A safe and responsible approach to curbing pests and diseases starts with good garden practices. Good gardening practices, like building healthy soil,...
A Powerfully Sweet Native Tradition The Guarani Indians had known for centuries about the unique advantages of kaa he-he (a native term which translates as...
STEVIA Stevia rebaudiana Description Stevia is a tender perennial hardy in USDA Zones 9 and 10, or where temperatures do not fall below freezing. When grown as...
Stevia Herb This information is provided for educational purposes only. Medical advice is neither implied nor intended. Please consult a health professional...
Life With Stevia: How Sweet It Is! Nutritional and Medicinal Uses Daniel Mowrey, Ph.D. "Life with Stevia: How Sweet It Is!" was reprinted with permission of ...
Title : Organic agriculture Myths are not true! Introduction : Roger Bate's article in August 2000 issue of this magazine claimed that organic food production...
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ABOUT SAFED MUSLI CULTIVATION This write up is about high value agriculture for people who want to grow crops that can give them big incomes and not the...
Organic coconut farming Introduction : Chalsani dutt of Vijayawada with an investment of Rs.3,22,220 per hectare today receives a net income of Rs.38,600 per ...
New MBA in Agribusiness & Plantation Management The Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Plantation Management was established at the initiative of the Ministry...
New food processing machines Rajkote-based Hari Om Industries have introduced some revolutionary food processing machines which gives attractive returns to the...
Market for organic foods Introduction : Market for organic foods in US alone is $4,200 million. Here is excerpts from a seminar developed and held at Cochin in...
Myths about organic foods Introduction : According to a survey, British consumers prefer organic food because they believe it is produced without artificial ...
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Safed Musli farming -- Consultancy available Safed Musli is a medicinal plant that fetches a high price in the market. As high as even Rs. 1500 per kg is being...
Guide to Pomegranate cultivation Pomegranate is one of the most favourite fruits in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Iran and Afghanistan are ...
Organic compost manufacturing -- consultancy available. Karnataka Compost Development Corporation Ltd. based at Bangalore manufacturers pure organic...
BASIC CONCEPTS OF ORGANIC FARMING By Dr.B.N.Viswanath Principle Aims Organic agriculture and processing is based on number of principles and ideas. They are...
PRINCIPAL REQUIREMENTS OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE & PROCESSING In order to achieve its principal aims, the organic agricultural movement has adopted certain...
IMPORTANCE OF BIO FERTILIZERS Modern Agriculture has been heavily depending on the fossil fuel- based inputs such as inorganic fertilizers, pesticides,...
CULTIVATION OF THE SENNA Cassia angustifolia INTRODUCTION The name Senna has been given to the species of Cassia which are used as the sources of the senna...
Disposal of animal manure is one of the biggest problems facing agriculture today. Now, scientists may have found a way to convert some types into a material...
Although the effectiveness of using Radio Waves to kill destructive insects in agricultural products has been known for 70 years, the technique has never been...
Greenpeace / Munich, Germany / 12 February 2003 While the European Patent Office (EPO) was reconsidering a controversial Patent on Maize currently held by the...
In most British colonies, a serious confusion still abounds today as to the correct nomenclatures relating to Custard Apple and Sugar Apple. The descriptive...
Anthracnose and the friendly neighbors may not be the only problems that a Mango grower have to deal with. Sometimes, water related factors can cause a Mango...
A picture is worth a thousand words. As part of my massive and ongoing project for the international tropical/subtropical fruit community to exchange valuable ...
The commercial Banana has such a narrow genetic base that within a decade the plant could be wiped out by two fungal diseases that are rampaging through...
Papaya (Carica papaya) trees are one of the most common sites in Florida and elsewhere in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world. A member of the...