In Simbroh village of Punjab’s Patiala district, 70-year-old Gurjant Singh looked out over his five-acre farm with a mix of pride and resignation. When he began farming in 1978, he cultivated a ...
Monocropping (or monoculture) is the planting of a single crop in the same patch of land year after year. For example, in 2020, two crops—corn (maize) and soybean—accounted for 70% of the planted ...
(Beyond Pesticides, June 8, 2020) Brazil is home to more than 300 native bee species — many of them stingless — that help pollinate the nation’s valuable agricultural crops and provide other important ...
A group of Catholic missionaries and peasant organizations in the Philippines have called for a stop to the expansion of monocropping industries in the country. "[Monocrop industries] threaten not ...
African-based environmental groups have called on rich and influential donors to give “more investment and support” to smallholder farmers to boost agroecological farm practices in Africa. The ...
One of HC&S’s biggest struggles however is how to remediate the soil for growth after years of sugarcane monocropping left the soil severely depleted. After determining the most effective soil ...
Hyderabad: Telangana moving towards a monocropping culture, wherein a majority of farmers are moving towards cultivating paddy as a result of increased irrigation from new projects, might result in a ...
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