2 edition of Impact evaluation of Northwest Crop Diversification Project found in the catalog.
Impact evaluation of Northwest Crop Diversification Project
Mohammed Eusuf Ali
2010 by Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division, Ministry of Planning, Govt. of Bangladesh] in [Dhaka .
Written in English
|Statement||Mohammed Eusuf Ali ... [et al.] ; carried out by Evaluation Sector, Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division, Ministry of Planning, Govt. of the People"s Republic of Bangladesh ; conducted by Eusuf and Associates|
|Contributions||Bangladesh. Bāstabāẏana Paribīkshaṇa o Mulyāẏana Bibhāga. Evaluation Wing, Eusuf and Associates|
|LC Classifications||HD2075.6.Z9A-.Z9ZR (H9)+|
|The Physical Object|
|Pagination||ix, 111 p. :|
|Number of Pages||111|
|LC Control Number||2010308843|
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All new to us and learning to work together, Mrs. Currie (Laurel), Penny Goodman, and me, Ms Sharon. Learning to garden in beds, sowing, tilling, planting, feeding, harvesting and sharing the harvest. Volunteer. Students, teachers, classrooms, science, art in the garden. Draw what we see.
I’m approaching this garden with the joy of plants, sharing in this garden with other knowledgeable gardeners and adding art to the garden. I’d list my ideas, but what if I can’t get to them all? So here’s weekly posts of our efforts of learning to garden together, figuring out how to get as many students involved (and teachers/adults), plus adding some art in the garden and of course drawing in the garden. Summer hours of gathering, Tuesdays 8:30 – 9:30 and now Wednesdays 1:45 – 2:30 until the beds are cleaned up for winter.
October 13 – A bit of entertainment before we started clearing the beds.
October 13 – Well – clean up time. Those sunflowers were a lot harder to pull out than expected. Found a few stray onions. Covered the pumpkins hoping they turn a bit more yellow to orange. Harvested the green tomatoes and have them ripening in my classroom. Penny also shared pickled watermelon rinds left from last week.
October 6 – Harvesting all that we can . . .frost in the forecast. Oh My! the watermelon was sooooooo yummy.
September 29 – not too many helpers, but what cuties! Holding out for the watermelon. We’re hoping that it will be tasty.
September 22 – Harvesting and sharing more potatoes, beans, carrots, radishes and watering the potted plants.
September 15 – Harvesting and sharing with more families
September 8 – random photos and lots of flowers
August 31 – harvesting!!! Thora was the green bean queen looking and finding beans. The Current Tomatoes are so darn small and tasty. Happened to find the zucchini at the last minute and the kiddos shared it. The biggest surprise was the watermelons! We trimmed some runners hoping it will help the watermelons grow bigger. And a very delightful surprise . . .two hummingbirds visited twice while we all were there. I just might have to draw hummingbirds this week. The last pick was only two of the four bags of food for the helpers. ❣🧡💛💚💙💜❣
August 24 -Buddies in the garden. Love it when there are kiddos that actually eat veggies!
August 17 – Loving the garden
August 10 – harvesting and Penny shared ground tomatoes from her garden . . .gotta grow these next year.
August 10 – more reference photos
August 3 – Enjoyed!
August 3 – harvesting potatoes!!!
July 27 – thinning carrots, new peas growing, weeding, watering and love the sunflowers
July 27 – Leaf rubbings
July 20 – Checked out the potatoes, harvesting and a bit drippy for the leave rubbing art. We’ll try again next week.
July 13 – helping in the garden
July 13 – Drawing the garden beds from a different angle. And adding watercolors learning a bit more about mixing colors to get just what is needed for the drawing.
July 13 – Yummy treats from the garden with Ritz crackers or cheese sticks.
June 29 – Also . . . drawing a plant from the garden then adding watercolors to the pencil drawing. A very pleasant morning before the extreme heat.
June 29 – We harvested lettuce of all kinds, kale, peas, borage flowers, carrot tops and some of us wrapped the garden yummies around a cheese stick. Plus each family unit went home with a bag of harvest.
June 29 – We tended to the garden
June 29 – 8:30 this morning
June 22 – Printmaking with garden leaves. Then onto drawing a plant or two in the garden. Thank you Meagan H. for taking photos while my hands were messy.
June 22 – Potato plants are starting to bloom . . .gorgeous! And discovered strawberry plants growing in the walkway. They are staked on both sides – hopefully protected if someone gets the urge to mow or weed-whack.
June 22 – a bit of weeding and watering, then checking out bugs and plants with magnifying glasses.
June 22 – My own drawings(from the last couple of weeks) and couple of prints. Plus I added garden lettuce to my cream cheese, apple slices, and homemade bread sandwich. 🙂
For you Penny. Went and turned off the water . . .the garden is wet enough for a few days.
June 15 2021 – A stormy early morning and we wondered if we’d actually not get rained on. We weeded, planted more radishes and started a small row of beets.
June 15, 2021 – Drawing with pencil. A study of plants.
