As many as 200 people including farmers, cotton growers, ginners, scientists, field extension workers of the agriculture department of the provincial governments are likely to attend the day-long event to learn the use of organic fertilizers for the production of nutritious staple
food crops like cotton, wheat, rice, sugarcane and maize.
Moving south into the transition zone, cassava and yam begin to replace maize as the major
food crops and livestock production becomes less important.
It's possible to grow both a
food crop and a cover crop in the same bed at the same time.
In addition, our results have shown that cerium dioxide NPs in soil can be taken up by
food crops and are not biotransformed in soybeans, meaning that NPs can reach the food chain.
The cover crops will grow slowly under the existing canopy; then come on strong when the
food crop has been removed.
Some of the shortcomings in harnessing these neglected
food crop species to feed the world's poor are based on sheer ignorance.
For this reason the present study is mainly interested in its first phase to understand the determinants of agricultural output in Pakistan's four major provinces and to depict the role of climatic variables and extreme events on the
food crop yields in Pakistan.
But it appears to a big setback for the initiatives to commercialise India's first GM
food crop.
The Agriculture Ministry is proposing limiting foreign investment share to 49% in companies operating in
food crop sector to guarantee food supplies for domestic market.
Not only is pennycress not used for food, it can be grown in between
food crop growing seasons.
It costs $100,000 to add just one
food crop to an existing pesticide's registration.
2 million people, many of whom rely on potatoes as their staple
food crop.
