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Live fences are lines of trees or shrubs planted on farm or field boundaries that provide protection against cattle and wildlife, act as windbreaks, enrich the soil, provide bee forage, provide shade, and control dust. They are less expensive and more useful than fences made of wood, barbed wire, or stone masonry. Various species have been tested to discover their suitability for use as biofencing plants; nine thorny species have been selected and demonstrated.
The benefits of mulching? Mulch is a covering, using straw, compost, or plastic sheeting, spread on the ground around plants ...
Hydropower is one of the most promising potential sources of energy in the HKH region. The possibilities range from large-scale ...
Planting and maintenance of shelter or protection belts is another important method of soil and water management. Shelter belts are ...
Solar energy has been used for centuries for drying crops, clothes, wood, and crop residues, and heating buildings. But now ...
Taking vegetables to a third dimension seems like the stuff of sci-fi movies, but in reality there are very effective ...
Goat husbandry Goats are part of the farm household in mountain farming systems. Particularly for marginal farmers, they have ...
Solar photovoltaic technology directly converts radiation from the sun into electricity using a physical process with no moving parts. It ...
The basic principle of conservation tillage is to maintain a cover on the soil surface of residues (mulching) or vegetation ...
