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Flour Power: The Strength and Sustainability of Sorghum

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Sustainable, exceptional ingredients are the cornerstone of great food. And healthy, quality soil is the key to unlocking the finest ingredients. As a born and raised Nebraskan, I grew up understanding the impact that agriculture has on our state—and our stomachs. I started understanding the crucial impact of regenerative agriculture practices on the food I serve to […]

Diving into the Deep End of Regenerative Agriculture

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Embarking on the journey of regenerative agriculture is akin to slipping into a swimming pool. Initially, farmers and corporations alike wade into the shallow end, implementing relatively simple and inexpensive techniques such as cover cropping and minimal tillage to optimize for soil health and carbon sequestration. As we venture further into the pool, farmers may […]

Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute: Sowing Seeds of Sustainability

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Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute (FTPI) is a Native-American women-run organization dedicated to teaching sustainable indigenous ways of living in Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico. The Institute provides resources that support the Pueblo people through knowledge preservation and education. Roxanne Swentzell created FTPI in 1987. Swentzell tells Food Tank that before creating FTPI, she learned about […]

New Report Notes the Global Struggle Over Farmland and Food Sovereignty

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The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) recently released its report entitled Land Squeeze. It finds that land ownership is being consolidated in the hands of a few powerful actors, squeezing out smaller farmers, pastoralists, Indigenous Peoples, and others who rely on traditional farmland. Since 2000, land around twice the size of Germany has […]

කෘෂිකාර්මික තීරණ

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ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ දේශගුණික වෙනස්වීමේ බලපෑම් සහ හැඩගැසීමේ ප්‍රතිපත්තිවලට අදාළ පර්යේෂණ පැවැත්වීම සඳහා ජාතික ගොඩනැගිලි පර්යේෂණ සංවිධානය විසින් දේශගුණික පර්යේෂණ ඒකකයක් (CRU) ආරම්භ කර ඇත. දේශගුණික විපර්යාස හේතුකොටගෙන ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ කුඩා පරිමාණ ගොවීන් අවදානමට ලක් වීඇති ආකාරය පිළිබඳව කෘෂිකාර්මික තීරණ ගැනීම හා ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ තීරණ ගැනීමේ සහභාගිත්ව ප්‍රවනතා (ADAPT-SL) හි ඒකාබද්ධ පර්යේෂණ ව්‍යාපෘතියක් ඒකාබද්ධව මේ වන […]

කෘෂිකර්ම නවීකරණ වැඩසටහන ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීම

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– නවීන තාක්ෂණය හා නව දැනුම යොදා ගනිමින් කෘෂිකාර්මික ක්ෂේත්‍රය නවීකරණයට හා දැවැන්ත පරිවර්තනයකට ලක් කළ ලෝකයේ අනෙකුත් රටවල්වල ආදර්ශයන් පාදක කර ගනිමින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ කෘෂිකාර්මික ක්ෂේත්‍රය නවීකරණයට ලක් කිරීම කෙරෙහි අවධානය යොමු වී ඇත. ඒ අනුව, 2024 වර්ෂය සඳහා වන අයවැය මඟින් කෘෂිකර්ම හා ධීවර නවීකරණ මණ්ඩල ශක්තිමත් කිරීම සඳහා වෙන් කරනු ලැබ ඇති […]

King coconut – The golden nut of Sri Lanka

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King coconut (Cocos nucifera), a variety of coconut that is native to Sri Lanka. King coconut water is one of the fastest growing export commodities in Sri Lanka during the last decade. Rich nutritional profiles of sugars, vitamins, minerals and amino acids with profound therapeutic values have made king coconut water a popular functional beverage […]

Precision Agricultural Technologies for enhancing crop productivity: A way forward to Sri Lankan Agriculture

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Precision agriculture (PA) is an information-based production technology that manages spatial and temporal variability within a farming system to optimize its productivity and profitability while ensuring the sustainability of land resources. Today, several sophisticated technologies such as robotics, wireless sensor networks (WSN), aerial images, a global positioning system (GPS), global navigation satellite system (GNSS), smart […]