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Toxin that boosts the virulence of Metarhizium anisopliae discovered by scientists
Researchers from the Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Department of Entomology at the University of Maryland in the United States have discovered a neurotoxin that can enhance the virulence of an insecticide, providing important material for the application of this insecticide, as well as for studying the mechanism of action of fungal insecticides and the molecular mechanism of fungus-insect interactions. The results of this study were published in Nature Biotechnol
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Pig-and-chicken circular farming model boosts feeding efficiency
The new technology of efficient circular pig-and-chicken farming is a practical technique particularly suited to rural farmers. The method is as follows: ferment chicken manure by the lactic acid method to feed pigs. There are many ways to feed pigs with chicken manure, such as drying it, feeding it fresh, and conventional fermentation, but the lactic acid fermentation of chicken manure is best. This is because this method can turn chicken manure into a high-quality pig feed with good palatability. The fermentation method is: first dry the chicken manure to 70% dryness, then mix an appropriate amount of lactic acid bacteria and 10 kg of wheat bran or rice bran into every 100 kg of chicken manure, put it into non-toxic plastic bags or other containers
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Integrated fish-and-goose farming model boosts farmers' income by 30 percent
Mixed farming of fish and geese is, for fishermen, a scientific farming model with "ten benefits and not a single drawback." This model makes full use of water surface and land resources, and under the same conditions increases economic returns by up to 30% compared with raising fish or geese alone, making it an effective new path to prosperity for fishermen. Advantages of integrated fish-and-goose farming: geese are fully automatic, energy-saving and highly efficient aerators for fish ponds. When fish and geese are raised together, farmers need not worry about oxygen depletion in the water caused by weather changes, because in low-pressure weather geese will rush to jump into the water, bathe and chase each other, churning up the water
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