Posts Tagged Agriculture
October 9, 2009 at 6:17 am · Filed under Drip irrigation, Mechanization ·Tagged Agriculture, contour, crops, cultivators, Drip irrigation, farmers, fruitful results, irrigation facilities, irrigation methods, irrigation scheme, irrigation system, pivot irrigation, profits, root tips, surface changes, technological advancements, topological features
Agricultural practices have refined in last few years. People have broader idea about getting fruitful results out of their investment on the lands. One can ensure effective growth of plant only if the plant or whole plantation is administered with good irrigation facilities. These facilities can be helpful in providing useful gains for the farmers. By far technological advancements have gathered minds of farmers to render useful ideas into planned actions. These technological advancements can be adjudged with useful application in day-to-day life.
Importance of irrigation system
Irrigation plays a vital role in the modern day agriculture. The root tips are in search of water when they travel down inside the ground. These can be ably supported by irrigation administered by the cultivators. The irrigation methods are of varied types that are available for cultivators. Starting from drip irrigation to center pivot irrigation. Some of irrigation methods take care of all the necessary topological features that prevail in particular land. The contour of surface changes from place to place. It is quite evident that it can affect watering scheme adopted by the farmers. But this would be justified by the amount of water needed. Some crops would need large supply of water to be supplied to root tips.
Irrigation facilities promised by drip irrigation
Drip irrigation is one of the popular methods adopted by the farmers all over the world. This method could bestow useful irrigation to the crops that are planted. Drip irrigation is preferred in the gardens. The gardens that are small can be well sheltered under effective watering through drip irrigation scheme. Also some watering scheme require some additional components such as tubing that can add to the cost of establishment of watering facility. This can be cashing for the farmers initially but with effective maintenance it can fetch huge profits on long run. Drip irrigation also ensures correct level of moisture that is to be maintained around the root tips. Any variation in this can cause adverse effects on the plant.
Drip irrigations systems – Components
Drip irrigation involves use of valuable wit to design the overall plan of the system. The system includes tubing and piping needs to be satisfied before going for commissioning of irrigation system. There are several components that form integral part of drip irrigation systems. Also one needs to ensure proper design of irrigation systems can be employed to facilitate moisture monitoring. The shoot system of the plant needs supply of water and other nutrients through root. The watering of plants at optimum level ensures proper supply of nourishments for the development of crop into sizeable yielding. Special simulation software is available to map all the essential failure nodes that can lead to drastic changes in the irrigation channel. Hence it is advisable to use that software to clear out all the loopholes present in irrigation channel.
Effective maintenance of irrigation systems
Maintenance of irrigation system largely depends on the design of irrigation system. The maintenance of the drip irrigation system involves series of actions that can ensure proper working of overall system. Subsurface drip watering schemes are widely used by the farmers pertaining to different parts of world to irrigate the lawns. These can be effectively monitored for pressure inside the channel. This pressure if not checked periodically can institute massive technical failures for the entire irrigation system. People can seek expert advice to have proper maintenance. The tubing can be checked for correctness periodically to eliminate water leakage. The inlet and outlet nozzle can be cleared off from dust and mud in order to have proper entry and exit of water inside the whole watering system.
Permalink
August 1, 2009 at 10:59 pm · Filed under Articles, News ·Tagged Agriculture, billions, climates, cubic meters, Drip irrigation, esearch, intense heat, korea, little rain, plants, population, quality water, random intervals, Soil, surface water, tonnes, water consumption, water levels
Research shows almost %70 of all water consumption consists of watering. In our country, %75 of yearly usable 110 billions cubic meters of water is used in agriculture. The coming years will lead to more consumption with greater needs to feed the growing population.
Korea Boseong Greentea Garden
The ignorant and primitive watering not only wastes water but also damages the soil. Drip irrigation prevents both unnecessary use of water and soil damage while providing the plants with just enough water.
