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Co-benefits of nutrient management tailored to smallholder agriculture

While inorganic fertilizers combined with high-yielding varieties, mechanization, irrigation, and other inputs have contributed to sustained increases in crop yield and food security in the 20th century, relying on blanket applications of fertilizer is inefficient and can cause excessive nutrient losses to...

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Interactive effect of weeding regimes, rice cultivars, and seeding rates influence the rice-weed competition under dry direct-seeded condition

The rice production method, dry direct seeding (DSR), is the alternate option for the successful cultivation of aus rice where irrigation water is scarce...

Conservation agriculture improves soil health: Major research findings from Bangladesh

This chapter explores how, in Bangladesh, conservation agriculture improves soil physical, biochemical, and biological health, leading to improved cropping...

Climate-smart agriculture practices influence weed density and diversity in cereal-based agri-food systems of western Indo-Gangetic plains

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA)-based management practices are evolving as a viable and sustainable alternative to conventional rice-wheat cropping systems...

Abiotic stress tolerance: Progress and pathways of sustainable rice production

Investment, innovation, and empowering the world’s most vulnerable populations are required to establish a rice production system that adapts to climate...

Insights into natural genetic resistance to rice yellow mottle virus and implications on breeding for durable resistance

The prospects for rice self-sufficiency in sub-Saharan Africa are being subverted by abiotic and biotic factors, including plant diseases. Several important...

Integrated strategies for durable rice blast resistance in sub-Saharan Africa

First reported in sub-Saharan Africa in 1922, rice blast has become the most devastating and widespread disease of rice with yield losses of up to 100%...

Climate risk and planting patterns: An examination of the direct and indirect effects of changing precipitation on the behavior of Bangladeshi farmers

The interplay between changing environmental experiences and preferences implies that as weather patterns continue to evolve and change, the reactions...

EasyIDP: A Python package for intermediate data processing in UAV-based plant phenotyping

The objective of the proposed software package EasyIDP (easy intermediate data processor) is to address previously identified difficulties and decrease...

Protein from renewable resources: mycoprotein production from agricultural residues

Animal-sourced and plant-sourced proteins cause significant environmental concerns on climate change and arable land use and their supply chains are vulnerable...

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