Category: farm guide

VRF (variable rate fertilizer) Application for what and for whom

VRF variable rate fertilizer is adaptd in precision farming. it achieves cost reductions in resorces and enhances profitability. Also makes for a more climate change adapted farming.

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Smart Sensors aid farming in climate and environmental changes

Climate change, decreasing farmlands require farmers use smart sensors as aid to maintain or increase production.

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Farmers measure production, income and profits – Avoid Distress

Ever increasing farm production still leaves farmer’s distressed. This article discusses physically measuring the reasons for such a sorry state of affairs by some financial ratios.

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How to Maintain Agri-Equipment Good

agri-equipment and stores require maintenance

Farmer always have to maintain agri-equipment so that the same are readily deployable to work. General guidelines are indicated to help a farmer to maintain agri-equipment

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How to Select Your Tractor

guide discusses classification of tractors and a procedure for selection of a suitable tractor by a farmer as needed.

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Minimum Support Price (MSP) for agri produce is the new war cry.

Indian farmers are demanding a compulsory minimum support price MSP for agri produce. Problems and how to go to make laws for MSP for agri produce are discussed.

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AGRICULTURE POLLUTION AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Agriculture is now taken up as an industry and like any industry results in pollution which enhances climate change. Ways in which such pollution occurs and how farmers can reduce such pollution are discussed.

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PESTICIDES LABELLING METHODS and THEIR QUANTITY CALCULATIONS

Labelling methods for pesticides indicate if formulations are dry or solutions and their further subdivision. Farmers select based on suitabiliity for their needs. Based on label info, calculation of how much pesticide to be given are made. This post describes both labelling methods and calculation formulae.

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