crop bio piracy

Bio piracy refers to unauthorised and unlawful access to biological secret and use of such secrets for specific gai..

Bio-piracy - Bio piracy refers to unauthorised and unlawful access to biological secret and use of such secrets for specific gain. In biological research many secrets have been unravelled. Genetic structures of potentially useful organisms, genetic ..

Mixed Cropping - Mixed cropping is growing of two or more crops simultaneously on the same piece of land. It is also known as multiple cropping. This type of cropping leads to an improvement in the fertility of the soil and hence, increase in c..

It involves growing of crops in strips. The most common method followed is the contour farming where the strips of crop are at right angles to the slope. Wind-strip cropping is when the strips of crop are place at right angles to the direction of win..

Auxins improve the quality of vegetable crops by inhibiting flower formation in some plan..

The growing of different kinds of crops on a piece of land in a preplanned succession is known as crop rotation. In the rotation of crops, leguminous crops like pulses, beans, peas, groundnut and Bengal gram are sown in-between the seasons of cereal ..

For successful crop production a thorough understanding of how crops develop and grow, the various factors that affect crop growth and development and how each factor can be modified or managed are essential. Plant responses to soil conditions and atmospheric environme..

The practice of growing different crops at different times on the same land is called crop rotation. This keeps the topsoil covered with vegetation. Rotation of cereal crops with legumes also keeps the soil enriched with nitrogen (from the legumes..

Each crop is, in fact, an adaptation from wild type to a cultivated type. Wild types or wild species of each crop can be traced to their natural habitat where such species are grown naturally without human interference. Even cultivated species of a crop exhibit greatly..

Certain preventive measures can be adopted to protect crops from weeds, insects, mites, rodents and fungi. They are: Use of resistant varieties, Optimum time of sowing the crops, Crop rotation and cropping system, Clean cultivation, Summer ploughin..