1977 papers
This study demonstrates that older organic cacao agroforestry systems in the eastern Brazilian Amazon significantly improve soil chemical quality and nutrient cycling compared to younger systems, highlighting their potential for sustainable land management and ecological restoration in nutrient-poor tropical soils.
This study found that supplementing broiler chicken diets with Aloe vera gel at levels up to 10.0 mL via drinking water did not significantly improve overall growth performance or survival rates, but higher inclusion levels were associated with a selective reduction in specific leg-quarter carcass weights without affecting total carcass yield.
This paper presents and evaluates a modular, portable pipeline that integrates soil moisture forecasting with irrigation decision support, demonstrating high advisory accuracy and low latency across diverse agricultural sites while revealing that the predictive advantage of machine learning models over persistence baselines is context-dependent and not universally statistically significant.
This study demonstrates that while seed-applied insecticides effectively control fall armyworm, specific chemical combinations significantly reduce the survival and reproductive success of the zoophytophagous predator *Podisus nigrispinus*, thereby potentially compromising natural pest suppression in sorghum fields.
A field study in Northern India comparing five pest management strategies found that while a chemically intensive module most effectively reduced onion thrips populations, an adaptable IPM module offered a superior balance by achieving moderate pest control with significantly less harm to beneficial predator populations like spiders and coccinellids.
This five-year monitoring study in Côte d'Ivoire reveals that cotton leafhopper infestations, dominated by the invasive *Amrasca biguttula*, are primarily driven by year, region, variety, and cropping history, with damage-based indicators proving more relevant than population counts for predicting yield loss and suggesting that management should prioritize tolerant varieties and optimized spray scheduling over generalized insecticide intensification.
This study demonstrates that chronic exposure to low, field-realistic doses of the insecticide imidacloprid significantly impairs colony growth, development, and worker size in the Neotropical bumblebee *Bombus pauloensis*.
This study of 382 households in Ghana's Sissala East Municipality reveals that income, household size, and education significantly influence agrochemical usage and food security, prompting a call for targeted policies that enhance farmer education, income diversification, and extension services to support vulnerable farming communities.
The study demonstrates that the phosphate-solubilizing endophytic fungus *Talaromyces lentulus* PF12-1 significantly enhances the growth and resveratrol accumulation in *Polygonum cuspidatum* seedlings by upregulating biosynthetic genes, highlighting its potential as a biofertilizer.
This study demonstrates that while walnut shells can partially substitute wood particles in particleboard production, a 30% addition ratio offers optimal mechanical stability, whereas the 42%–50% range constitutes a critical fluctuation zone where properties like modulus of elasticity and thickness swelling degrade significantly.