CLIMATIC CONTROL OF CROPPING SYSTEMS AND FARM OPERATIONS

Enhancing economic water productivity under on farm reservoirs in diversified rainfed cropping systems

A long term study was done to assess the impact of on farm reservoirs (OFR) on oil seedand cereal based cropping systems with vegetables (okra, tomato and carrot) in semi-aridalfisol of southern Telangana region. Two supplemental irrigation (SI) depths (30 and 50 mm)from OFR with raingun system were studied for assessing the water productivity andprofitability of the technology in these croppin...

Weed control in organic horticultural cropping systems

A review of organic growers' concerns about weeds is presented and several issues that may ease those concerns are highlighted. The underlying principles of organic weed management (OWM) are briefly discussed and results from organic grower surveys regarding weed management practices in organic horticultural cropping are presented. The most common weeds encountered by organic growers, often tho...

Weed Control in Organic Cropping Systems

Evaluation, Design and Control of Sustainable Horticultural Cropping Systems

As all other human activities, horticulture is accountable for its impact on the resources available, now and in the future, to our societies. The problem is of particular importance in production systems that are often intensive and require high amounts of inputs. To fit with the increasing number of regulations and contracts growers have to respect, tools must be created to evaluate existing ...

Biology and control of reproduction of sturgeons in fish farm

Over the last century the reproduction of sturgeon has been intensively studied par Russian scientists who established a technology for the ranching of alevins which included artificial fertilization of gametes taken from wild broodfish and larvae rearing. More recently, since 1970, major contributions originated from teams in the USA, the EU, Japan and Iran. A rather good knowledge of the repr...