Role Of Agroforestry In Soil Conservation

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Farmers have always been practicing agroforestry, growing trees on their land; some with no doubt have knowledgeable ideas that growing trees play crucial roles in soil and water conservation. The main components of agroforestry systems are trees and shrubs, crops, pastures, and livestock, together with the environmental factors of climate, soils, and landforms. Other components … Read more

Hormones Used In Plant Tissue Culture & Micropropagation

Plant tissue culture or micropropagation is an innovation to produce plants from its miniature part under an intensive care platform where all the physiological growth parameters of the plant are induced using synthetic materials such as plant hormones. Synthetic plant hormones or PGRs are used different means of plant propagation from cuttings, grafting, micropropagation, and tissue culture. There are stages for every development in plants; there is a time from leaves and branches developments, root development, flowering, and fruit settings; all these can be artificially induced during tissue culture using certain plant hormones.  

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Micropropagation of Banana Tissue Culture

Banana is a succulent tropical fruit. Edible bananas do not produce seeds and are propagated vegetatively through suckers. A banana or plantain stand usually have about 7-10 suckers in a year; natural regeneration is slow. Most of banana and plantain production is in backyards or small scale farms for consumption. Suckers obtained are often infected … Read more

Africa’s Coffee Farmers are Losing Billions to Exploitation

Millions of Africa’s coffee farmers have slipped into abject poverty caused by poor prices which are currently barely enough to cover production costs while the rest of the coffee supply chain players enjoy rising profits. The African farmer produces some fine quality coffee, but receives the lowest prices of all growers, globally. African coffee farmers … Read more

Integrated Pest Management For Corn

You might have just established your farm with numerous stands of corn (Zea mays), beautiful! As there is going to be great profit either commercially or for local consumption, but just as it is necessary to observe the daily routine maintenance of your maize farm land for maximum harvest, it’s also mandatory to implement IPM against those enemies of yours (pests, insects and diseases). IPM in corn is one of the techniques to control pests in a maize farm; it is the use of two or more pest control methods to eradicate or reduce the population of pests in a maize farm to achieve a cost-effecrtive result.

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Land Preparation For Planting Pasture

Pasture is a piece of land where community of plant species are growing together and producing herbage for feeding ruminant animals. Pasture lands are enclosed tracts of farmland, grazed by domesticated livestock, such as horses, cattle, sheep, or swine. The vegetation of tended pasture, forage, consists mainly of grasses, with an interspersion of legumes and … Read more

Botanical Names Of Ayurvedic Medicinal Plants

Medicinal plants have evolved over the centuries as essential parts of African civilization and are widely recognized today as representing its rich cultural and scientific heritage. The increasing demand for medicinal plant products has renewed interest in the pharmaceutical industry in the production of herbal health care formulations, herbal-based cosmetic products, and herbal nutritional supplements.

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Land Preparation Techniques For Planting Cassava

 Cassava (Manihot esculenta),  is one of the most popular and widely consumed food crops in Nigeria   which is also known as a woody perennial plant . Cassava is native to South America introduced to Africa by the Portuguese in the year 1958 through the Congo basin, has since gained acceptance in Africa and this plays … Read more

Land Preparation: Tools Used, Objectives, Importance & More

Land preparation is the essential and the costliest operation in farming; the cost of getting tools and equipment used in land preparation accounts for about 30 percent of the total cost of cultivation. Land preparation involves surface clearing, soil opening with deep tillage equipment, moving soil from high to low spots, making farm roads, leveling, … Read more