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Stanford Engineers Design Clean Fertilizer that Mimics Lightning

Key words of the passage: fertilizer; lightning; production; systemStanford engineering professors and students developed a clean fertilizer system by mimicking the method by which plants are naturally fertilized — lightning. The fertilizer system, developed by the Stanford Plasma Physics Lab, is an environmentally-safe and affordable alternative to conventional fertilizers, which can reduce fer...

09-30

Recent Chinese Urea Price and Supply

Key words of the passage: urea; fertilizer; price; marketLast week(9.20-9.26), urea of China fell first and then rose, but after entering the weekend, the rise of urea in many places slowed down, only part of the region saw a slight rise of 10-20 yuan (ton price, the same below). As of Friday, the factory quotation of urea in Shandong was 2500-2580 yuan, and the receiving price of compound fertili...

09-29

Kenya announces new subsidized fertilizer prices

Key words of the passage: fertilizer; price; subsidize; farmer; governmentThe government of Kenya has announced new subsidized fertilizer prices after the government availed a Sh3.5billion fertilizer subsidy.The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, and Co-operatives made the announcement and said the move follows a directive by President William Ruto for the ministry to avail 1.4million ...

09-29

Key Players in Controlled Release Fertilizer Market across the Globe

Key words of the passage: released fertilizer; market; companyControlled-release fertilizer (CRF) is a granulated fertilizer that releases nutrients gradually into the soil (i.e., with a controlled release period). The slowness of the release is determined by the low solubility of the chemical compounds in the soil moisture. The Global Controlled (Coated) Release Fertilizer ...

09-22

High level scenario for cumulative emissions reductions

Darker bars show the core scenario, with the lighter shading showing some of the uncertainty around this result. Totals may not sum due to rounding and the way the sub-scenarios are aggregated. Key words of the passage: emission; scenario; nitrogen; cropThe report presents a top–down scenario for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The aim of the scenario is to illustrate t...

09-21

Increased Use of Mineral Fertilizer and Developments in the Wider Food System Have Fed the World over the Past Century but Have Led to Significant Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Mineral fertilizer has played a critical role in improving food security over the past century, boosting crop yields and agricultural productivity. At the same time, the food system “from farm to fork” is responsible for net 17 Gt CO2e/year, 31% of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. Limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5°Cd and achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable ...

09-20

Microalgae extracellular metabolites can be used as new biological fertilizers

Key words of the passage: microalgae; metabolites; biological; fertilizerRecently, Beijing Protoga Biotech and Crop Nutrition Team of Syngenta published scientific research results entitled Extracellular Metabolites of Heterotrophic Auxenochlorella protothecoides: A New Source of Bio-Stimulants for Higher Plants in the journal Marine Drugs , expandin...

09-19

Peat moss is an emerging option in the global supply chain of substrate raw materials

Key words of the passage: peat; moss; substrate; supply; chainDemand for substrates and peat raw materials continues to rise as the world's large-scale farming surges. The Russian-Ukrainian conflict has increased the cost of peat production in the three Baltic countries, further deteriorating the global peat supply and demand relationship. For the Chinese market, the peat supply chain crisis w...

09-16

Scientists are unsure about how ‘Nano Urea’ benefits crops

Key words of the passage: Nano urea; fertilizer; agriculture; farmer‘Nano Urea’, a fertilizer patented and sold by the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO), has been approved by the government for commercial use because of its potential to substantially reduce the import bill, but several experts have questioned the science underlying its efficacy. Prime...

09-15

Uzbekistan benefits from the arrival of Chinese agricultural technologies

Key words of the passage: agriculture; cotton; yield; technologyThe arrival of Chinese experts and agricultural technologies have brought hopes of higher yields, lower costs and increased income for thousands of cotton farmers in Uzbekistan. Since 2018, the Institute of Cotton Research affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences has piloted a cotton producti...

09-14

World Bank: Agriculture, Cereal Export Prices Are Stabilizing

Key words of the passage: agriculture; price; stable; foodA recent World Bank report argues that global agricultural exports are giving promising signals despite the continued and looming high inflation-driven global crisis. While price inflation in Morocco continues to break records, a recent report from the World Bank argues that agricultural and cereal export prices have ...

09-13

Chinese people holding the rice bowl in their own hands

Key words of the passage: agriculture; farmer; grain; food; farmlandThe global food crisis triggered mainly by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict should remind us that the 1.4 billion Chinese people have no other choice but to hold the rice bowl themselves to safeguard food security. To ensure enough food for the Chinese people has always been a challenge for the country...

09-08

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