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How should soybeans be harvested properly? A full breakdown of the key methods
Soybeans should be harvested promptly once mature. If harvesting is too late, the pods lose too much moisture and are prone to shattering and dropping seeds, causing losses. The suitable harvest period should be determined according to different harvest methods. When harvesting with a sickle, begin harvesting after all soybean leaves have fallen, as nutrient transport to the seeds has essentially stopped by then. Mechanical harvesting must be done after the whole plant is fully mature and dry. Manual harvesting is best done in the morning, when the soybean plants have a higher moisture content, so they do not prick the hands and are less prone to pod shattering. A low stubble height is required, with no "horse ears" left exposed and no missed cutting.
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How to prevent respiratory disease in chickens? A full breakdown of practical measures
Measures to prevent respiratory disease in chickens: 1. Select chicks of reliable quality and carry out vaccination properly. Choose hatching eggs free of disease infection to hatch chicks, ensuring the chicks' health. At the same time, the purchased chicks should be properly vaccinated against infectious bursal disease, infectious bronchitis, infectious laryngotracheitis and infectious coryza to prevent the invasion of pathogens such as mycoplasma, which is also the key to preventing chronic respiratory disease. 2. Strengthen feeding management and reduce stress factors. In winter and spring, when the weather is cold, it is essential to greatly strengthen
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How to make Superior Stock Crab Box Shark Fin so it is fresh, fragrant and full of flavor
Main ingredient: soaked shark fin. Ingredients: shrimp paste, crab meat, superior stock. Method: mix the shrimp paste with the crab meat, stuff the shark fin on top, place in a steamer, and after 15 minutes, take it out and pour in the superior stock, then simmer for 10 minutes and it is done. Characteristics: fresh and fragrant taste, refreshing texture
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How Are Russian Olive Foods Developed and Utilized? A Full Explanation of Pathways and Value
Russian olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia L.), also known as Guixiang willow, silver willow, or Qilixiang, belongs to the Elaeagnaceae family, genus Elaeagnus. It is an evergreen shrub. Russian olive is light-demanding, cold-tolerant, highly resistant to wind-blown sand and saline-alkali conditions, grows fast, has wide uses, and holds high economic value. Russian olive is distributed in Shaanxi, Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, **, Qinghai and other places; in ** it is found in the Taklamakan Desert and along the banks of various rivers, and it is also distributed in Yili, Toksun and other places in northern **. Russian olive is a "treasure tree" of desert saline-alkali land; its edible value and medicinal value are both very high, and it has great potential for development into green foods.
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A Full Analysis of the Key Points of Pear Cultivation Techniques in the South
With the development of pear production, the original pear varieties in Tongxiang gradually revealed their shortcomings: the fruit-setting performance of Huanghua pear is unstable, and its ripening period is vulnerable to typhoons, while the ripening period of Xinshiji is prone to fruit cracking, causing heavy losses in some years. To adapt to market demand, pear varieties mainly consisting of Cuiguan and Cuilv have been promoted in recent years, achieving good benefits. 1.
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How is candied potato processed? A full breakdown of the detailed processing technique
1. Material selection: Select potato tubers that are uniform in size, plump, smooth on the surface, and free of green spots to make candied potato. 2. Shaping: Wash the soil off the tubers with clean water, remove the skin and wash again, then cut into blank pieces of various shapes as needed. 3. Soaking: Put the shaped blanks into a container, pour in a certain concentration of dilute limewater and soak for 16 hours, then take them out and rinse in clean water 4 times, 2 hours each time. 4. Boiling the blanks: Put the soaked blanks into boiling water and boil for 20 minutes, then put them into clean water
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How to Choose Honeysuckle Varieties? A Full Analysis of Seed Selection Techniques
The scientific name of honeysuckle is Lonicera japonica, a semi-evergreen perennial twining vine shrub. It is a commonly used traditional Chinese medicinal herb, known as a natural broad-spectrum antibiotic. At the same time, honeysuckle can also be made into a precious beverage. In recent years, with the expansion of honeysuckle's application fields, its cultivation has moved from extensive management to concentrated operation, from a prostrate growth habit to an upright growth habit, and from one flower harvest per year to four flower harvests per year, greatly increasing yield and significantly improving cultivation benefits. At present, many places are introducing or expanding cultivation, but if variety selection is not taken seriously, the results will be contrary to expectations.
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Under full-light cultivation of Schisandra chinensis, Welsh onion or Schisandra chinensis seedlings can be intercropped
To make full use of the land between the rows of cultivated Schisandra chinensis, before the Schisandra chinensis plants reach fruit-bearing at 4 years of age, intercropping Welsh onion or Schisandra chinensis seedlings can yield certain economic benefits to offset the costs of cultivating Schisandra chinensis. I. Planning 1. When Schisandra chinensis is cultivated with a row spacing of 1.5 m and a plant spacing of 0.5 m, the available inter-row land area per mu (667 sq m) of Schisandra chinensis orchard is as follows: for each mu (667 sq m) of land, estimated by a long side of 33 m and a short side of 20 m (660 sq m), with a row spacing of 1.5 m, 22 rows can be laid out, each 20 m long; at the early stage of cultivation, the horizontal spread of the Schisandra chinensis root system is not large, so the width of the Schisandra chinensis seedling belt can be kept at 80 cm (40 cm on each side), the usable inter-row width is 70 cm, leaving a ditch width of 10 cm on each side, and one ridge 50 cm wide can be formed, on which 2 rows of Welsh onion are planted, with a row spacing of 10-15 cm and a plant spacing of 10 cm. Based on this calculation, each inter-row space can plant 10 sq m of Welsh onion, and each mu of Schisandra chinensis orchard can plant 22 rows of Welsh onion, requiring 9,680 Welsh onion sets; each Welsh onion set is 1.5-2 cm in diameter, about 80 per jin, so about 120 jin of Welsh onion sets are needed, and the plantable Welsh onion area is 220 sq m.
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New colorful soybean varieties successfully cultivated in Henan
A type of soybean displaying a riot of colors has recently been successfully cultivated by the Agricultural Science Institute of the Huangfanqu Farm in Henan Province and has begun to be vigorously promoted. Besides the commonly seen yellow, this soybean also comes in black, red, green and other colors, and each color is further divided into several sub-varieties according to the depth of its shade. Colorful soybeans are a high-efficiency cash crop; besides being eaten, they also have high ornamental and medicinal value. Compared with the ordinary soybeans cultivated in the past, the newly cultivated colorful soybeans show no difference in planting techniques or yield. According to expert predictions, the market
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Soybean molecular breeding technology successfully developed by South Korea
The Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of South Korea's Rural Development Administration recently successfully developed a soybean molecular breeding technology, which means that South Korea's mass production of organic soybeans containing anti-cancer components will become a reality. South Korea's regeneration technology for soybean plant bodies through tissue culture is not well developed, so trait-transformed soybeans are mainly imported from the United States. The Rural Development Administration revealed that molecular breeding technology is called third-generation genetic engineering technology. Using this technology, soybeans with higher added value can be produced, which is of great significance for increasing farmers' income.
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