"It's totally pointless to promote the plantation of forests, if you cannot assure that that forest is going to be protected," Graca says. Many of these forests unfortunately succumb to wildfires or are cut down for timber. Carbon sinks, however, could prove effective and not just in ...
Crop production, including mushroom farming, may cause significant changes to the underlying substrates which in turn, can influence crop quality and quantity during subsequent years. Here in this study, we analyzed the production of the medicinal mushroom Ganoderma lingzhi and the associated soil micro...
The soil size particle composition was measured using a laser particle-size analyzer. The cumulative frequency curves of the soil PSDs in the four plantations are shown in Fig.1. The figure shows that when the cumulative distribution frequency of the soil particle size reached 50%, the particle...
This article gives an overview of the widely distributed herb ribwort plantain ( Plantago lanceolata ). Currently, this plant is mostly grown in grasslands, rarely in arable land, and its secondary metabolites are used in medicine. Studies cited in the a
Asia Plantation Capital (APC) is the owner and operator of a diverse range of commercial plantation and farming businesses across theAsia-Pacificregion and around the world, and is part of the Asia Plantation Capital Group of associat...
Basilan IslandCoffee plantation, Basilan Island, Philippines. The alluvial plains andterracesof Luzon and Mindoro have dark black cracking clays, as well as younger soils that are especially suitable forricecultivation. Much of the land of the hilly and mountainous regions consists of moist, fertile...
Intensive farming is prone to soil erosion, dehumification (losing stable aggregates and organic matter), and anthropogenic soil acidification [14]. In Uttarakhand, India, the monoculture farming of black soils has a destructive impact on soil health, production potency, water pollution, land ...
Similarly, in the context of oil palm plantation classification in Sumatra, Indonesia, GLCM texture features derived from synthetic aperture SAR data were synergistically amalgamated with radar and optical imagery for superior classification outcomes [35]. Moreover, tasseled cap (TC) [25] and spectral...
A number of other companies are reporting that they do this using various methods across different commodities – fromSime Darby Plantation, which has launched Open Palm, an onlinedashboardthat provides critical information on the traceability of its supply chain, toAsia Pulp and Paper, which h...
Similarly, in the context of oil palm plantation classification in Sumatra, Indonesia, GLCM texture features derived from synthetic aperture SAR data were synergistically amalgamated with radar and optical imagery for superior classification outcomes [35]. Moreover, tasseled cap (TC) [25] and spectral...