What is Deficit Irrigation

What is Deficit Irrigation?

Deficit irrigation is an agricultural strategy of limited water use, applying it in vulnerable growth stages. Many reasons lead to this strategy by farmers. Climate change has affected many areas […]

what is Waterlogging

What is water logging?

Waterlogging is the ground’s condition of complete saturation with water and the disappearance of the gaseous phase. The saturation of the soil depends on its granule composition, its depth, the […]

What is evapotranspiration (ET)

What is evapotranspiration (ET)?

Evapotranspiration = evaporation (the movement of water, direct conversion of water into vapor, from the earth’s surface into the atmosphere) + transpiration (the vaporization of the liquid water contained in […]

value-added products

What are the value-added products?

Value-adding entails transforming an agricultural (raw) product into a more valuable one that can be sold at higher prices and have a more extended storage life. Processing and packaging of […]

what are the cash crops

Which are the cash crops?

Cash or profit crops are the crops farmers grow to sell the production in the market for profit. Some typical examples are: cereals, oilseeds, coffee, cotton, cocoa, sugar cane, etc. […]

What is food security

What is food security?

Food security is based on 3 pillars: Sufficiency, Accessibility Affordability In the past, food security was unstable because of the inability to cope with plant pathogens (Irish Potato Famine, 1845-1852), […]

What are agrivoltaics?

What are agrivoltaics?

Agrivoltaics is the system/practice of the simultaneous use of land for photovoltaics/solar panels installation (or other means of collecting solar energy) and agricultural activity. Agricultural activity can be either growing […]

What is circular bioeconomyagriculture

What is circular bioeconomy/agriculture?

Circular agriculture is a modern agricultural management concept that has as a main principle the optimization of use of all biomass and resources and, as a result, reducing waste. The […]

Herbicide Resistance

What is Herbicide Resistance (HR) ?

Herbicide resistance (HR) is the selected, heritable ability of some weed biotypes to survive the application of the recommended dose of a herbicide to which the original population of the […]

How can we produce biofuels in agriculture

How can we produce biofuels in agriculture?

Biofuels are fuels that are produced by humans using organic matter. Biofuels are considered renewable because of their production source. The most common biofuels are biodiesel, bioethanol (liquids), and biogas […]