The land for agricultural uses has been reduced due to rapid urbanisation, dwindling water resources, erosion, salinity and degradation of soil fertility levels. This has led to indiscriminate use of ...
MR. DYKE is well known to horticulturists as a man with a strong scientific bent, and by those men of science who are interested in large-scale crop production he is recognised as possessing a ...
THE growing inadequacy in the supplies of farmyard manure throughout the world has put a premium on the importance of green manuring, and much attention is being paid to the most profitable ...
THE GOOD news for farmers contemplating subsoil manuring is that it definitely works, the bad news is that it still remains expensive.
After harvesting wheat, progressive farmers in Ambala have started gro-wing dhaincha (sesbania bi-spinosa) for green manuring nd leguminous moong (gre-en gram) to increase soil fer-tility before ...
Field and pot fertilization experiments on foxtail millet and common millet further suggest that the millet grain δ15N values can serve as reliable indicators of manuring practices, and the ...
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The land for agricultural uses has been reduced due to rapid urbanisation, dwindling water resources, erosion, salinity and degradation of soil fertility levels. This has led to indiscriminate use of ...
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