Healthy, uniform nursery seedlings are the foundation to productive and sustainable cropping systems. Yet, high-quality coir pith pro-tray media — free of salts, phytotoxins and enriched with microbiota — remains scarce at scale. It suffers from inherent limitations such as high...
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Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) states that “If it is not safe, it is not food”, as it does not serve its purpose to provide proper and safe nutrition. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reiterates that Sustainable Agriculture that seeks to increase yield...
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The objective of Organic farming is to achieve crop sustainability through restoration of soil dynamics, improvement of plant health through improvement of the soil - plant interactions, nourishment of the environmental resistance and reducing pest interferences. Lack of scientif...
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The increasing demand for organic cereals especially indigenous scented rice varieties in the recent years has peaked farmers’ interest towards its organic production. However, the threat of crop loss under organic cultivation has been holding back large scale initiatives. Inhana...
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Increased emission of greenhouse gases with enhanced industrialization, urbanization and conventional agriculture has accelerated the climate change which poses a fundamental threat to the environment, biodiversity and peoples’ livelihoods. Moreover, targeting higher crop product...
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