In Simbroh village of Punjab’s Patiala district, 70-year-old Gurjant Singh looked out over his five-acre farm with a mix of pride and resignation. When he began farming in 1978, he cultivated a ...

Monocropping (or monoculture) is the planting of a single crop in the same patch of land year after year. For example, in 2020, two crops—corn (maize) and soybean—accounted for 70% of the planted ...

A Diverfarming project study compares the environmental footprint and the economic performance of traditional mandarin monocropping as opposed to growing mandarin intercropped with herbaceous crops ...

(Beyond Pesticides, June 8, 2020) Brazil is home to more than 300 native bee species — many of them stingless — that help pollinate the nation’s valuable agricultural crops and provide other important ...

Hyderabad: Telangana moving towards a monocropping culture, wherein a majority of farmers are moving towards cultivating paddy as a result of increased irrigation from new projects, might result in a ...

One of HC&S’s biggest struggles however is how to remediate the soil for growth after years of sugarcane monocropping left the soil severely depleted. After determining the most effective soil ...