Crop Programme Articles & Analysis
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While low rainfall has helped to keep septoria disease pressure low, 2025 also saw changes in the yellow rust population, with AHDB reporting unusual early observations on several winter wheat varieties in Recommended Lists (RL) trials. This has presented significant challenges in managing winter wheat crops, says ADAS Senior Research Scientist Chloe Francis. The 2024-25 growing ...
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Southern Africa has adopted UAVs to collect data as a critical part of successful breeding programme. Mainassara Abdou Zaman-Allah, maize physiologist at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Southern Africa regional office in Zimbabwe, says using UAVs has facilitated instant data ...
Calcium is a key component in many crop nutrition programmes. Providing sufficient levels of calcium strengthens and stabilises cell walls, helping crops build natural resistance to pests and common disorders such as Internal Rust Spot in potatoes, Cavity Spot in carrots and Tip Burn in lettuce. In addition to cell wall structure, its role in ...
Farmers’ and growers’ confidence in digestate and compost has been given a welcome boost, as new ground-breaking research published today, shows smart use of these renewable fertilisers can increase yields and reduce bills with no negative impact on crop quality or safety. The programme of field experiments, ‘Digestate & ...
It negatively affects crop yields and causes global annual losses of between $11 and $26 (€9.82 and €23.22) billion in the agricultural sector. Some horticultural crops, including tomatoes, are especially sensitive to ozone. As the reproductive development (i.e. flower and fruit development) of a plant is a critical part of its life cycle, anything ...
Sweet pepper and other greenhouse crops The first generation market ready sweet pepper harvesting robot will open a new high tech commercial area. ...
In addition, Member States must establish incentives to encourage professional users to implement crop or sector-specific guidelines on a voluntary basis. However, despite legislation, there is likely to be a period of transition before crop-specific IPM strategies are available and adopted by all farmers. ...
Even in the UK, for example, tests suggest that soils are becoming depleted of micronutrients, although not yet by enough to limit crop yields. Furthermore, intensification of agriculture often means that livestock rearing and crop production take place in different areas, as often happens in the UK. Potentially valuable sources of nutrients for ...
Chidambaram pledged continued support for bringing the ‘green revolution’ to eastern India, but also stressed the need for crop diversification to avoid problems such as stagnating yield and over-exploitation of water, associated with India’s original green revolution of the 1960s. The minister announced a US$ 91.96 million programme of ...
Part of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Environment, the Department’s increasing involvement in climate change and gathering environmental data, as well as its on-going crop insurance programme against drought, has led it to place an order to add to the number of Casella units currently in use. ...
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African farmers who lose their seeds in floods and droughts could restore their crop biodiversity quicker by trading local seed varieties at markets and through informal social links than by receiving seeds from aid agencies, a study suggests. The genetic diversity of crops allows plant populations to adapt to changing environments and provides the raw materials ...
For most donors, crop diversification is a crucial means of "improving the nutritional status of a society wedded to maize". But competing interests and views about crop diversification in relation to food security made it difficult to turn the promise of crop diversification into reality. ...
Many wild plants are becoming extinct because of climate change and habitat destruction — the UN Food and Agriculture Organization estimates three quarters of crop biodiversity has disappeared in the last century alone. The project will aim to conserve crops' genetic history in the hope of introducing beneficial wild traits into plant breeding ...
The recent Pakistan floods have caused substantial damage to the country's crop research, washing away new seed varieties and test crops planted in the fields, and damaging buildings and equipment, leaving the country's research institutes in disrepair. ...
The NFU has submitted a list of 45 recommendations for alterations as part of its submission on the proposals, which it estimates will cost farmers hundreds of millions of pounds while doing little to improve the environment and causing other environmental problems as a result, such as the increased risks to soils, air and water of applying manures in the late winter and spring and an increase in ...