June 10, 2021 – took Mrs. Currie’s class out during art. They harvested radishes and lettuce for a salad they were preparing that day. And we did some drawing. I was so impressed with the enthusiasm and details from these 2nd graders. Fills my heart with joy! ❤
June 8 – Sent Thora with my camera to take photos – this is her view. 😉
June 8 – a couple of views with adding a row of rainbow chard seeds (Thora’s cute hands) and transplanting poppies and fennel. Plus Thora took a pic of Penny (BCGA Volunteer) and me (Ms. Sharon/Ona). So thankful for Penny’s enthusiasm to help us out.
June 8 – Drawing in the garden.
June 1 – added food to the tomato plants and Epsom salt around some plants.
May 31 – Checked on the garden to make sure all was good. There was a leak at one end a soaker and some big fat worms surfaced.
May 26 – Tending and adding to the garden.
May 25 – just and over view of the five beds
May 19 – Planting Mammoth Sunflower starts from Polly (our office secretary/coordinator)
May 18 – working with Penny and Laurel after school.
May 18 – photo shoot of ‘baby’ plants – great reference photos to draw from.
May 11 – tending the garden and figuring out the watering system.
April 29 – May 6
April 28 – (Laurel)Mrs. Currie’s class, planting onions, weeding
March 31 – Mrs. Currie’s class has been out weeding prior to this date and you’ll notice some don’t want to get their hands dirty. 😉 This is my first photo documentation of the garden excitement. We will be learning a lot this season on better ways to involve students, classrooms, and add some art in the garden, plus harvesting and sharing food grown. 2021 FAST Garden Club begins!
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As the popularity of Grassfed/Grass finished beef increased, the Planz Family decided to drift away from the traditional grain finished steers that they were producing and venture into this new market that was demanded for a healthier lifestyle.
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|Temperature and nutrients are major limiting factors in subarctic tundra. Experimental manipulation of nutrient availability along elevational gradients (and thus temperature) can improve our understanding of ecological responses to climate change. However, no study to date has explored impacts of nutrient addition along a tundra elevational gradient, or across contrasting vegetation types along any elevational gradient. We set up a full factorial nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) fertilization experiment in each of two vegetation types (heath and meadow) at 500 m, 800 m, and 1000 m elevation in northern Swedish tundra. We predicted that plant and microbial communities in heath or at lower elevations would be more responsive to N addition while communities in meadow or at higher elevations would be more responsive to P addition, and that fertilizer effects would vary more with elevation for the heath than for the meadow. Although our results provided little support for these predictions, the relationship between nutrient limitation and elevation differed between vegetation types. Most plant and microbial properties were responsive to N and/or P fertilization, but responses often varied with elevation and/or vegetation type. For instance, vegetation density significantly increased with N + P fertilization relative to the other fertilizer treatments, and this increase was greatest at the lowest elevation for the heath but at the highest elevation for the meadow. Arbuscular mycorrhizae decreased with P fertilization at 500 m for the meadow, but with all fertilizer treatments in both vegetation types at 800 m. Fungal to bacterial ratios were enhanced by N + P fertilization for the two highest elevations in the meadow only. Additionally, microbial responses to fertilization were primarily direct rather than indirect via plant responses, pointing to a decoupled response of plant and microbial communities to nutrient addition and elevation. Because our study shows how two community types differ in their responses to fertilization and elevation, and because the temperature range across this gradient is similar to 3 degrees C, our study is informative about how nutrient limitation in tundra may be influenced by temperature shifts that are comparable to those expected under climate change during this century.


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Case study: Data drives gains in grass and tree cover
March 07 2022
- Rob and Melinee Leather and family own and operate Leather Cattle Company, including 4,500 head run over 7,500 hectares in Central Queensland.
- Significant investment has been made to enhance sustainability, including planting Leucaena and growing the balance of grass and tree cover.
- The results speak for themselves, with data reflecting key improvements in soil organic carbon.


The J.R. Simplot Company is visiting campus next week. They are one of the largest privately held food and agribusiness companies in the nation. They pride themselves on being innovators in plant nutrition and food processing, researching new ways to feed animals and sustain ecosystems, and striving to feed a growing global population.
What: Student focused presentation
Where: Mandan Room at the Memorial Union
When: Monday, April 9, 2018 from 5:30-7:30pm
Space is limited. Please contact the Career Center at 701-231-7111 to RSVP by Wednesday, April 4th, 2018.


The mycotoxin adsorber B.I.O.Tox® Farm is based on a complex and highly efficient formulation of inorganic and organic mycotoxin binders for the adsorption of mycotoxins. It can be used directly by the farmer as a mineral feed supplement.
Appropriate levels of B.I.O.Tox® Farm are added to feed, depending on the severity of the mycotoxin contamination.
Binds polar and non-polar mycotoxins
Increases feed uptake
Supports intestinal stability
Packaging: 30 Kg bags


CALLING ON OBAMA & VILSACK TO STOP USE OF MONSANTOS’ ROUNDUP READY®
Dear President Obama and Secretary Vilsack,
I urge that you stop the sale and planting of Monsantos’ manipulated products, recently approved Roundup Ready® GMO alfalfa and sugar beets, until independent, peer-reviewed studies can be conducted to determine whether or not these products pose a threat to plant-animal and our human health.
