After that, his farmland in Ninga, a village in the Commune of Gihanga, increased from half a hectare to five hectares, and the yield per hectare also tripled. "I want to buy more land, more cows and several new water pumps when the dry season comes," said Ngendakumana. This was ...
The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant by showing what the future of farming could look like.
To a townie, some of it seems extraordinarily simple: a hectare of irrigated ryegrass, for example, needs around a quarter of a tonne of nitrogen fertiliser every year, while lucerne needs none. There’s a growing pool of livestock genetics on tap to breed animals, especially cows, that pro...
e.g.is a very water intensive crop,using twice as much water per hectare as wheat(FAO 200 1).When farmers decide to switch from rice cultivation to any so called upland crop,this will save substantial amounts of water.But the cultivation of less water demanding ...
In some countries, they are also used to treat bacterial diseases in plants and to protect crops.2 Many common medical procedures, including hip replacements and organ transplants would become far more dangerous, and potentially deadly without them.3 What are antibiotics? Antibiotics are drugs ...
At first I was focusing on crops in Belgium, which is where I live, although of course many of these crops are also grown in other areas of western Europe and indeed other parts of the world. But so popular has this post become that I have extended it to crops grown elsewhere in the...
local indigenous communities could also take extra steps to protect young trees from fires or grazing cows, but might not necessarily need to actively plant and maintain trees. “What we’re trying to do is think about how do you tap into nature’s potential to restore on its ...
COULD U PLS TELL HOW MANY KG/HA OF MAIZE SEEDS I WOULD NEED TO PLANT THE FARM. SECONDLY, WHAT COULD BE THE EXPECTED YIELD PER ANNUAL PER HECTARE FOR A OIL PALM PLANTATION Selemani Zumo said on March 16, 2012 It is the first time to me to look at this website about maize an ...
There are approximately 3.5 billion hectares of grazing land on earth. If—and this is a big if—we could store justoneton of additional carbon per hectare annually over all 3.5 billion hectares, then we would be able to draw down just about the same amount of carbon we emit each year ...
Work is one of the main inputs in agriculture. It can be performed by humans, animals, or machinery. Studies have shown strong differences throughout the world in labour required to produce a kilogram of food. We complement this line of research by linki