Our study found that reduction of rhizosphere pH through provision of nitrogen fertilizer to sugarcane as ammonium rather than nitrate increased silicon uptake from a low-silicon soil amended with calcium silicate slag.
As part of the incentives, the government provides certain services – land preparation, provision of seedlings, fertilizers, market opportunities, etc.
Provision of seeds, equipment, fertilizer, and training that enabled some six million people in Nigeria, Somali, South Sudan and Yemen to plant and harvest crops.
Water infrastructure as well as the provision of fuel-based fertilizers has allowed a geographical transfer of agricultural production to the west of the 100 meridian into arid ecosystems.
Agricultural "productivity safety nets," for example, provision of seeds and fertilizers; public goods such as education, extension services and innovative approaches can provide significant support to farmers and rural households.
To this end, FAO is collaborating with the World Food Programme to ensure vulnerable families -- mainly IDPs and host communities -- receive food assistance, and at the same time agriculture-based livelihood support in the form of provision of seeds, tools and fertilizer.
In Ethiopia livestock production is an integral part of the agricultural system contributing 40%% of the agricultural gross domestic product (GDP) and 20%% of the total GDP without considering other contributions like provision of traction power, organic fertilizers and as means of transport [ 4, 5].
To support vulnerable farmers affected by high food prices and drought through the provision of quality wheat seed and fertilizer for the autumn 2010 planting season in Nangarhar, Kunar, Ghor, Badakhshan and Daikundi provinces.
The same legislation that waived food exports also included a little-noticed provision that exempted fertilizer from the sanctions.
A brief treatment of fertilizer follows.
The building was a fertilizer plant; the components of fertilizer can be used in explosives.
