With the increasing food demands of a growing world population, it is essential to increase agricultural production while reducing its environmental footprint. Crop diversification techniques have ...
Intercropping wheat with a pulse can improve grain protein levels in a low nitrogen input system, but only in certain seasons ...
The Diverfarming project analysed the nutrients and changes in the soil microbial community in the first year of intercropping melon and cowpea with reduced fertilisation Intercropping is an ...
Intercropping is an old practice, where two or more crops are grown at the same time on a single field. This farming practice was very popular before the 1940’s in the USA. But with mechanization and ...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is likely to introduce an intercropping system in coming years by following a Chinese model in an effort to protect its vital cotton crop from leaf curl virus attack. The ...
Intercropping, whereby more than one crop is cultivated in a field at the same time, has proved beneficial in Africa and Asia. Now researchers are investigating its potential to improve sustainable ...
ISLAMABAD: A team of young Pakistani agricultural scientists at the National Research Center of Intercropping (NRCI), the Islamia University of Bahawalpur (IUB) are researching on strip intercropping ...
ISLAMABAD: “Rather than creating new/dedicated cultivation window for soybean production, the existing area under cultivation of sugarcane and maize bears the potential to produce up to 2.7 million ...
BAHAWALPUR, Aug. 31 (China Economic Net) - China's maize-soybean strip intercropping technology completed harvest at 65 demonstration sites in Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa recently, and the ...
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