1977 papers
This study of 58 smallholder dairy farmers in Southwestern Uganda reveals that while forage production is dominated by continuous maize monocultures with significant soil nutrient mining risks, operational authority and geographic location—not gender or education—are the primary drivers determining plot scale and fertilizer adoption strategies.
Despite net cropland expansion in Southeast Asia from 2000 to 2022, the study reveals that the conversion of high-quality land to urban areas and the expansion of lower-potential frontier lands have collectively reduced per-capita cereal production potential and increased import dependence, demonstrating that land quantity alone is an insufficient indicator of food security.
This study reveals that onion seed production among smallholder farmers in Ethiopia's Central Rift Valley is hindered by a reliance on informal, unauthenticated seed sources and traditional practices, necessitating strengthened public-private partnerships and formal distribution systems to improve seed quality, reduce losses, and support sustainable development.
A two-year field study at Punjab Agricultural University demonstrated that wheat grown under poplar plantations achieves optimal growth and yield when sown in late October or mid-November to synchronize with the trees' leafless phase and escape terminal heat stress, with foliar application of 2% potassium nitrate or 0.5% zinc sulphate further significantly boosting grain production compared to the control.
This study demonstrates that the invasive grass *Aegilops tauschii* exhibits a colonization-competition trade-off based on seed position, where seeds from higher positions on the spike possess greater colonization potential but reduced competitive ability against wheat, ultimately enhancing the species' adaptability to diverse environments.
This paper proposes MTRNet, a knowledge-guided multi-task framework that integrates expert phytopathological attributes and a non-parametric Cascade Inference System to achieve high-accuracy, interpretable, and robust rice disease diagnosis in complex open-field environments.
This study demonstrates that stump diameter measured at 30 cm above ground serves as a robust and practical predictor for estimating biomass and carbon stocks in *Acacia* plantations in Bangladesh, offering a viable alternative to conventional breast-height measurements for effective post-harvest monitoring and climate change mitigation.
This study demonstrates that freshly prepared ground kaffir lime peel aqueous extract is the most effective botanical larvicide against *Aedes aegypti* larvae, achieving 100% mortality within 24 hours and presenting a promising, low-cost alternative to synthetic chemicals.
This study demonstrates that among three synthesized combinatorial nanofertilizers (HNF, ZNF, and CNF), the Zeolite-based formulation (ZNF) exhibits superior physicochemical properties and most effectively enhances rice growth, biochemical resilience, and grain quality compared to the other treatments and a control.
This study demonstrates that both diatomaceous earth and *Ocimum basilicum* essential oil are effective, environmentally friendly alternatives to synthetic acaricides for managing the citrus brown mite (*Eutetranychus orientalis*), with diatomaceous earth showing superior laboratory toxicity and reproductive suppression while both agents achieved comparable population reductions under semi-field conditions.