Making payments directly to farmers can encourage them to use fertilizer more wisely, thereby improving soil health, yields and the environment.#Making payments directly to farmers can encourage them to use fertilizer more wisely, thereby improving soil health, yields and the environment.doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03571-3Asim Bis...
India enacted a series of efforts to save tigers. For example, the government offers compensation to farmers or villagers who have been injured or suffered losses as the result of tiger activity in order to prevent retaliatory killings...
A Senior Agriculture Officer advises farmers on various products and evaluates the practices done to grow the crop and whether safety measures have been taken. Salary Description The estimated Senior Agriculture Officer salary in India ranges from Rs 2.2 Lakhs to Rs 6.0 Lakhs with an average ...
The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant by showing what the future of farming could look like.
Companies need to pay special attention to gaining the trust of farmers. Traditional farming practices have been developed over many generations; often the same family has worked the same land for hundreds of years. So it is understandable that farmers are skeptical of new technologies like data ...
The agricultural industry in India faces some problems. It's not as efficient as it could be. Millions of small farmers rely on monsoons for the water necessary for their crop production. Agricultural infrastructure isn't well developed so irrigation is sparse and agricultural production is at ris...
Why does that matter? Without a standard method of classification, there's no way to track how many people are affected or displaced by an environmental or climate event. So the most commonly used term is "environmental refugee." Experts credit the term and its definition to UN Environment ...
Farmers see a decrease of about 40 million metric tons of cereal grains like wheat, barley and corn each year. Scientists discovered that an increase of 1 degree Fahrenheit in average temperature results in a 3 to 5 percent drop in crop yields [Source: Science Daily]. Next, we'll find ...
I have visited coffee farmers in very remote areas in the north of Kalimantan. Their coffee is very good, but they can only sell it locally as it is too expensive for them to access wider markets. There are two things we could do to help—one, create easier access to markets, and, ...
“Starting the business took about seven months of research,” Sana says on arecentShopify Mastersepisode. She visited around 50 farms to understand the impact of the spice trade on local farmers—many of whom were receiving just a tiny fraction of the profits big corporations would get from ...