Natural Enemy of Salt
Watering done in random intervals in hot climates with little rain to improve the production, leave the salt in the field. It will also raise the sub surface water levels and the salt they contain. When the waters vaporise through the intense heat, leaves the salt in the soil. Salt prevents efficient production. Even good quality water leaves 1.1 tonnes of salt in 10 acres of land in such conditions.
Permalink
July 27, 2009 at 2:04 pm · Filed under News ·Tagged Agriculture, borrower default, conventional mortgages, department of agriculture, families with incomes, fha loans, home repair loan, income borrowers, income homeowners, leaking roof, loan guarantee, mortgage product, mortgage program, mortgage programs, rural property, section 504, sweat equity, United State Department of Agriculture, united states department, United States Department of Agriculture, usda loan, usda loans
The United States Department of Agriculture is home to a little known mortgage program that’s actually quite large. Along with VA loans, USDA mortgages are the only zero down mortgage product on the market today. Homebuyers can finance rural property and even small farms with some of the USDA’s mortgage programs.
Types of USDA Loans
Loan Guarantee Programm – Section 502 This program functions similarly to FHA loans; the lender makes a loan, not the USDA itself, however the USDA guarantess the to pay the lender the full amount should the borrower default. This program is attractive because it does not require a down payment.
Mutual Self-Help Program – Section 523 This loan program enables borrowers to buy a fixer-upper or personally build a new home and use their own labor to build some “sweat equity.” Homeowner’s must commit to doing 65% of construction or repair work on their own.
Home Repair Loan and Grant Program – Section 504 This refinance program helps low income homeowners obtain a USDA refinance and borrow to fix major issues such as a leaking roof or foundation crack. Generally this program is coupled with a grant that makes the interst very low–sometimes as little as 1%.
Qualifying for a USDA Loan
USDA Loans are made to families with incomes below 80% of the median in their area. This is specifically meant to help lower income borrowers that could not afford a conventional mortgages. Also, USDA loans must be issued in “rural” areas. Rural is defind as areas with 20,000 residents or less and is loosely enough interpretted that many suburbs of large cities can qualify.
To learn more about the USDA Rural Mortgage Program visit their site today.
Permalink
July 20, 2009 at 8:21 am · Filed under Articles, News, Orchard ·Tagged Agriculture, ash, centuries, drainage water, organic materials, Organic matter, organic mixtures, organisms, Soil, ventilation
Ventilation: Ventilating the soil not only improves drainage but also makes roots and underground organisms breathe. Ventilation can be achieved with most of the methods that improve drainage.
Processability: Heavily clayed soil is hard to work on. To improve this, drainage methods can be used together with adding organic materials that the soil lacks.
Color: Color of soil will change depending on for how long it’s been worked on. While the color of soil depends on the kind of rock it originated from, the amount of organic matter also has an effect. It can be said that the dark colored soil has been used in agriculture for centuries. Dark colored soil absorbs the heat faster and it will lose it slowly. This means they start getting warmer earlier in Spring. As such, improvement of color means darkening it. In old days, this was done by adding ventilated ash to soil, but nowadays we use organic mixtures.
Water Holding Capacity: Soil with too much sand in it has too good drainage, water disappears before the roots can absorb it. To improve water holding capacity of soil, as much organic matter as possible must be added. This will improve the situation and let the roots absorb water when the moisture is low.
Permalink
June 14, 2009 at 2:14 pm · Filed under Editor's Corner, Useful Methods ·Tagged affordable solutions, Agriculture, balcony, couple nights, gardening stores, growing carrots, lush greens, new apartment, orchards, perennials, shady side, side windows, Soil, style of life, sweet smell, textures, vibrant flowers, window boxes, window sills, windstorm
One of our readers asked for adding his review about Growing Boxes to Agriculture Guide, his words : Recently my wife and I moved closer to the family in the city. We’ve both worked on farms our entire life but at our age it’s just getting too hard to maintain that style of life. Being a country boy that I am deep down inside ever since we moved into our new apartment the hardest adjustment has been the lack of garden. We’d spend hours in our old one with our lush greens, vibrant flowers and just the orchards of tree’s we used to own but that wasn’t the case anymore. Read the rest of this entry »
Permalink
May 27, 2009 at 12:45 pm · Filed under Articles, Organic, Vegetative Production ·Tagged Agriculture, cause health problems, developing technology, dioxins, economic troubles, environmental hygiene, environmental pollution, EU, European Union, food production, food safety, food supply, foreign materials, glycoalkaloids, Health, hg pb, inadequate education, minimum health, Natural resource, necessary rules, organic farming, quality food, safe food, Sustainable agriculture, toxic materials, unfair competition, World population
Food safety is defined as taking precautions and complying with necessary rules during production, processing, storage and delivering stage of food in order to provide healthy and precise food production.
