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30/12/2025

The 4R’s of soil health 🌱 are a smart nutrient management framework that helps farmers apply fertilisers efficiently, boost crop uptake, and protect the soil.

The 4R’s stand for

23/12/2025

🐛 Fall armyworm is a destructive pest affecting 80+ crops, especially corn and causing billions in losses globally each year.

Here’s how you can monitor this pest👇

14/11/2025

5 Steps of Integrated Pest Management

25/09/2025

By Dimitra Fourkalidou | Head of Communications | reframe.food  A recent review of pests in major agricultural and horticultural crops in Finland highlights how quickly the pest landscape can change. In 2011, species such as the barnyard grass (Echinochloa crus-galli), thrips like Thrips tabaci and...

25/08/2025

A Guide to Identifying Nutrient Deficiencies in Plants

Your plant’s leaves can reveal a lot about their overall health. Changes in color, texture, or shape often indicate specific nutrient deficiencies. Here’s how to recognize common deficiencies and address them effectively.

# # # Common Deficiencies and Their Symptoms:

**Phosphorus (P)**
- Leaves turn reddish or purple. Growth is significantly stunted.

**Magnesium (Mg)**
- Older leaves turn yellow between veins, often with a marbled pattern.

**Potassium (K)**
- Leaf edges appear brown or burned. Plants lose strength.

**Nitrogen (N) 👎**
- Uniform yellowing of leaves, especially older ones, accompanied by reduced growth.

**Manganese (Mn)**
- Yellowing with dark spots between veins; mottling appears on young leaves.

**Iron (Fe)**
- New leaves turn yellow but retain green veins, typically on the upper parts of the plant.

**Zinc (Zn)**
- Small, distorted leaves with yellowing between veins.

**Boron (B)**
- Irregular leaf growth, distorted shapes, and dry or black tips.

**Calcium (Ca)**
- Young leaves show yellow or brown edges. Growth is stunted.

to Address Deficiencies:
- **Balanced Fertilization**: Choose fertilizers that provide both macro and micronutrients.
- **Soil Testing and Improvement**: Check and adjust soil pH, as improper levels can block nutrient uptake.
- **Proper Watering**: Both overwatering and underwatering can interfere with nutrient absorption.

# Key Insight:
Regular observation allows you to catch issues early. Small adjustments in care can restore plant health and growth.

24/08/2025

| There are two beneficial organisms found in the water of ricefields that plays a significant part of the ecosystem. They often serve as biological control agents by preying on insect pests that fall onto the water, such as planthoppers, leafhoppers nymphs and other small pests, making them valuable allies for farmers.

Ripple Bugs eat the newly hatched larvae of stem borers, which before entering the stem, must reach the lower leaf sheaths at the water surface. Larvae are also dispersed by the wind to several plants and during this process they fall onto the water surface. One water bug can prey on 4-7 hoppers per day.

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19/08/2025

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Welcome to this episode of the ICAR RC NEH PODCAST, where we dive into a major threat to ginger farming — Soft Rot Disease.🦠 Caused by Pythium myriotylum an...

14/08/2025

Army worm infestation in paddy. It is also known as lawn armyworm "Spodoptera mauritia". It attacks wide host range of crops. Active during tillering stage of rice. Avoid excessive use of nitrogenous fertilizers.