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Advancing the comprehensive reform of supply and marketing cooperatives to build a vital force and comprehensive platform for serving farmers' production and daily life
Advancing the comprehensive reform of supply and marketing cooperatives to build a vital force and comprehensive platform for serving farmers' production and daily life
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Li Chien-wei's 8 years of observing farmers' markets: Selling products or building community to avoid boredom
Li Chien-wei / 8 years of observing farmers' markets: Is it about selling products or building community? How can we avoid boredom?
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How to identify fish species? Observing appearance and color is key
First, look at the size specifications of the fish species. Fish of the same species from the same pond should be uniform and even in size when harvested, with little difference in body length and weight. Conversely, poor-quality fingerlings with large individual differences and uneven sizes often result in very low overall survival rates due to competition for food, mixed genetic stock, poor rearing, and other reasons. Second, look at the body color of the fish species. High-quality fingerlings have vivid, glossy body colors. Generally speaking, high-quality silver carp fingerlings should have a silver-gray back and silvery-white sides and belly; high-quality grass carp fingerlings have a pale golden-yellow body color, with gray-black reticulated scales that are relatively prominent, and the more robust the fish, the more obvious the pale golden-yellow color; high-quality bighead carp fingerlings mostly have a pale golden-yellow body color, with black markings across the body not very prominent. If the fingerling's body color is relatively dark, or even blackish, it indicates that the fingerling is a weak fry or diseased fish; the gloss on the body surface of fingerlings is caused by the mucus layer covering the body surface, which is the fish's first barrier of defense against disease. Diseased fish or weak fry lack the mucus layer, and their body surface has no gloss.
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Tulip flower-preserving secrets: master these methods for more brilliant blooms
1. Before placing the tulips you bought into a vase, first use a sharp knife to cut a long, thin slit at the lower part of the stem, so the flowers can absorb water more easily. 2. Unlike most cut flowers, as long as there is plenty of fresh water, tulips do not need any other flower nutrients. Change the water daily with a fresh vase of cool water, keep the flowers away from any direct radiation (sunlight or TV radiation), and care for them gently; the flowers will reward you with a charming floral display. Usually, tulips bloom within two to three days, and the flowering period can last up to a week or even a little longer. 3. Tulips have a tendency to lean toward
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What are the new technologies for preserving cut tulips?
Harvesting stage: For Darwin varieties, cut when the flower bud is half colored and half green; for other varieties, cut when the entire bud is colored. Tulips should be cut several times a day, which makes the cut flowers uniform and gives them the best postharvest life. Storage and transport conditions: Cut tulips can be stored dry or wet for short periods. Varieties with a short postharvest life (such as Apollo) can be stored wet in water at 3°C for 3 days, or stored dry at 0-1°C for 6 days; varieties with a longer life (such as Aladdin and others) can be stored for about 3 days longer under the same conditions. From the soil
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Technical methods for diagnosing bee diseases by observing bee bodies
Sick bees often appear dazed, slow to react, lacking vitality, unable to take flight, restless, resting on one side, or slowly rolling and crawling inside or outside the hive. Head. A healthy bee's head moves freely; when it shows head shaking and scratching, it may have parasites such as bee mites. Wings. A healthy bee has 4 intact wings that open and close freely and allow free flight; sick bees have incomplete wings, or trembling wing beats and loss of flight ability. Some young bees have curled wings, which is mostly caused by curled-wing disease; incomplete wings are mostly caused by bee mite damage.
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What are the methods for storing and preserving mushrooms?
The main factors affecting mushroom preservation are as follows: Temperature: the higher the temperature, the worse the preservation of mushrooms. 0-4°C is the suitable temperature for mushroom preservation. Apart from quick freezing, temperatures below 0°C can easily cause freezing damage. Water quality: when the iron or copper content in water exceeds 2 mg/L, the color of mushrooms darkens and turns brown, so iron and copper utensils and tools are prohibited. Humidity: 95-100% is required. Below 90%, the color darkens and the caps tend to open and spoil. Gas composition: an important cause of spoilage, which can be suppressed by sterilization and adjusting the pH value. Enzyme activity: polyphenol ox
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Key Technical Points for Harvesting and Preserving Carnation Cuttings
[Other Chinese Names] Large-flowered Pink, Clove Pink, Dutch Pink, Dutch Carnation, Carnation, Carnation, Carnation, Musk Carnation [Family and Genus] Caryophyllaceae, Dianthus [Place of Origin] Southern Europe [Plant Characteristics] Carnation is a perennial herbaceous plant. Plant height 30-70 cm. Stems clustered, woody at the base, nodes prominent, covered with white powder. Leaves simple, opposite, linear, apex obtuse, base hard, both surfaces covered with white powder. [Cutting Harvest] The harvested part is the top shoots of the carnation. In order to obtain ideal propagation results
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Reasons for Yield Reduction in Continuous and Alternate Soybean Cropping and Yield-Preserving Techniques
I. Reasons for Yield Reduction in Continuous and Alternate Soybean Cropping Continuous and alternate soybean cropping causes plants to grow slowly and become short, with yellowing leaves, fewer pods, and fewer seeds, ultimately leading to a significant reduction in yield. In the short term, continuous and alternate cropping intensifies the damage from cyst nematodes, root maggots, root rot, pod borers, gray leaf spot, and malignant weeds, causes unbalanced depletion of soil nutrients, leads to deficiencies in soil nutrient elements, increases pathogenic fungi and decreases beneficial bacteria in the soil, and produces certain toxins, resulting in a severe decline in soybean yield and quality. In the long term, after long-term accumulation and reproduction, diseases, insects
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Key Technical Points for Harvesting and Preserving Cut Carnation Flowers
[Other Chinese names]Large-flowered pink, clove pink, Dutch pink, Dutch carnation, carnation, carnation, carnation, musk carnation[Family and genus]Caryophyllaceae, Dianthus[Place of origin]Southern Europe[Plant characteristics]Carnation is a perennial herbaceous plant. Plant height 30-70 cm. Flowers solitary, or 2-5 in cymes, 8-9 cm in diameter; pedicels long; petals 5, connate, obovate, apex of the limb with irregular teeth, white, pink, purple, etc.; cultivated varieties are often double. Natural flowering period April-June.
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