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Tag: Agriculture

  • More Food and Greener Farming with Specialised Transporters for Plants

    Essential to this are proteins called membrane transporters. Transporters also effectively carry high-energy molecules to where they are needed, help plants resist pathogens and make plants more tolerant to adverse conditions. One challenge is to make crops do these things simultaneously.

  • EU Restricts Bee-Harming Insecticides

    European Union Restricts Bee-Harming Insecticides (via Environment News Service) BRUSSELS, Belgium, April 29, 2013 (ENS) – The European Commission will restrict the use of three neonicotinoid insecticides harmful to bees, imposing the world’s first continental ban on the popular chemicals. The proposal restricts the use of three neonicotinoids – clothianidin, imidacloprid…

  • Water Usage: Some Startling Numbers

    This infographic has been provided by Melanie Palmero, Loch Ness Water Gardens. “Some of the information was pretty surprising! “I had no idea just how much water is needed to produce some of the foods I eat,” she writes.

  • Improving Climate Protection in the Agricultural Sector

    As part of the study, scientists investigated 40 organic and 40 conventional agricultural holdings across Germany’s four agricultural regions. They focused exclusively on crop and dairy farms. The scientists recorded all relevant climate gas streams during the entire production process, including methane, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide. In the case of dairy farms, they also…