An experience sharing meeting on Australian origin hybrid Sweet Jumbo grass farming for farmers was held in remote char village of Bozra Diarkhata under Chilmari upazila in Kurigram on Sunday.

Planned green grass plantation on roadsides, embankments and fallow lands can meet much of the fodder requirement that is vital to boost milk and meat production in the country, agricultural experts said yesterday.

Facing a lake covered by low-lying clouds, spiritual leader Arwa Viku burns leaves hoping that the smoke will carry his message, his voice mixing with the sound of waves lapping the grass-lined shore.

Here in mountainous central Colombia, Viku's Arhuaca Indian tribe is concerned that the country's water supply is being threatened by an expanding unregulated agricultural sector.

Hubbardia Bor, a monospecific, critically endangered and endemic genus on the verge of extinction has been reintroduced and successfully restored in its natural home, the Western Ghats.

This study deals with the effects of grass buffer strips using Ophiopogon japonicus on reducing soil and nitrogen losses from fertilized plots and the evaluation of the trapping characteristics under different depth of surface water gathered.

The collapse of the Soviet Union had diverse consequences, not least the abandonment of crop cultivation in many areas. One result has been the vast accumulation of soil organic carbon in the areas affected.

At the current rate of use the crude oil reserves of the world are predicted to deplete in about 40 years. Therefore, it has become necessary to find and devise methods of processing a renewable raw material for conversion into transportation fuel. Some countries are manufacturing ethanol from sugarcane or cereal grains and blending it with petrol to reduce crude oil imports. This entails diverting agriculturally productive land for the production of fuel. An alternative is to use inedible

The value of grasses to mankind has been recognized since very early times. The Poaceae are one of the largest family of flowering plants, comprising some 10,000 species under approximately 896 genera. Intensive and extensive survey over the last 7 years on the grass flora, family Poaceae of North-western Rajasthan has yielded uncrecorded seven grasses genera from this region.

Integrating cover crops and green manures helps farmers rehabilitate degraded soils in highland areas. In Ecuador, farmers experimented with this conservation practice. They found that it improved their farming system in many ways: increased productivity in their main crop, decreased weeding time, provided them with an extra crop (for food, fodder, marketing), besides rehabilitating their soils.

The anticipated impacts of climate change on grassland systems and appropriate management responses have been reviewed extensively, though the emphasis has been on European temperate and North American rangeland systems.

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