Technical Guideline: Rice Cultivation Reduces Costs, Improves Efficiency, Adapts to Climate Change in the Red River Delta

The Department of Crop Production coordinated with the International Rice Research Institute in Vietnam to develop this technical guideline for rice-producing provinces in the Red River Delta. The guideline focused on reducing inputs, improving efficiency, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to climate change for rice production. The key components of the guidelines were (1) appropriate land preparation (including laser land levelling), (2) recommended varieties, adjusted crop calendar using CS-MAP, (3) crop establishment including recommendations for seed treatment, seedbed preparation, direct seeding and density, (4) crop care including recommendations for water management, fertilizer application and pest management, and (5) harvesting and postharvest management. In addition, the appendix of the guideline introduced several technologies and innovations such as Laser land leveling, on-tray seedbed (for machine transplanting), mechanized direct seeding, alternate wetting and drying irrigation, principles of fertilizer application, integrated pest management, harvest and postharvest technology and straw management

AgrEvo: From crop protection to crop production

AgrEvo is a German producer of crop protection products. In 1995 it made the strategic decision to shift from crop protection to crop production, with the help of biotechnology. It acquired Plant Genetic Systems (PGS), a successful plant biotechnology company, and started a round of acquisitions in the international seed industry. The company soon found out that biotechnology brings many new uncertainties in strategic decision-making.Includes bibliographical reference

Reducing Crop Production Cost

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Organic Crop Production Overview

This publication provides an overview of the key concepts and practices of certified organic crop production. It also presents perspectives on many of the notions, myths, and issues that have become associated with organic agriculture over time. A guide to useful ATTRA resources and to several non-ATTRA publications is provided

Crops: Illinois General Information, 1985

Includes crop review, crop production index, 1960-84; principal crops, acres harvested for grain, 1950-84; record highs through 1984; cash receipts, 1982-83; crop development, 1984; Illinois' position in nation's crop production; aggregate acreage of crops harvested and value of production, 1975-84; acreage, yield, production, and value for corn, soybeans and small grains, sorghum, potatoes, and hay crops; and counties leading in production of selected crops, 1975-84. Includes Illinois county map of total crop cash receipts.published or submitted for publicationnot peer reviewe

The economic sustainability of second crops implementation in organic maize production

Although organic crop production has numerous advantages, concerns about economic sustainability, both environmental and financial, make farmers reluctant to convert their conventional production into the organic production. Certain agricultural methods, such as second crop use, can alleviate some problems regarding soil tilth, erosion prevention, nutrients availability and weed control, thus contributing toward more sustainable crop production. Also, the added value crop growth, such as maize (Zea mais L.) hybrid's parental line production, with lower yields but higher prices, can contribute to sustainability of organic production. In order to test the hypothesis that the use of second crops can contribute toward the sustainability of organically grown maize after soybean (Glycine max L.) as a previous crop in the crop rotation, the experimental site was established in Valpovo, Croatia, in the eutric brown soil type, during the years 2005 and 2006. The experimental design was set up as a CRBD in four repetitions, with six second crop treatments: CT – Control, without second crop; WW – winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) second crop; RY – rye (Secale cereale L.) second crop; FP – fodder pea (Pisum arvense L.) second crop; WP – mixture of WW and FP; and RP – mixture of RY and FP. In order to assess the soil surface protection and evaluate the weed suppression, the second crop coverage had been recorded. Regarding the economic sustainability, the second crop use depending costs were analysed in relation to the extra produced maize yield. The RY treatment had the highest profitability, followed by WW, RP and O. The WP and FP revealed lower relative profitability than O, thus presenting the evidence of sustainability risk of these treatments

Crop rotations for grain production

There is an increasing demand for organically grown cereal grains in Denmark, which is expected to cause a change in the typical organic farm structure away from dairy farming and towards arable farming. Such a change may reduce the stability of the farming systems, because of decreasing soil fertility and problems with weed control. There have only been a limited number of studies under temperate conditions in Europe and North America, where different crop rotations have been compared under organic farming or similar production conditions

Crop Production Uncertainty to Persist

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