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  1. The Amazing Effects of Rice Straw

    2010-01-01 This article is from ECHO Asia Note #4 Does rice straw have any value? Looking at the practices of most farmers, it seems not! The burning of rice straw is a common sight during the harvest period in many parts of Asia. Yet a number of farmers think otherwise. One of them is Isidro Prado from...
    Organic Mulch Rice Soil Fertility Soil Remediation Asia

  2. Ecological Organic Agriculture Development in Tanzania

    EOA Documentary English Subtitles
    Organic Tanzania East Africa

  3. Organic chemistry: A short course

    This is a college text book about organic chemistry.
    Chemistry Organic

  4. Organic chemistry

    College text book of Organic Chemistry
    Chemistry Organic

  5. Producing Food Without Pesticides Local Solutions to Crop Pest Control in West Africa

    1998-01-01 In EDN 64-5 we reviewed a report from Lowell Fuglie of the Church World Service in Senegal on his successful project with Moringa oleifera. He has published another book with CTA (Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU) on natural crop protection in West Africa. Part one...
    Organic Natural Herbicides Natural Pesticides Plant Health

  6. Cooking Oil Spray for Home Gardens

    1992-06-19 The U. S. Department of Agriculture is recommending that home gardeners use a cooking oil spray to control aphids, white flies and spider mites.Researchers claim that the oil spray is only about one-third as costly as commercial pesticides with equivalent effectiveness. Recipe for an oil and soap...
    Organic Pesticide Pest Control Biological Control aphids

  7. Iron Sulfate Molluscicide

    1993-10-19 Iron sulfate can be used to control slugs. Recent laboratory trials in England support the notion that iron sulfate is rapidly absorbed and is highly toxic to slugs.
    Crop Pests Organic Slugs

  8. Kerosene Emulsifiable Concentrate Insecticide

    1998-02-19 Kerosene Emulsifiable Concentrate is an insecticide (at times it acts as a fungicide) which has a very wide spectrum as far as dealing with various insects is concerned.
    Organic Pest Control Biological Control

  9. Collards Can Protect Cabbage From Diamondback Caterpillars

    1999-07-19 The diamondback caterpillar,Plutella xylostella, (larva of amoth) is a very serious pest of cabbage and other crops. When highly fertilized collard greens (B. oleracea, Acephala Group), a related vegetable, are planted completely around a field, moths lay their eggs on the collards rather than on...
    Insects Trap Crop Pest Control Organic Biological Control

  10. Nutrient Quantity or Nutrient Access? A New Understanding of How to Maintain Soil Fertility in the Tropics

    2002-01-20 The conventional view of the relationship between soil nutrients and crop productivity in the tropics is leading to both damaging agricultural policies and inefficient and damaging farm-level practices. There is no need to use the huge quantities of chemical fertilizers that are so often...
    Organic Cover Crops Green Manures Acidic Soil Soil Health Plant Nutrition