On January 17 of this year, Dr. Don Huber, an internationally recognized plant pathologist, wrote Secretary Vilsack an urgent letter warning of a credible threat to animal and human health and our food supply. The letter warned of a link between RoundUp Ready GMO crops, the use of the herbicide Glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup), and serious plant diseases and animal infertility, and abortions.
Dr. Huber’s letter detailed the discovery of an organism previously unknown to science by a team of U.S. scientists that had linked to alarming levels of infertility and spontaneous abortions in livestock. The organism has been found in high concentrations in RoundUp Ready Corn, Soybean Meal and Distillers Grain fed to these animals, resulting in infertility rates as high as 20% and spontaneous abortion rates as high as 45% in cattle herds.
Unfortunately, the administration and USDA have failed to heed this warning and properly respond, despite serious and credible concerns laid out in his letter. Rather than proceed with caution after receiving such alarming information, the Obama administration chose to bow to pressure from vested interests in the agriculture industry and fully deregulate Monsanto’s Roundup Ready® alfalfa and sugar beets less than 3 weeks after receiving Dr. Huber’s letter.
As a result of this failure to conduct due diligence, the decision to deregulate these crops should be reversed, and the White House and the USDA should impose a moratorium on the sale and planting of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready alfalfa and sugar beet seeds until independent studies have been conducted documenting their safety.
Furthermore, the practice of allowing Monsanto and other companies to provide internal, corporate-funded studies while interfering with and intimidating independent scientists and researchers must end.
It is vital to the future of our democracy and the safety of American citizens that scientists and governmental agencies conduct and review independent scientific studies on the environmental, animal, and human health implications of genetically modified crops and foods.
A copy of this letter was sent to President Obama and Agriculture Secretary Vilsack and comments from friends and scientists… Yup, no response!
FootNote: Monsanto’s Roundup and its allegedly carcinogenic, primary ingredient glyphosate have been most strongly connected to causing non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) in people heavily exposed to the herbicide in their work; as Commercial farmers, Horticulturists, Lawn maintenance workers, Groundskeepers, Soil scientists…


High rice yield in heavy saline-alkali soil of NE China
On Oct. 10, experts organized by the Cultivated Land Quality Monitoring and Protection Center (CLQMPC) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) estimated the yield of a demonstration paddy field with heavy saline-alkali soil.
On this land, a 1,000 mu (about 67 hectares) field in Da'an City of northeast China's Jilin province, the experts randomly selected three plots for harvest and yield calculation. After land measuring, weighing, moisture measuring, impurity removal, and other strict procedures, the results showed that the average yield per mu of the three pieces was 659.714 kg, up 50.99% compared with 436.921 kg per mu of the control fields.
"The yield per hectare is close to a staggering 10,000 kg, which is the level of the high-yielding rice fields in our city," said Li Jinyou, an official from Da'an Natural Resources Bureau.
"Even grass couldn't survive on such saline-alkali soil," said Li Guo, a rice farmer of a selected plot. "Previous attempts only led to a yield of less than 2,000 kg per hectare. Now the yield has multiplied."
Da'an City is located in the heart of Songnen Plain, one of the world's three major tracts of soda saline-alkali land. Known as "soil cancer," saline-alkali land exhibits problems such as soil compaction, low content of organic matter and poor soil physicochemical properties, all of which are unsuitable for crop growth.
The soil in the demonstration field was ameliorated through organosilicon soil conditioner and a set of technical routes for saline-alkali soil treatment. These new technologies were developed by Hebei Silicon Valley Research Institute of Agricultural Sciences.
These technologies can promote soil granulation and improve permeability, both favorable to the propagation of beneficial organisms. It can also hinder the rise of salt-bearing groundwater to make the arable layer less salinized. Under such circumstances, the irrigation water tends to seep down, taking salt away from the surface.
"Our conditioner also contains nutrients that can meet the growth needs of crops and create a good environment for their root system, improving both yield and quality," noted Nie Hongmin, a technical expert with the research institute.
The cultivated land in China is divided into one to ten grades based on its quality from high to low. According to a MARA bulletin on the quality grade of cultivated land in China in 2019, the area of cultivated land evaluated as grade four to ten in northeast China is 215 million mu, of which 66 million mu is saline-alkali land.
"The improvement of every 10 million mu of saline-alkali cultivated land in northeast China will lead to an increase of five billion kg in the overall grain production. This is a successful demonstration. We hope these new technologies and models can be applied widely to saline-alkali land, converting saline-alkali wastelands into high-yield farmland," commented Li Rong, deputy director of CLQMPC.


Welcome to Biolex – a database of solid biomass fuels
Biolex is a database that contains information about the composition and important characteristics such as e.g. heating value and ash melting of solid biomass fuels.
Biolex gives gives you the opportunity to achieve information about both analyses data from single samples as well as average data from different catagories of solid biomass fuel. It also offers the possibility to compare properties between different solid bio fuels.
