Production of banana has declined over the past three decades, primarily due to soil fertility depletion, drought and attacks from pathogens such as banana bacterial wilt, black Sigatoka and fusarium ...

Ginger usually requires regular hand weeding during its growth. Hand weed one month after planting. Later weed frequency ...

Dalle Khursani, a unique chili from Sikkim, is prized for its nutritional value and organic cultivation. With the GI tag ...

They must also be more careful in the way they use livestock manure and other forms of organic waste to fertilise the soil or else the farmers risk making agriculture more complicated and ...

Nothing is better than a display of colourful spring flowers in your home, and it turns out you can keep them fresh for much longer is you feed them a few items sitting in your kitchen.

The latter provides the plant lesions in which bacterial infections develop and flourish. Fields with previous Goss’s wilt infections may not see significant disease development without weather ...

However, according to food experts, we should be extremely careful with how we store food in the fridge if we want to avoid ...

Planting a diversity of crops can prove beneficial during extreme weather events. Some plants are better able to stand up to ...

Therefore, early detection—before leaves visibly discolor, wilt or wither—is crucial ... They found: For both crops infected with the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv.

Bacterial wilt can be a serious disease in pumpkin plantings if striped or spotted cucumber beetles are present when plants first emerge from the soil. The bacterium is vectored (carried) from plant ...