Data were collected for growth, aerial biomass yield, dry matter partitioning, carbon sequestration, and insect and disease infestation.
In essence, modifying planting date and using intercropping systems contribute to the reduction of disease infestation of cumin without using chemicals.
Asked to explain how crunching this type of data translates into practical farming, the KisanHub CEO and ex-farmer says that it could involve blending farm location, crop, and weather data to forecast pest or disease infestation on a particular crop.
Table 5 Disease infestation of tomato under different treatments Treatments Bacterial wilt Leaf curl Bacterial blight FYM 10 tha-1 + NPK 100% 2 4 6 VC 10 tha-1 + NPK 100% 1 1 2 VF 10 tha-1 + NPK 100% 1 2 2 NPK 100% 6 11 14 FYM, farm yard manure; VC, vermicompost; VF, vermicomposted fly ash; NPK100, percent of recommended NPK fertilization.
"Rainfall in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam has been below average since 2009, resulting in droughts, lower yields and more pest and disease infestations," say the authors.
Under proper circumstances, prescribed burning can be used to prepare seedbeds for natural germination of most tree species, to control insect and disease infestations, to reduce weed competition, to reduce fire hazard, and to manipulate forest cover type.
Most of the people have suffered from food insecurity resulting from flooding, erratic and untimely rainfall, snowfalls, degraded farmlands, crop pests and diseases infestations, livestock disease, malaria and other human diseases, and small landholdings among other factors.
The town may also remove from private property any tree that is deemed at risk of disease or infestation.
The tree's precise age, however, can only be estimated, because to determine exact age, a boring must be conducted -- a procedure that leaves a tree vulnerable to disease and infestation.
Farmers will be able to monitor their land in detail, pinpointing outbreaks of disease and infestation, for example, or checking soil humidity.
Borlaug had developed a new variety of wheat that was resistant to disease and infestation: by the 1960s, it was producing up to three times more grain than traditional species.