The database is focusing on solid biomass fuels that are utilized or produced in Denmark e.g. wood chips and wheat straw. Furthermore it contains several samples of more uncommon solid biomass fuels that have potential to be used as future biomass fuel e.g. olive stones, husks, etc.
At present the database contains about 300 samples and will grow further due to updates with new samples analyzed by the partners of the project and FORCE Technology.
The aim of the database is to provide the public, scientific and industrial community the opportunity to answer typical questions such as:
What is the average ash content of wood pellets?
What is the heating value of olive stones?
What sulfur (S) concentrations are normal in wheat straw?
How does the composition of olive stones compare to wood pellets?
Due to the fact that the Biolex database is attempted to be used by both professionals as well as curios beginners, some general explanations on typical analyzed proporties and why these are important for the evaluation and characterization of biomass fuels, have been added to the website.
The web page does also comprise a short introduction to the European CEN classification for solid biomass fuels. The data and samplea in the Biolex database are structured according to this new classification.


Welcome to Wallington Wines
Margaret & Anthony Wallington, moved from Sydney in 1990 to escape the city life for the fresh country air. Over the next 10 years, in conjunction with raising 4 young daughters, Anthony and Margaret embarked on a dream of creating boutique wine.
A family owned, biodynamic & organic winery. Our wines are made from hand picked grapes, from vines that produce low yields of intensely flavoured fruit. The grapes are crushed and pressed in our straw bale winery. The juice then goes through a wild yeast fermentation giving the wines an individual quality. The reds are open vat fermented and basket pressed to mature in a variety of oak barrels for up to 2 years before being bottled. Passing through the family generation now, Margaret hands over the wine making to her third eldest daughter Nadja and her partner Steve. Together the family continues the unique brand of Wallington Wines.
At Wallington Wines, we are more than just a winery and vineyard. We use sustainable farming practices in all aspects of the farm including our sheep, cattle and cropping productions. The vineyard is worked via a system of careful biodynamic practices, to ensure a quality in our grapes strictly unique to our name. We invite group bookings or any travellers passing by to visit our cellar door winery and learn the art of wine making during various seasons of the year. We also cater for farm stays, lunches, dinners, private parties and wine tastings throughout the year as well as being heavily involved in local tourism events. Wallington Wines continue to be proud leaders in organic wine practices and being family owned, are proud supporters of small businesses of Australia. Come and experience being part of the family that is, Wallington Wines.


Moles exist in various environments and attack gardens and lawns causing massive destruction of essential plants. As a way of mitigating such losses, people need to know how to get rid of moles in the fastest and most efficient ways possible.
Moles are parasitic animals which live in the soil. They depend on insects as their primary source of food. These animals burrow in the grounds and dig underground channels which interfere with the development of plant roots in the garden.
Through these tunnels, they can cause other detrimental effects to the plants and also expose them to rats, squirrels and other rodents.
They exist in large numbers in places where there is an influx of organic material. Having moles in your garden is likely to degrade nutrient availability in the soils leading to the stunted growth of crops. The quality of soil also deteriorates with time, and that is every reason why you should get rid of ground moles from your lands.
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How Deep do Moles Dig?
Some moles make shallow tunnels measuring 12 inches using sharp claws. Most of the time the pests use their foreclaws to dig deep holes into the ground forming tunnels.
These tunnels may extend over time to about 40 inches underneath the ground and become their permanent habitats. It is important to note that within an hour, the moles can dig as deep as 15 feet.
It is a mystery yet these creatures have circulatory systems which can withstand the formation of carboxyhemoglobin in erythrocytes without causing fatal effects. They breathe the expired air for survival underground.
How To Get Rid of Moles In The Yard
Moles are notorious and love infesting beautifully planted lawns within home yards. You need to know how to identify the tunnels that they use frequently. Upon identification, you can adopt a strategy of covering all the holes on the molehill.
Then check after a few days. Holes, where the covers are missing, are the active tunnels. You can then install traps such as lure traps, loop choking style traps or even the regular circular rodent traps at the entrance of the tunnels or within the pits.
If the approach is unsuccessful, call a professional with experience in pest control to handle the mole eradication exercise. One can also fill the underground tunnels with a solid material such as stones since they are too hard to dig through.
You can as well use dry ice at the open ends of the tunnels. It helps by producing carbon IV oxide gas which chocks and suffocates the pests. The use of Wind spinners also leads to the destruction of moles since they are irritated by noise and vibrations.
Dawn soap is a home remedy used for removing ground moles. You can use water with the soap to make application of the soap easier. Alternatively, you can mix the dawn soap with castor oil to make it more useful.
Ensure that the ratio of castor oil and dawn soap to water in the solution is higher than that of water to castor oil and dawn soap. Then apply the mixture to your lawn or yard periodically until all the moles die. During rainy seasons, use the solution after the downpour.
Juicy Gum Fruit
Getting rid of moles using juicy gum fruits is easy. You can add the substance or its juices into the holes dug by the moles. It works by luring and enticing the ground moles. Upon ingestion, the moles will chock and die.
Are There Any Advantages Of Moles?
