The land for agricultural uses has been reduced due to rapid urbanisation, dwindling water resources, erosion, salinity and degradation of soil fertility levels. This has led to indiscriminate use of ...

RICE-BASED agriculture is the backbone of food security. Among the three major rice varieties, aman occupies a special ...

Last autumn, I carefully cultivated a heap of seeds within a new garden bed, only to hack these fledgling plants down to the ground just a few weeks later – and deliberately let them all rot away.

The experiment consisted of a typical high-yield cropping system, with a 150 cm wide strip of both wheat and maize in the intercropping system. For green manure treatment, hairy vetch was sown ...

How to boost your soil with an easy to grow solution. Green manures are ideal whenever a patch of land is going to be free of crops for six weeks or more, and they are particularly useful to vegetable ...

THE growing inadequacy in the supplies of farmyard manure throughout the world has put a premium on the importance of green manuring, and much attention is being paid to the most profitable ...

Bare soil in winter makes me want to cry, but I understand why people do it: a perfectly dug allotment, all neat and tidy, suggests so much. It looks orderly and cared for, and says we're in control.

A.P. government allocates ₹62.20 crore for green manure seed distribution to enhance soil health and promote sustainable ...

Farmers in Sonarai village in Domar upazila are gradually adopting an environment-friendly procedure to enrich their farmland for a better yield of crops by growing dhaincha, a green bushy plant.

Green manures are ideal whenever a patch of land is going to be free of crops for six weeks or more, and they are particularly useful to vegetable gardeners and allotment holders. Although many green ...