A Basic Guide To Water Soluble Fertilizers
Created on Thursday, 10 May 2012
Written by http://www.essortment.com
A basic guide to water soluble fertilizers. Including information pertaining to it's contents and usages, as well as, how what's on the label can differ from what's inside. Water soluble fertilizers are fertilizers that can be dissolved in water and added or leached out of the soil easily. With water soluble fertilizers it is easy to control the precise amount of nutrients available to your plants
10 tips for better crop spraying
Created on Thursday, 10 May 2012
Written by Gene Johnston
Spraying pesticides on your fields is one of those jobs where the margin for error is pretty narrow, both in terms of accomplishing the mission and protecting neighboring fields. Mark Hanna, Iowa State University Extension agricultural engineer offers these 10 tips for more effective and safe spraying. 1. Small drops take time to hit target. A tiny droplet 100 microns in diameter (about the diamet
Introduction to Organic Farming
Created on Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Written by http://www.infonet-biovision.org
Organic farming is a form of agriculture that relies on crop rotation, green manure, compost, biological pest control, andmechanical cultivationto maintain soil productivity and control pests, excluding or strictly limiting the use of syntheticfertilizers and syntheticpesticides, plant growth regulators, livestock feed additives, and genetically modified organisms. Since 1990 the market for organ
Soil structure in Pakistan
Created on Sunday, 01 July 2012
Written by Soil Science By A. Rashid
Aridity as a factor. The formation of structure is inhibited in many areas of Pakistan. The most important limiting factor is aridity, especially from Multan southward. In these areas the moisture required for structure forma- tion is obtained mainly from river or canal flooding. Thus the degree of soil development in this zone is not a measure of age but of the period during which it was under se
Sewage sludge and organic composts
Created on Monday, 11 June 2012
Written by Ahmad Mahmood, Department of Agronomy, Pir Mehr Ali Shah-Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi
Sludge refers to the residual, semi-solid material left from industrial waste water or sewage treatment processes. It is a mixture of water and solids separated from various types of water as a result of natural or artificial processes.Sewage sludge: sludge from urban waste water treatment plants, whereby ‘urban waste water’ is understood as: “domestic waste water or the mixture of domestic waste water
Fertilizing Roses
Created on Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Written by http://www.ag.ndsu.edu
Proper fertilization will help you roses produce more and larger blooms and will shorten the rest periods between flurries of bloom. A complete fertilizer relatively high in phosphate but not too high in nitrogen makes a good rose food. Well-rotted manure also is a good fertilizer. Because this material decompose slowly, you should supplement them with an all purpose fertilizer or with one of the
Proper use of fertiliser increases overall production
Created on Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Written by Shaukat Masood Zafar
Soil testing is the only way to determine the available nutrient status in soil or soil-less media and the only way a farmer can develop specific fertilizer recommendations. Periodic soil testing combined with a good record-keeping system for each field (including information on prior soil tests, fertilizer and manure applications, and crop yields) serves as a gauge to indicate.. Soil testing i
Bacteria Can 'Fertilize' Copper-Polluted Soil
Created on Sunday, 09 October 2011
Written by ScienceDaily
Now, however, Ramakrishna Wusirika's research team may have discovered how to make plants grow in the mine-waste desert and soak up some copper while they are at it. Wusirika, a biological sciences professor at Michigan Technological University, began his research using several species of Pseudomonas bacteria from the sediments of Torch Lake. In the region's copper-mining heyday, the lake was used
MAJOR CULTIVARS OF COTTON IN PAKISTAN
Created on Tuesday, 15 May 2012
Written by Rameez Hassan, Muhammad Waqas Azam, Ahmad Mahmood
3. SARMAST (S-59-1): This cultivar was also evolved in ARI, Tandojam (Sindh). It was released in 1975 particularly for the Khairpur and Sukkar districts of Sindh. Its yield and other qualities are similar to that o Qallandri. 4. NIAB-86 : It was developed at the Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology (NIAB, Faisalabad. It was approved in 1990 for general cultivation in Pakistan. It is a hi
Objectives of cultivar improvement
Created on Friday, 08 June 2012
Written by Crop Production By Mr. Shafi Nazir
Breeders and agronomists have certain objectives in mind for crop improvement These objectives are to: Evolve cuItivars with increased yield by obtaining the optimum combination of yield components such as number of reproductive units per unit area, number of seeds per reproductive unit, and weight per seed. Tailor crop maturity to fit crops into the cropping sequence or span of favorable enviro
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