In as much as moles cause massive destruction, they also have benefits. When burrowing into the soil, moles create tunnels that help in aerating the soil. The growth rate then increases exponentially since the lawn gets nutrients such as oxygen during aeration.
Additionally, they help in destroying pathogenic and parasitic insects that may be affecting the growth of your lawn negatively. Ground moles feed on insects and hence that works to your advantage. They also destroy unwanted grass that grows around the ridges.
Moles can be an absolute nightmare and ruin your hard work in the garden with their deep holes. Although there are plenty of methods of getting rid of them yourself, there are plenty of companies that specialize in pest control in the US. For example, you can call a professional with experience in pest control like Terminix, who not only work all over the USA but provide a tailored approach to pest control that’s also eco-friendly.
If you are happy to get your hands dirty, we strongly recommend giving it ago yourself. Worst case if unsuccessful, there are plenty of professionals that can get rid of the moles and avoid the continual damage they can cause.


Iron deficiency causes the typical disease called Iron Chlorosis: leaves turn yellow between the veins, but the veins remain green. Yellowing is most common on new growth. The new growth may be stunted. In severe cases, leaves may die and drop prematurely.
Ferrosol 50 Foliar as fertilizer with Iron chelate with DTPA (diethylene triamine pentaacetic acid), solves the problem of Iron Chlorosis, because the high level of pH or limestone, limit the availability of this trace element in the soil.
DTPA, compared to EDTA, is much more stable even with sunlight, so Ferrosol 50 Foliar is ideal for foliar applications. Other problems for soil availability are poor soil aeration, soil salinity, low levels of Organic Matter and high content of phosphate.
Best results of Ferrosol 50 Foliar are obtained when applied before most important phenological phases (flowering, fruit development and ripening)
|Iron (Fe) soluble in water||5%|
|Iron (Fe) chelate with DTPA||5%|
|Chelating agent: diethylene triamine pentaacetic acid (DTPA)|
|pH range that guarantees good stability of the chelated fraction: 4-9|
|Raw material: Iron Chelate (DTPA)|
|Allowed in Organic Agriculture|
On all crops
1 - 3 kg/ha
Ferrosol 50 Foliar is a liquid solution, mixable with other Plant Protection Products. It has to be used just by foliar applications on all crops.
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CORE Food Pantry
Need food? CORE Food Pantry serves the communities of Northern Bayfield County including Washburn, Bayfield, Red Cliff, Cornucopia, and all other communities within the Bayfield Peninsula. There are no other eligibility requirements, so stop by to pick up food for yourself and others!
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Our goal is to provide the option of locally-grown produce to everyone who utilizes the CORE Food Pantry. Any amount of produce is truly appreciated--even just a few of those overly abundant cucumbers and zucchini.
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The rainy weather, while great for my garden (with the possible exception of my tomatoes), has got me feeling a bit of cabin fever this weekend. This is only my third season growing vegetables in my own home garden, and I am still getting over the steep learning curve involved,Â so while I’m stuck inside I thought I’d share some resources that I have found very useful as a novice veggie gardener.
- Let’s start with the University of Tennessee’s Institute of Agriculture, which has a vast library of free online publications which are full of info on growing fruits and vegetables, as well as tree and lawn care in TN, available here.
- UT also offers other helpful services such as the Distance Diagnostics program and the Soil Plant and Pest Center. More information on these and other programs can be found here.
- One of my favorite new places to find info on home farming is the Ask Farmer Jason column over at Local Table Magazine, an online “Guide to Food and Farming in Middle Tennessee”. Farmer Jason is the alter ego of Jason and the Scorchers frontman Jason Ringenberg, who practices sustainable gardening on his home farm west of Nashville.
- The Metro Nashville Public Works Department offers information on composting on their website, and even sells home composting equipment at the convenience center located at 1019 Omohundro Place in Nashville.
Who else out there is trying to grow their own food at home? Feel free to share any links you’ve found useful!
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“The farmland in and around Cheyyur taluk, under Chengalpet district, has about 10,000 pieces of fruit, about 390 tonnes, all piled up with no takers due to the lockdown” says farmer Alladi Mahadevan, “All our farmers are incurring heavy losses.” Mahadevan, who has a 36-acre organic farm at Kalpakkam, near Chennai, is trying to help these farmers find customers by using social media.
“I am reaching out to huge apartment complexes in and around East Coast Road and Old Mahabalipuram Road, and using my transport take these watermelons to the residents, with police permission,” he says. So far, the response has been an enthusiastic one. “Such a support system is the need of the hour, or else these highly perishable commodities will go waste,” he adds.
Mahadevan explains how many farmers cultivate one or two acres of land around his farm, and how villagers in Pattambedu, Pavunjur, Koovathur and Malaarajakuppam and other regions which come under the taluk are the worst hit due the lockdown. These farmers usually get bulk orders from restaurant and fruit juice stall owners, as well as wholesale vegetable markets, “but with this sudden crash of logistics, they are left with no option but to sell to big players, who are using the situation to procure produce at a very low price,” says Mahadevan, adding that the farmers are being offered ₹2 to ₹3 per kilogram, for watermelons that are later sold at ₹18 per kilogram.