Sufficient food supply or food safety has been a strategic issue in history of humankind. In view of rapidly increasing world population, environmental pollution has become a serious threat for human health as a result of the use of developing technology and of policies providing for the intensive input use for the supply of food necessities.
In addition to these developments, economic troubles and inadequate education in less developed and developing countries have increased the feeding problem of rapidly increasing population; made it hard to supply food; Read the rest of this entry »
Permalink
May 23, 2009 at 3:25 pm · Filed under Articles, Drip irrigation ·Tagged Agriculture, backyard garden, drainage, drainage system, Drip irrigation, drip irrigation system, drip irrigation systems, flowers, followers, garden, garden space, ground water flow, Groundwater, help control, irrigation methods, irrigation systems, plants, right solution, viable options, Water
One of our followers, we say them AgriGuiders, has post an article at his site. He asked for publish it at AG. His article as follows :
Are you looking to find the right solution to help improve the drainage system of your garden?
If the flowers in your back garden are continually suffering from having large amounts of excess ground water blighting your efforts to create the perfect environment for your prized plants, you may be pleasantly surprised to find out that there are in fact several viable options to help eradicate the issue and thereby hopefully get the most out of your garden space.
In my experience in this area, I can generally recommend using drip irrigation systems to tackle the issue and
help control ground water flow – as they offer perhaps the most effective method of managing the problem of plant drainage and can be a lot more reasonably priced than you may perhaps initially think. For example, why not try checking out the range of irrigation systems currently available to buy on the web and see if this can solve your plant drainage difficulties. You may also find that many such systems that can be found online are actually very easy to install and use – indeed much less complex than one may think.
I learnt many useful irrigation methods thanks to Agriculture Guide – you can find comprehensive irrigation systems reviews, and also what they are, where they used, how you can construct them easily etc, – for details you have to look Agriculture Guide’s irrigation systems tutorials and reviews. Especially I strongly advise you to look their drip irrigation page too.
So if you are having real problems with getting unwanted standing water away from your plants why not give some serious consideration to installing a drip irrigation system in your garden today ?
* Thanks to you Agriculture Guide, you let me learn about all those irrigation systems that are suitable for my backyard garden.
Permalink
May 22, 2009 at 9:04 am · Filed under News ·Tagged agricultural sector, Agriculture, chambers, contributor, countries in the world, decades, economy, fertile soil, gdp, gross domestic product, hardworking farmers, Middle East, possible solutions, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, s gross, sector report, suitable climate, turkey, world farmers
Turkish farmers and chambers of agriculture marked World Farmers’ Day by discussing the problems Turkish farmers and agriculture face as well as possible solutions.
Turkey is one of the few countries in the world that is self-sufficient in terms of food. The country’s fertile soil, access to sufficient water, suitable climate and hardworking farmers all make for a successful agricultural sector. Historically, the agricultural sector has been Turkey’s largest employer and a major contributor to the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), although its share of the economy has fallen consistently over several decades. According to a sector report issued by UK Trade & Investment — a UK government organization that helps UK companies succeed in international markets — the share of agriculture in Turkey’s GDP has declined from 21 percent to 12 percent since 1983, and the country’s agricultural workforce, as a share of total employment, is also in gradual decline, falling from 35 percent in 2001 to 30 percent in 2007. The president of the Turkish Union of Agricultural Chambers (TZOB), Şemsi Bayraktar, and representatives of chambers of agriculture visited Anıtkabir, Atatürk’s mausoleum, on the occasion of Farmers’ Day.
