Category: Commercial Grow

Water contamination naturally follows the liberal and unmitigated use of fertilizers used in production-driven Monsanto and AGRA schemes, but resources are not in place to manage its effects should it become more widespread. Thus, high-yield industrial monoculture may be inappropriate in emerging markets. It is an error to assume Western interventions function in all contexts.…

All together, it is clear that with biochar addition to a soil there will likely be changes in soil biological community structures and functions and that pyrolysis temperature, feedstock, and application rate will all have significant influence on these induced changes. Pre-inoculation of biochar with PGPR could add value for biochar marketing and provides a means…

CPMV inactivation by UV light was previously reported and only required a dose of 2.5 J.cm-2 to prevent infection.This difference highlights one of the hurdles to standardizing UV inactivation across systems; we employed a UVP cross linker delivering 7 m watts.cm-2 , and samples were prepared using a 1 mg mL-1 solution placed 20 cm away from the…

The particles were again centrifuged at 112,000 g for 1 h on a 30% sucrose cushion to remove excess Cy5, and resuspended in 10 mM KP buffer overnight. Further purification to remove aggregates involved centrifugation at 16,000 g for 10 min. TMGMV-Cy5 was eluted using PD Minitrap G-25 desalting columns to remove free Cy5 dye. CPMV comprises 180…

A less stringent definition would include any materials with at least one dimension in the range 1–100 nm, thus including nanowires and nanotubes.In this introduction, I considered nanocarriers with at least one dimension smaller than 1000 nm and their use for the targeted delivery of active ingredients to achieve greater efficacy. I will focus on the…

For instance Alderman, Hoddinott and Kinsey show that exposure to drought for children aged 1 to 3 years affect readiness to school, and progression through school. Figures 3.7 to 3.10 further explore the relation between exposure to drought and human capital accumulation five years after the drought period. Individuals 6 to 13 years old in…

It is likely that soil maggot pest pressure on broccoli is generally lower in the Imperial County and Fresno County, where summers are hot and dry, than in the cooler, moist Central Coast climate where the pest thrives. If the pest pressure was even moderately higher in the Central Coast than the other regions, yet…

From the Regional Board’s perspective, requiring more stringent and costly compliance standards for higher-risk farms is more fair than holding all regulated entities to the same standards. “If they are rational,” argues Sunstein , “agencies will bring enforcement actions against the most dangerous violator.” Another group of growers feel the Agricultural Waiver is unfair for…

For this reason I find it less helpful to stress the in-betweenness of the migrants; they do not so much move between two fully-formed nations as their movement causes the two places to overlap such that the internal politics of one become the internal politics of the other. They are central to the self-definition of…

In the texts that I examine, the causes of famine are generally represented as at once “natural” and social—the typical example is a drought compounding the already unequal distribution of grain—and while one or the other may be portrayed as dominant for particular political goals, the text’s reflection on the interconnections between them leads to…