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Balancing Chemical and Organic Fertilizers for Sustainable Agriculture

Balancing Chemical and Organic Fertilizers for Sustainable Agriculture

Strategies for Sustainable Soil Management: Balancing Organic and Chemical Approaches In modern agriculture, chemical fertilizers are crucial in enhancing crop yields. However, their excessive use can adversely affect soil health […]

Soil Health and Potato Yield Cultivating a Sustainable Future from the Ground Up

Soil Health and Potato Yield: Cultivating a Sustainable Future from the Ground Up

Introduction – Linking Soil Health & Potato Production The unassuming potato, a starchy tuber originating from the Andean highlands, has transcended geographical boundaries and cultural barriers to become one of […]

Solarization A Comprehensive Guide to an Eco-Friendly Soil Treatment

Solarization: A Comprehensive Guide to an Eco-Friendly Soil Treatment

What is solarization? Solarization is a technique for soil treatment using white, transparent plastic and the sun’s heat. This technique is useful for reducing the disease pressure (soil-borne pathogens and […]

Restoring and Maintaining Thriving Farmland Through Soil Health

Restoring and Maintaining Thriving Farmland through Soil Health

A Legacy of Loss: The Scars of Unsustainable Practices Imagine vast stretches of parched earth, choked by dust and devoid of life. This wasn’t a scene from a dystopian novel […]

Practices to adapt and cope with climate change

What practices and approaches should be adopted in agriculture to cope with climate change

Towards a resilient agriculture Agriculture is a sector that contributes to global warming and suffers its consequences but also offers opportunities for adaptation and mitigation. Agriculture’s ability to cope with […]

How to apply conservation tillage to protect soil fertility

How to apply conservation tillage to protect soil fertility

Reinventing the Arts of Tilling: A Modern to Traditional Perspective Again The soil is the most important of all resources of the agri-food sector, and it has its own life […]

Soil Management in Olive Farming

Soil Management in Olive Farming

The natural environment, the selection of a suitable field and locally adapted varieties, as well as the application of appropriate cultivation techniques are all factors affecting the fate and productivity […]