Livestock including cows, sheep and goats do not come to heat due to lack of hormones and proper nutrition. Inductions of heat by chemical hormone is costly, and their residues can be seen in milk and meat, which can be hazardous. Livestock can be induced to heat by phytohormones. There...

Over the past few decades, some countries in Asia have been more successful than others in addressing poverty and malnutrition. The key question is what policies, strategies, legislation and institutional arrangements have led to a transformed agricultural sector, effectively contributing to poverty alleviation and addressing malnutrition. The great majority of...

The initiative is located in Central India, encompassing the Vidarbha District and the adjoining districts of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Dietary-based anemia is a widespread problem, especially amongst young women. The area is facing an acute agrarian crisis. One of its causes is climate change and the increasingly unpredictable monsoon...

El modelo productivo presenta una gran variedad de formas biológicas representadas por la presencia de microflora, microfauna, mesofauna y macrofauna. Son responsables de la dinámica y la transformación de la materia orgánica y mejoramiento de propiedades físicas del suelo, como la infiltración del agua y la aireación de los suelos,...

The mission of the Voluntary Association of Agricultural General Development Health and Reconstruction Alliance in India (VAAGDHARA) is to create and nurture vibrant institutions of poor and tribal peoples in Western India so that they have sustainable livelihoods through scientific, indigenous and appropriate knowledge and technologies and their children are well educated...

La acacia amarilla (Acacia decurrens) es una especie arbórea que se encuentra distribuida en el Altiplano Cundiboyacense (Uribe et al., 2011). Es utilizada como suplemento alimenticio para el ganado, por lo cual se tuvo la iniciativa de aislar rizobios nativos como herramienta biotecnológica para mejorar la calidad del forraje. Teniendo...

Chronic diarrhoea in grazing animals is common in tropical livestock. Infection by bacteria and virus lead to diarrhoea. Use of antibiotics is costly and has residual effects through milk and meat. The traditional use of Chebulic myrobalan (Terminali chebula) along with curd from cow or goat milk is an effective...

Gramínea forrajera con adaptación a las condiciones de la región Caribe de Colombia. Alta producción y calidad nutricional del forraje y mayor preferencia animal. Agrosavia Sabanera presenta floración temprana y alta producción de semilla viable, lo que permite una mayor cobertura del suelo. En el departamento de Córdoba la producción...

The organic coat protects your seed from birds and insects, and gives the young seedlings extra moisture and nutrients. You can also sow coated seeds much earlier, before the rains start. 

El desarrollo del modelo sostenible contempla el uso de recursos genéticos localmente adaptados, como la raza criolla Romosinuano. El valor productivo y genético del ganado Romosinuano, al utilizarlo en cruzamiento con ganado Brahman comercial, mejora los índices de productividad en la ganadería del Caribe colombiano. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial...

Cardamom root grub (Basilepta fulvicorne: Chrysomelidae) is a major pest damaging roots of small cardamom (Elettariacardamomum Maton) causing 29 to 66 percent crop loss under various levels of infestation. Chemical control with agrochemicals viz. Chlorpyrifos and Phorate, though help in managing the pest, repeated application of such chemicals is deleterious to...

The Pulicaro farm is located in Tuscia Viterbese, between Orvieto and Lake Bolsena, Italy. It occupies an area of 33 hectares divided between forest and farmland associated with poultry and livestock. It is an integrated management system designed to manage many aspects. It focuses on agroecology, intercropping and sustainable practices...

In Africa, agricultural Gross Domestic Product (GDP) accounts for more than 20 percent of the total GDP. The farmers’ income is mainly from the farming industry, and it accounts for more than 80 percent of total household income. However, despite Africa’s plentiful agricultural resources, the continent still faces serious food...

Smallholder Horticulture Empowerment and Promotion (SHEP) Approach is an extension and advisory approach, aiming to help farmers to access and benefit from markets by changing their mindset from “Grow and Sell” to “Grow to Sell”.   It was developed through the technical cooperation project in Kenya and managed to double the...

Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) is both a technical practice and community development approach used to support local communities to restore their natural environment through the systematic pruning and management of remnant vegetation in agricultural, pastoral and communal land. The practice involves thinning the shoots from tree stumps or wild...

Irrigation has been a key component of agricultural intensification and transformation in Asia and has the potential to take on the same role in Sub-Saharan Africa. Irrigation has contributed to increased food production, lower food prices, higher rural employment, and overall agricultural and economic growth. At the same time, irrigation—through...

This practice describes the step-by-step approach to promote conservation agriculture implemented in Timor-Leste. It also describes the conservation agriculture (CA) principles and steps in adopting the CA package. After several years of promoting CA in Timor-Leste by various actors, the adoption of the CA package is rarely fully implemented by farmers....

Un elemento importante en el presente trabajo fue dilucidar el potencial del uso de microorganismos promotores del crecimiento vegetal como una alternativa para mejorar la producción y sostenibilidad de los sistemas ganaderos en el Caribe seco colombiano. 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/

Se pretendió hacer más eficiente la nutrición de las plantas del cultivo de tomate, bajo condiciones de invernadero, por medio de la aplicación a las plantas del biofertilizante, para reducir la fertilización edáfica nitrogenada de síntesis química. 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/

Construcciones urbanas son en reiteradas ocasiones el hogar de familias de abejas que buscan un lugar donde vivir, generando gran inquietud o malestar de los vecinos quienes en ocasiones incurren en prácticas como eliminarlas con insecticidas o tapar el orificio por el que se les ve entrando, ambas prácticas no...