“Be it a large scale or small scale farmer, the cost involved in cultivating watermelon is ₹35,000 to ₹40,000 per acre,” says KR Jayaprakash Reddy, an agriculturist based at Kolathur Malacherry village. He adds, “We can harvest approximately 15 tonnes of watermelons per acre, and I have already harvested 16 acres. I still have another 20 acres ready to be harvested in about 10 days.” He adds that he normally sells his entire harvest to wholesalers from Kerala and Karnataka, who bring their trucks to collect the harvest. “Local buyers are ruthlessly quoting a price of ₹2,000 per tonne, while the usual price is ₹10,000. But as I did not want my produce to perish, I sold it for the price they asked,” Prakash says.
“If it was guava or mango, we could have pulped it and stored it, but watermelon is not a pulpy fruit and has a life of just 10 days,” states Prakash. “This is a lesson we farmers have learnt. Usually it is groundnuts that we should be harvesting around this time, but as it is labour intensive, we shifted to watermelon, which is a 60 to 70-day cash crop. But with groundnuts, I would not have incurred such a huge loss, as I can sun dry and preserve them for many months, then sell when I get the right price.”


To say that I am not a gardener is an understatement, but I have always had a desire to be. I have planned out several gardens on paper, deciding what I would grow, and picturing bountiful harvests that filled my kitchen to the brim. I even purchased a some canning tools and a book full of everything I would ever want to know about preserving fruits and vegetables. I did all of this for years without ever actually getting in the dirt.
Well, this year, I decided it was time…time to stop dreaming and to start hoeing. So David and I (mostly David because after all he has the manpower AND the ability to read seed packages and get spacing perfect…plus I can’t handle being micromanaged through a project) tilled up a few small patches of land and planted some seeds. And to our amazement, the seeds sprouted. We daily began to water them and make sure they had sufficient sunlight…and one day I looked out over the garden and asked David something like “How many seeds did we plant?” Everywhere we looked in our garden patches, there were things growing. We weren’t sure which ones we had planted and which ones were just growing on their own, but we were sure that not everything was going to be an asset to our harvest.
After a week or two of watching our garden become a weed factory, I decided it was time to do something about it. I got on my hands and knees and crawled through the dirt pulling up anything that was outside of our neatly (okay, perfectly…because after all they were done by David) planted rows. Not only did this process take HOURS of slow, methodical work, but I was absolutely ASTOUNDED at the ratio of weeds that had grown as opposed to healthy vegetables and fruits. I also realized that many of the weeds grew themselves close enough to my future harvest to enwrap themselves in the roots. Believe me when I say, the weed invasion would have eventually killed anything and everything we had planted.
And weeds weren’t even the only danger to our small gardens. There are also insects that want to come in and feast before we have the chance and diseases that can kill our plants before they even get a chance to produce fruit. Planting a garden is a fight. It takes more work than just scattering a few seeds and saying a prayer that they will grow. It takes a daily awareness of what is going on outside, daily attention to the needs of what is growing, and daily examination to make sure the weeds, the insects, and the diseases are kept at bay.
After even just a few weeks of being a gardener, I am amazed at how God created this earth to be a purposeful lesson to us about Him and about our lives lived out for Him. It’s why Jesus OFTEN told parables involving sowing and reaping…planting and harvesting. The people living in that day LIVED off the land that God had provided. They didn’t have grocery stores or processing plants. They worked their land…and as they worked it, they learned about Him and they learned about themselves.
We ARE the garden. When we become a Christian and enter into a commitment with Christ, we become part of His Garden. Sometimes just the preparation required to begin to plant seeds is challenging and painful. Sometimes our ground is really, really HARD and the tilling takes a while and new soil sometimes has to be added. Sometimes we have some major deficiencies in our soil and Christ (our Gardener) must add nutrients to our soil before He can begin to plant things in our lives. Sometimes we are very tempted to give up before the planting ever begins…and many do because the preparation is more than they are willing to go through. Others simply stay in the same preparation their whole lives, never receiving seed because they aren’t willing to cooperate with the Gardener or to walk through the pain of being tilled up and hoed until they are ready for use. Just don’t let anyone tell you that this Christianity thing is an easy, sloppy life where you do your thing and Christ does His… where you’re not really enemies anymore, but not really friends either…where you can jump up on the fence and decide every day which side you want to be on. You ARE His garden.
I would think that once the preparation is complete and we are ready for seeds that the hard work is over…that it is time for the fun stuff… watching fruit grow and harvesting and eating…but truly, it has just begun. When we receive the seed of the Word in our hearts, we have received a bigger responsibility than we have ever had. When we step out into the world of faith, we better be ready to watch, to water with prayer, to spend our days in the Son…and to pick weeds. See, Christian lives left to chance will just become weed filled patches of uselessness in the Kingdom that can sometimes even take over other part of the fruitful Garden. As soon as planted seeds begin to grow in our hearts, so do the weeds…and the weeds totally intend to take over and to choke out any fruit. If you haven’t guessed, weeds have a direct correlation to sin. Sin in the heart of a Christian may start out as something totally unthreatening. I mean, sin…just like weeds…sometimes looks to contribute to the “green” in our lives. Sometimes it is really hard to tell the weeds apart from the true seed… they are green, they look healthy, they seem to thrive even better than the fruit…insects and diseases rarely attack them. Yes, sin is MUCH easier to grow in your garden…it grows twice as fast and 100 times easier than fruit…and it soon will overtake, if we don’t do the hard work of ridding ourselves of it.
