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Desiccated potato plants prior to harvest. Pre-harvest crop desiccation is the application of an agent to a crop just before harvest to kill the leaves and/or plants so that the crop dries out from environmental conditions, or "dry-down", more quickly and evenly.
As of 2005, 87% of U.S. soybean fields were planted with glyphosate resistant varieties. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] While the use of Roundup Ready crops has increased the usage of herbicides measured in pounds applied per acre, [ 9 ] it has also changed the herbicide use profile away from atrazine , metribuzin , and alachlor [ citation needed ] which are more ...
Animal-free farming may use organic or non-organic farming methods. However, most detailed discussions of animal-free agriculture currently focus on animal-free organic variants. [4] In the European Union, farmers have a financial incentive to use manure instead of animal-free fertilisers, since manure is subsidised.
The Songhai zero waste farm in Benin was started by Father Godfrey Nzamujo in 1985. It is now recognised as a centre of excellence by the UN and its philosophy and methods are now studied and followed by thousands in Africa. The picture shows the generation of biofuel from animal waste. This fuel is then used for cooking and generation of ...
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[1] [2] [3] Vegan organic agriculture is the organic form of animal-free agriculture. Animal-free farming methods use no animal products or by-products, such as bloodmeal, fish products, bone meal, feces, or other animal-origin matter because the production of these materials is viewed as either harming animals directly, or as associated with ...
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Various studies identified the important factors as insufficient or risky credit systems, the difficulty of farming semi-arid regions, poor agricultural income, absence of alternative income opportunities, a downturn in the urban economy which forced non-farmers into farming and the absence of suitable counseling services.