Signing the official Anıtkabir memorial book at Misak-ı Milli (National Pact) Tower, Bayraktar wrote that chambers of agriculture are aware that being self-sufficient in terms of food has a strategic importance and they will keep producing more.
Stating that the agricultural sector had embraced the unemployed in this atmosphere of crisis, he complained about the lack of attention paid to agriculture in Turkey.
Turkish Agriculture Credit Cooperatives Central Union (TTKKMB) Chairman İlhami Teke said the agriculture sector should meet European Union standards. Stating that the sector should be able to produce with lower costs and higher productivity, he said more importance should be attached to research and development and higher productivity should be attained by utilizing advances in technology, increasing irrigable lands and instituting applied training programs for farmers.
Stating that the significance of agriculture has increased during the current global financial crisis, Bursa Chamber of Agriculture Chairman Fuat Sarı said the population engaged in agriculture had decreased considerably in the last decade. Noting that the agrarian population has declined to 27 percent from 35 percent in 2008, he said these people were forced to migrate to big cities. “Our country is not a very rich one. Unfortunately, we consume some of our money by importing agricultural products. So, the economy comes to a deadlock,” Sarı said.
Agricultural product export increased, while import decreased
In the meantime, Agriculture Minister Mehdi Eker delivered a speech at Parliament yesterday, and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) deputy Muharrem Varlı took the floor on the occasion of Farmers’ Day. Varlı noted that the direct income support provided for farmers had been abolished and the diesel fuel support provided for them does not meet one-third of the taxes charged on diesel fuel. Responding to Varlı, Minister Eker said the support lent to the agriculture sector amounted to TL 1.806 billion and this amount has now increased to TL 5.876 billion. Noting that the yearly income per capita of those engaging in agriculture has increased to $3,188 from $1,000 in 2002, Eker said, “The agricultural product export of Turkey has increased to $11.4 billion, while the agricultural product import has declined to $8.5 billion from $10.7 billion.”
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan also issued a message on the occasion of Farmers’ Day. In celebrating Farmers’ Day, he said, everyone — including state institutions — should cooperate and work more effectively to find solutions to the problems of farmers and the Turkish agricultural sector. Stating that World Farmers’ Day is a good opportunity to evaluate how efficiently Turkey is making use of its agricultural potential, Erdoğan said his government had been working to bring permanent solutions to problems that Turkish agriculture experiences, such as infertility in production and the low level of income farmers make.
Permalink
May 14, 2009 at 8:51 am · Filed under Cotton, Organic, Pest Control ·Tagged Agriculture, bath towel, bed sheets, Business, Clothing, Companion planting, Cotton, Crop rotation, cultivation of organic cotton crops, global marketplace, Globalization, leaps and bounds, mainstream, Mother Nature, Organic certification, organic cotton, organic cotton bed, organic cotton pest management, organic cotton textiles, organic products, pesticide, retail, retail market, safer products, t shirt, Target Corporation, Tillage, Wal-Mart
Eco-awareness and an increased demand for safer products continues to spread in the global marketplace, which could very well be why organic cotton is currently enjoying its well-deserved time in the limelight. Whether we slide underneath cozy organic cotton bed sheets, wrap ourselves in a downy-soft organic cotton bath towel or try on a simple organic t-shirt for size, the opportunities that today’s modern consumer has to purchase certified organic products has grown in leaps and bounds. They say that numbers don’t lie, a claim made even more concrete by the fact that global organic cotton sales in the retail market, which hovered at $1.9 billion back in the year 2007, climbed to $3.2 billion just one year later. As mainstream retailers such as Target, Wal-Mart and H&M hop on the organic cotton textile products bandwagon, global efforts to generate certified organic cotton crops will undoubtedly follow suit. Read the rest of this entry »
Permalink
Agricultural Biodiversity 