I don’t want to talk here about big, outward sins that are obvious to the world. Let’s talk about things like bitterness, wrath, evil speaking, gossip, self centeredness, selfishness, self righteousness, hate, unkindness…all of these weeds creep in and grow in the heart. They are stealth, like a ninja. They come in softly and slowly, but before you know it, they are killing your fruit. Before you know it, ALL that hard work that you had gone through to be prepared, all that planting that Christ had done in your heart, all those steps of faith that you had taken…are being overrun by sin. It is rendering you useless.
The weeds cannot stay if we ever hope to see a harvest. In our world today, we have kinda pushed the harvest to unimportant…I mean, after all, we have grocery stores, junk food, and processing plants. We have prosperity on a silver platter… as long as we make it to heaven, who really cares if we have any crowns to lay at the feet of Jesus. We are comfortable in our seedless gardens or with our weeds overtaking whatever we are growing. Hard work is a thing of the past…didn’t you hear, we are trying to make our lives EASIER, Jesus?
Very few people in this world today will actually make it to Jesus’ feet with a harvest. When I say that, I mean we would probably be shocked it all the fluff of this world was gone and we could see what each of us are really standing on. The only reason that America has more “Christians” than any other nation is because it is so EASY to be a Christian here. You bring a Communist government to America…one that requires that you renounce Christ or pay a price…and we would see how many of us are truly harvesting fruit…how many of us are all in. Who knows that it is not far off?
So my point and my cry to myself and to all of my friends is PAY ATTENTION… Daily examine your life…DAILY… Daily water it with prayer and feed it with the Word… Daily live in the SON. Daily pull the weeds (and don’t you know that they try to grow back faster if you don’t get them from the root). Do NOT give up! Do NOT get weary! Get around people who will encourage you in what God has called you to. BE the LIGHT. He who has ears to hear let him hear what the Spirit is saying.


Original Research Article I Volume 1 I Issue 4 I 2013
RESPONSE OF PIGEONPEA GENOTYPES AGAINST PIGEONPEA LEAF WEBBER GRAPHOLITA CRITICA (MEYR.) (LEPIDOPTERA: TORTRICIDAE)
Bharath Kumar N and Suhas Yelshetty
Biolife; 2013, 1(4), pp 242-245
Fifty three pigeon pea genotypes were screened against leaf webbber, G. critica of which 11 genotypes were from Multilocation trial Medium duration (MLT-MD), 18 genotypes from All India Crop Improvement Project (AICRP) trials and 24 genotypes from International Crops Research Institute for Semi-arid Tropics (ICRISAT) trials. Under MLT-MD trials the variety Asha and TS 3R C4 (2.67 webs/ 5 plants) recorded the lowest number of webs. In AICRP trials the lowest number of webs per five plants was observed in RVSA 81 (1.33 webs/ 5 plants), Rajeev lochan, P-703 (2.00 webs/ 5 plants), RVSA 34, RVSA 64, WRG 157 and WRG 98 (2.33 webs/ 5 plants).
Grapholita critica, Screening, Pigeonpea.
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2. Bant, S. K. and Harpreet, K. C., 2006, Evaluation of Pigeonpea genotypes for resistance to pod borer complex. Indian J. Crop Sci., 1(1-2): 194-196.
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4. Narendra, C., Singh, Y. and Singh, V. S., 1998, Pest complex and their succession on Pigeonpea variety p-33. Indian J. of Entom., 60(4): 334-338.
5. Sahoo, B. K. and Senapati, B., 2000, Relative abundance of pod borer species in different maturing Pigeonpea varieties in Coastal Belt of Orissa. Indian J. of Plant Protection, 28(2): 192-194.
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Received: 14 October 2013; Accepted: 29 November 2013;; Published: 6 December 2013
How To Cite:
N. Bharath Kumar. (2022). RESPONSE OF PIGEONPEA GENOTYPES AGAINST PIGEONPEA LEAF WEBBER GRAPHOLITA CRITICA (MEYR.) (LEPIDOPTERA: TORTRICIDAE). Biolife, 1(4), 242–245. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7193844


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As winter approaches, gardeners often remain stumped on keeping their beloved plants warm.
Cold weather can have adverse effects on plants— curtailing their growth and making them vulnerable to pests and diseases.
Proper care and warmth are thus necessary throughout the colder months.
Let us take an in-depth approach to keeping your plants warm during the bone-chilling winter months.
Effects of Cold Weather on Plants
Cold weather can cause irreparable damage to plants, especially those not adapted to freezing temperatures.
Frost can damage plant cells and cause dehydration. Sustained low temperatures can disrupt a plant’s ability to perform photosynthesis and take up nutrients from the soil.
