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Sod culture increases soil aeration porosity and organic matter content
Sod culture offers many advantages, such as improving the soil environment and maintaining the orchard ecosystem. After it was promoted to farmers for adoption, many examples have confirmed the benefits of sod culture. However, before choosing a sod culture method, it is recommended to evaluate it from multiple aspects and select the sod culture method suitable for that farmland.
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Can a bamboo house be a home? Building a simple house with bamboo
What is a home? How should it be saved? For this question, a green architect will certainly give you an answer beyond just turning off the air conditioning more often. Architects are all helping people fulfill the dream of making a home. Regarding the promotion of sustainable architecture, he also said seriously: "A home should not just be a building replicated by architects."
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What Are Biopesticide Yeasts? A Detailed Explanation of Their Functions and Benefits
Humans have used yeasts in the food fermentation industry for thousands of years. Through selected and domesticated strains, they can be used not only to produce beer and various alcoholic beverages, but also to ferment bread and steamed buns. In addition, research in recent years into their potential for plant disease control is flourishing.
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How to prevent African swine fever, and is it connected to live pig transport vehicles?
To prevent African swine fever, live pig transport vehicles are not subject to regulation and could become a black hole, so what should we do? Let's find out together. How is it best to defend against it? China's African swine fever epidemic situation is not transparent, and Taiwan's epidemic prevention authorities are on edge. Facing the discovery in recent days of ham sausages from China in a riverside park in Taipei and at a school in Nantou, the Council of Agriculture on the 8th gathered experts and scholars to discuss follow-up African swine fever prevention measures. At the meeting, many experts had already begun to worry: once African swine fever breaks out in Taiwan, is there really any way to trace and monitor it? Among them, live pig transport vehicles became the main target of criticism.
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What is the whole process of how bees collect nectar?
With the rise of the health-preservation trend, eating natural honey has become a global craze, but people know only a little about honey and bee ecology. Wu Shuhui, an assistant researcher in the Botanical Garden Division of the Taiwan Forestry Research Institute who is in charge of curation, said that many people love eating honey but do not know where honey comes from.
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Antibacterial substances from silkworm pupae can be added to animal feed to reduce antibiotic use
In recent years, the Miaoli District Agricultural Research and Extension Station (hereinafter referred to as the Miaoli Station) has found through research that antibacterial substances produced by silkworm pupae can be further developed into functional animal feed additives, a move expected to effectively reduce the amount of antibiotics added when raising economic animals.
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Latest news on African swine fever: carcass of a pot-bellied pig found in Taipei city today
The Taipei City Government already set up a "city-level inter-agency prevention and response task force" on the 4th. As the African swine fever epidemic has drawn intense public attention, the Animal Protection Office urged that people should not panic if they find a sick pig, and that once a pig owner is found to have arbitrarily dumped a carcass, they will instead be fined in accordance with the law, with the result being even more of a loss than a gain.
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How to Identify Panama Disease in Bananas: A Detailed Guide to Symptom Recognition
The bananas commonly seen in supermarkets are also prone to the disease known as "Panama disease," which has earned the nickname of banana cancer. Panama disease has no cure, severely impacting banana farmers' income and also affecting the stability of supply for Taiwan bananas sold to Japan. At one point, Taiwan's banana planting area dropped from 50,000 hectares to 9,000 hectares. Let's take a look below.
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What are some modern agricultural technologies? These three treasures are products of technological development
The Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute's fruit and vegetable cultivation greenhouse uses a double-net and insect-proof walkway design to reduce pest problems inside the greenhouse, and by adjusting crop cultivation row and plant spacing to reserve space for small agricultural machinery to move through, the number of plants cultivated per unit area not only does not decrease, but can also be coordinated with agricultural machinery for
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How to grow sprouts at home? A detailed guide to home growing methods
Sprouts can be grown in several ways; some are suited to water culture, while others require soil culture. First, let's talk about water-cultured sprouts. Among the sprouts suited to water culture, the most standard and most popular are alfalfa sprouts and mung bean sprouts; in addition, soybeans and black beans can also be grown without soil, as long as
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