A crop life table can be used to understand the factors that regulate losses during crop production to establish a sustainable crop management programme.
The aim of this study was to identify the critical components and quantify the key factors affecting yield loss during watermelon production using a crop life table as a tool.
The focus is on simultaneous proximal sensing for spectral reflectance, canopy temperature, and plant architecture where a vehicle carrying replicated sets of sensors records data on multiple plots, with the potential to record data throughout the crop life cycle.
The loss factors of physiological disturbance and insect, fungal, and bacterial attack were identified and quantified to develop a crop life table, and the primary factors regulating total watermelon yield losses were found to be flower abortion, abnormal fruits, and plant death caused by the fungus Didymella bryoniae.
As part of the Food Africa program, they will work with UNDP and new partners like the Sahara Group and the Nigerian government to resolve issues linked to food insecurity and malnutrition and share their know-how in increasing crop life, and building more sustainable resilient and inclusive food systems.
Information materials and exhibits from a range of other organizations and interest groups relevant to the sound management of chemicals will also be available and include the Pesticide Action Network (PAN), Crop Life, Rotterdam Convention Alliance (ROCA, Foundationn for Advancements in Science (FASE), the World Health Organization (WHO), Basel and Stockholm Conventions.
Dr. Greg Loeb, Cornell Small Fruit and Grape Entomologist describes insect that plague berry crops, their life cycles, and effective control strategies.
Lack of supply is expected to send the price of chocolate soaring as thousands of poverty-stricken farmers in west Africa abandon poorly paid cultivation of the beans for more lucrative crops or life in the cities.
In some ways this is the cry of a lost generation, desperately clicking away on crops as life passes them by.
The high solubility of dyes in water results in their wide dissemination into the environment, thus making them detrimental to crops, aquatic life and human health (Zhao et al. 2011).
