This booklet describes FAO's work and efforts in plant production and protection. The publication includes highlights on the importance of plant production and protection and its contribution to Sustainable Development Goals and FAO Strategic Framework 2022–31. The booklet will also include an overview of FAO's Plant Production and Protection Division...

Honeybee viruses are important threats for honeybee health. However, there are no effective agents to prevent and control honeybee viruses. In association with the proper Varroa management and control, a suitable thermal insulation of the beehive and keeping the beehive dry and insulated can reduce the outbreak and development of...

En el trópico bajo se han identificado tres tipos de productores de carne ovina por medio de la metodología de diagnóstico para la tipificación de los sistemas productivos. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate WhastApp Noticias científicas AGROMETRICS CRIS AGROSAVIA: https://vivo.agrosavia.co/

Comprende el desarrollo de actividades orientadas a facilitar el acceso a los conocimientos, ofertas y servicios tecnológicos y productos desarrollados para el sector agropecuario colombiano.

La inversión enzimática de la sacarosa en el jugo de caña prelimpiado, antes de iniciar la clarificación en la hornilla, permite mantener la línea de producción. Contrariamente, la inversión de la miel de caña, interrumpe la etapa final de concentración. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate WhastApp Noticias científicas AGROMETRICS CRIS...

¿Cuál es la importancia de la ganadería en Colombia? ¿Cuáles son los grandes retos que enfrenta la ganadería convencional? ¿Quiénes vienen investigando y promoviendo en este tipo de sistemas? Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate WhastApp Noticias científicas AGROMETRICS CRIS AGROSAVIA: https://vivo.agrosavia.co/

Complex rice systems (CRSs) are integrated agricultural systems that combine azolla (aquatic ferns), fish, ducks and border plants into rice production systems to augment ecological processes of nutrient recycling, weed and pest suppression, and replace agrochemicals that are harmful to human, animals and environment. Moreover, CRSs could foster ecosystem services...

Rural women across the world work along agri-food value chains performing numerous agricultural operations. Their work is increasingly affected by land degradation, climate change impacts and out-migration. It is often unrecognized, unqualified and unpaid. Moreover, the traditional division of labour often relegates women to manual, time-consuming operations with high degrees...

Árboles multiproposito, árboles maderables, estrato arbustivo, estrato herbáceo Fuente principal Modelo productivo sistemas silvopastoriles de estratos múltiples para el sistema de producción bovina doble propósito en la región Caribe de Colombia  

El sistema maíz- soya requiere una rotación alterna de variedades de soya e híbridos de maíz, adecuada y oportuna, en función del recurso hídrico disponible y del ciclo de cultivo. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate WhastApp Noticias científicas AGROMETRICS CRIS AGROSAVIA: https://vivo.agrosavia.co/

De acuerdo con las formas de aprovechamiento y las funciones de cada uno de sus componentes, los arreglos silvopastoriles se clasifican en diferentes tipos. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate WhastApp Noticias científicas AGROMETRICS CRIS AGROSAVIA: https://vivo.agrosavia.co/

Desmodium is a legume that is commonly used as a protein supplement in dairy cattle, with many farmers growing it to cut production costs. The crop has numerous varieties but the most common are greenleaf and silverleaf. The legume can be intercropped with napier grass and maize to help control stemborer...

The Agricultural University of Athens has undertaken the initiative for the inscription of the element “Local and indigenous agricultural varieties: knowledge and practices” on the National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Greece, in collaboration with Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources – Greek Gene Bank of the Hellenic Agricultural Organisation...

Cette fiche technique décrit les résultats d’une analyses coûts/bénéfices de l’introduction de bandes végétales/rampes vivantes dans les cultures de pois, dans les municipalités de Bainet et Grand Goave, à Haïti. Cette pratique atténue l’érosion des sols via une diminution de la vitesse d’écoulement de l’eau et une favorisation de son...

Assessing or understanding the Agricultural Innovation System (AIS) is an essential step to better understand the needs, new skills and functions needed by the actors and the system. To accelerate the uptake of innovation and progress towards eradicating poverty, there is an urgent need for well-coordinated, demand-driven and market-oriented information,...

This homestead pond polyculture practice takes a nutrition and gender sensitive approach. Micronutrient-rich small fish are incorporated into the homestead pond. With regular harvest, these small fish are consumed by household members, most importantly by pregnant women, lactating mothers, adolescent girls, and children, to mitigate micronutrient malnutrition. To maximize the...

The CORE Organic Final Research Seminar, co-organised by TP Organics, took place on 17-18 May 2022 at University Foundation in Brussels and was attended by around 60 participants. Some more people joined the hybrid sessions on Day 2 online. The event served both to close the Cofund period (with ERA-NETs...

What does digitalisation mean from the perspectives of a diversified, dairy family farm in rural Japan? For more than three generations, the Sudo Family has adapted their farm to the challenges and opportunities of working and living in the southern tip of the Bōsō Peninsula of Japan, Chiba Prefecture. As...

The global banana industry is threatened by one of the most devastating diseases: Fusarium wilt (FWB). FWB is caused by the soil-borne fungus Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc), which almost annihilated the banana production in the late 1950s. A new strain of Foc, known as tropical race 4 (TR4),...

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