Furthermore, winter winds can desiccate leaves, resulting in moisture loss and added stress.
Understanding Plant Cold Tolerance
Different plant species will have varying abilities to tolerate cold weather.
Cold Hardy Plants
Cold hardy plants, also known as frost-resistant or winter-tolerant plants, can withstand low temperatures without any fuss. These plants are typically native to colder areas and have adapted to prolonged periods of freezing and frost. Some of them include:
Evergreens: Trees and shrubs, such as pines, firs, and hollies.
Perennials: Flowering plants like hostas, peonies, and asters.
Annuals: These include plants such as pansies and snapdragons.
Tropical plants, on the other hand, are used to warmer climates. These plants do not tolerate frost or freezing conditions well and will require additional care during winter months. Common tropical plants include:
Palms: Known for their iconic appearance, palms are often sensitive to cold and may require protection or indoor shifting in colder areas.
Orchids: Most orchids are native to tropical regions and require extra care in cooler climates.
Bromeliads: They need to be brought indoors or protected from cold weather.
Summer vegetables such as tomatoes, basil, squash, peppers, and eggplant will not survive lower temperatures or frost conditions.
Kale, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, spinach, parsnips, carrots, mache, and claytonia, on the other hand, are semi-hardy and can still survive cold weather to a certain extent.
What temperature is too cold for plants?
Temperatures below 32 degrees Fahrenheit are most likely to cause damage to plants, depending on the duration of exposure.
Winter Care Basics
Insulation is one of the most basic and no-nonsense ways of protecting plants from freezing weather. You can insulate your plants through mulching, wrapping, or using plant covers.
The next important factor is selecting the right location for your plants. When planting outdoors, choose an area that offers natural protection from wind and frost, such as the vicinity of fences, walls, or large rocks.
For indoor plants, ensure they are placed in well-lit, wind-free areas that maintain a consistent temperature throughout the winter months
Keeping Outdoor Plants Warm
Outdoor plants are highly vulnerable to freezing weather. Keeping them warm is particularly challenging and may require several steps, depending on the severity of the winter.
Mulching: Applying a layer of suitable mulch material (leaves, straw, or wood chips) around the plant’s base helps to insulate the roots and moderate soil temperature.
Pruning: Prune deciduous trees and shrubs in late fall, before the onset of winter, to encourage healthy growth and prevent breakage caused by heavy snow or ice accumulation.
Wrapping: Protect vulnerable shrubs and trees with burlap, tree wraps, or frost cloths to reduce the impact of chilling temperatures and cold winds. Some other DIY wrapping materials include:
- Aluminum Foil– Wrapping your plants or pots with aluminum foil can help them build and sustain heat from sunlight.
- Bubble Wrap– Bubble wrap provides excellent insulation to your plants during cold winds or sub-zero temperatures.
- Plastic Sheets – Use plastic sheets or old clothes to cover potted shrubs and herbs during adverse weather forecasts or snow storms. Secure them using pegs.
Insulating containers: For plants kept in pots or containers, add foam insulation around the pot or place it in a larger foam-stuffed container to keep the roots warm.
Stones: Dark stones can store and release heat slowly over extended periods. Place several of them in and around the plant pots and use a heat lamp in tandem to keep the ambiance warm for long.
Heated Mats: Heated mats are particularly helpful in aiding germination during freezing temperatures. They typically increase the ambient temperature by 10-20°F. You can place several plant pots on top of them at once.
Infrared Heaters: Infrared Heaters can help increase the air temperature around your plants. However, one significant disadvantage with them is they lower humidity. For large outdoor areas, they could also prove to be ineffective.
Heated Greenhouse: Nothing can be a better home for your frost-sensitive outdoor plants than a heated greenhouse. Beware of the added electricity costs, though.
Keeping Indoor Plants Warm
You may think keeping indoor plants warm isn’t much of a challenge. Think again! Temperatures inside can still vary from being sustainable to being devastating for your plants.
Keep The Temperature Constant
Continuously varying temperatures can induce stress in sensitive plants. Ensure you keep your thermostat set to a particular reasonable temperature that is fit for your indoor plants.
Keep The Plants Off Your Window Sills
Keep your plants at a fair distance from your window sills. No plant part should touch the glass. This protects them from cold winds and the icy touch of the glass.
Use Your Refrigerator
If you have noticed, the top and back of your refrigerator are particularly warm. You can use this to your advantage and strategically place the plants around your refrigerator.
Use Grow Lights
LED and fluorescent grow lights can not only protect your indoor plants from the harsh cold but also induce growth off-season. Ideally, cluster and keep your plants in a separate room for this to work well.
Things To Avoid
You may be enticed to place your plants near your fireplace or radiator, thinking they will benefit from the heat. You will kill them off this way.
The heat radiated from these sources is unbearable and will scorch your plants quickly.
Keeping your plants warm during the long winter months can be a daunting task. Any negligence can spell doom for your valuable plants, especially if they are cold-sensitive.
However, by following the thorough guide above, you and your beloved plants can sail through the winter period with ease. Happy Winter Gardening!