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How Is Soil Fertility Tested? Fertility Characteristics of Soils with Different Textures and Rational Fertilization
Soil is the foundation of crop growth. During cultivation, applying too much fertilizer not only wastes fertilizer resources and pollutes the environment over the long term - for example, nitrogen fertilizer polluting groundwater and excessively high nitrate concentrations in plants - but also easily causes the soil to become "sick" and degraded, making it difficult to provide
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After Taiwan, China's egg prices soared, they have stabilized again. With supply and demand balanced, how much is one jin now?
In February this year, a nationwide egg shortage crisis broke out, and the Council of Agriculture at one point imported eggs from abroad to make up for domestic demand. At that time, the farm-gate price of eggs reached as high as 36.5 yuan per Taiwan jin, but starting in March, egg prices gradually stabilized. On April 15, the farm-gate price of eggs came to 31.
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Is Gladiolus a long-day plant? Plants suitable for growing alongside it
Gladiolus is a widely popular flowering plant that frequently features in floral arrangements. Beyond bouquets, gladiolus also looks great in flower beds and garden borders. It particularly loves sunlight; without exposure to sunlight, this plant will quickly die. It is a typical
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Taiwan guava production and sales are stable with steady prices: how much per jin, and how many tons marketed
To stabilize vegetable and fruit prices, the Council of Agriculture has rolled out three arrows: exports, processing and direct sales. An export platform was also set up recently. The Council of Agriculture recently invited the top 100 enterprises, the eight major banks, state-owned enterprises, airline caterers, five-star hotels, and supermarket and hypermarket channels to launch a "public-private collaborative agricultural product promotion platform" to help market agricultural products.
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New changes to the 2019 fishing moratorium policy, with rewards during the moratorium period to protect the recovery of marine resources
To encourage fishermen to observe the fishing moratorium in port during a certain period, the Fisheries Agency originally established the "Voluntary Fishing Moratorium Implementation Guidelines," and recently, in accordance with Article 59-1, Paragraph 2 of the Fisheries Act, announced the "Voluntary Fishing Moratorium Reward Regulations," in which the reward amount for each sampan and fishing raft
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Three-Pronged Approach to Fruit Fly Control: Trapping and Orchard Cleanup Combined with Biological Control to Reduce Damage
As summer approaches, temperatures rise, and the Oriental fruit fly (Bactrocera dorsalis) begins to stir into action. Not only are the public's favorite mango and guava easily affected, but the red date (jujube), often used for warming tonics, is also a favorite food of fruit fly larvae. The Miaoli District Agricultural Research and Extension Station reminds that red dates, unlike general
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How should the eggs of the litchi stink bug be disposed of? Using Anastatus wasps still requires pairing with physical control methods
Recently, as temperatures have gradually risen, reports of large numbers of litchi stink bugs (Tessaratoma papillosa) activity and breeding have been coming in from all over Taiwan, China. Because the litchi stink bug causes reduced fruit yields in longan and litchi, farmers mostly use pesticide spraying and manual pest removal for control, or release Anastatus wasps to suppress litchi stink bug numbers.
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New vegetable bean variety Taichung No. 6: dwarf, high-yielding, with great export potential to Japan
The main production area for edamame is in the Gaoping region, but edamame cannot be produced in winter, and growers hope to fill this gap with vegetable beans. On the 25th, the Taichung District Agricultural Research and Extension Station unveiled "Taichung No. 6" dwarf vegetable bean, which can use the existing mechanized harvesting equipment and cold chain equipment for edamame.
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Is chives the vegetable or fruit with the most serious pesticide residues?
A pesticide residue survey of fruits and vegetables by the Agricultural Chemicals and Toxic Substances Research Institute found that the top fruit was strawberry, followed by passion fruit and citrus, while for vegetables the top was celery, followed by peas and radish. But there is no need to be too nervous, because if we look further
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Garden Pea Planting Plan with Intercropping, Succession Planting, and Pruning Methods
Garden peas, including shelling peas, snow peas, and snap peas, have two characteristics that make them strong candidates for a super-productive planting plan. First, peas vine upward, and their vertical habit makes it possible to grow low-growing crops at their base. Second
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