REQUIREMENTS FOR PROCESSING FACILITIES (Courtesy Dept of Fisheries) These guidelines provide an overview of the certification process and construction standards as specified in the fish quality Assurance and inspection regulations. To specify the food safety and...
HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE CBN N50 BILLION TARGETED CREDIT FACILITY? If Not, you are in the right place... According to the CBN,in response to the outbreak and spillovers of the COVID-19,it has issued the implementation of ₦50 billion Targeted Credit Facility for...
source: jis.gov.jm LAND SELECTION: Farmers do not get the right yield because they do not select the right choice of land to cultivate their crops. Just because cassava can thrive in almost any soil doesn’t mean it should be planted just on any available land....
Russell IPM presentation on Tuta-Absoluta and a video showing the use of Tutrack; a pheromone based mass trapping system against Tuta absoluta https://youtu.be/9pShdKB9mD0 https://youtu.be/AwepDZc2V60
Organic farming is a method of crop and livestock production that is dependent on the use of organic materials such as green manure and biological control methods such as crop rotation. The book entering the organic export market was written by Freek Jan Koekoek and...
Draught field showing wilted plantsImage Source: www.ucsusa.org Climate change impacts will require major but very uncertain transformations of global agriculture systems by mid-century, according to new research from the International Institute for Applied Systems...
This is an article that provides you with information on the different types of packaging that are often used and its evaluation. It also reveals the different forms of losses in fruit and vegetable production. The cost benefit analysis of the packaging forms and the...
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Practical technologies are required to preserve the viability of seeds particularly those known to be short-term viable species like Carica papaya (papaya). Papaya seeds were imbibed in water or chemical solutions (CaCl2 10-5 M, salicylic acid...
INTRODUCTION Growers using greenhouses in which temperature, light and relative humidity are controlled have relied for many years on releases of natural enemies to manage aphids, thrips and two-spotted spider mites. However, many of the natural enemies used to manage...