About 1,000 farmers from across the State will be trained as 'plant doctors' at a three-day training beginning Thursday, in Chitradurga.
The programme, funded by the Agriculture Department and the Bio-control Research Laboratories (BCRL) and supported by the Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International (CABI), aims to create a pool of plant health workers to run 72 independent, community-b
Late blight, a fungal disease, has attacked the potato crop in Punjab, which is a major producer of tuber crop in the country, raising fear of damage to the crop.
According to a survey conducted by Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), late blight, causes huge loss to crop yield, which appears in isolated fields of potato plantation in Hoshiarpur district.
THOUGH it was announced at the end of last year, that Sri Lanka would import millions of coconuts from Kerala to make up for a shortage of this essential cooking ingredient, it is now learnt that there may be no imports from Kerala because of fears that the dreaded
The spread of yellow leaf disease in the areca farms of the taluk has forced the farmers to desert the village and move to other places in search of livelihood.
An areca farm affected by yellow leaf disease at Hulugaradi of Koppa taluk. (Right) The remains of Subba Bhat
Baobabs (Adansonia spp.) are iconic trees, known for their immense size, strange forms, sources of food and as the subjects of myths and mysteries. It is thus surprising that little is known regarding the fungi that infect these trees. During a survey to determine which wound infecting fungi occur on baobabs, synnematous structures were observed and Graphium-like isolates were obtained. Culture characteristics and micro-morphology, together with DNA sequence comparisons for the SSU rRNA, rRNA-ITS and TEF-1α gene regions were used to characterise these fungi.
Florida's orange groves are still shrinking as the state battles the tree-killing citrus greening disease and farmers sell their land, the annual Department of Agriculture census showed on Thursday.
The number of commercial orange trees and total acreage devoted to orange groves have steadily shrunk over the last five years in Florida, which accounts for two-thirds of U.S.
The problem may be specific to this year alone because of extraordinary circumstances, but it is new phenomenon that has alarmed official circles. It may also cause reduction of 10 to 15 per cent production in the affected acres.
China has tremendous climatic and ecological diversity, so the impacts of climate change on natural and managed systems might likewise be expected to be diverse. Yet so far systematic studies have been rare. Here, the impacts of historical and future climate change on water resources and agriculture in China are assessed.
Lantana is a rapidly growing obnoxious weed though it has potential of purposeful utilization. Preservation of bamboo during storage with the help of preservative of natural origin i.e. Lantana extract may result in saving of material.
PESHAWAR (June 09 2010): Fruit orchards in district Peshawar have been hit by a mysterious disease leaving the plants dry, inflicting heavy financial losses on the farmers of the area.
