Insecticides use in field crops has grown increasingly prophylactic, which poses a potentially unnecessary risk to arthropod decomposers. These decomposers — including millipedes (Diplopoda), soil mites (Acari, mostly Oribatida), and Collembola act as alternative prey for generalist predators, facilitate crop-residue breakdown, can influence nutrient cycling. However, the abundance activity of ...

T he use of plants as crops to produce food, fiber, and other products has an amazing record of environmental safety. The greatest risk with any plant deliberately introduced into a new environment is its potential for inva-siveness beyond the planted area—to become a weed—but even here crop plants have an outstanding record of safety. Crop plants typically must be managed as " weedy " voluntee...

Whis work presents a study on the flammability of epoxy coatings containing two types of nano-scale fillers as potential flame retardants: expandable graphite (EG) and halloysite nanotubes (HNTs). Both nanocomposites are prepared by incorporation of the same amount of nanofiller into the epoxy resin for the sake of comparison. Fire retardant nanocomposite coatings are cured through a two-stage ...

Abstract The effect of particle size distribution and compaction pressure wood residues briquette was investigated. Starch used as a binder. Concerning that the have valuable content namely lignin cellulose, high possibility to be modified biofuel. In this study, (iron gelam woods) were treated by drying, milling, carbonization at 500 °C. ratio between carbonize binders 20% weight. manufactured...

This study was undertaken to compare the chemical properties and yields of pineapple leaf residue (PLR) char produced by field burning (CF) with that produced by a partial combustion of air-dried PLR at 340 °C for 3 h in a furnace (CL). Higher total C, lignin content, and yield from CL as well as the presence of aromatic compounds in the Fourier Transform Infrared spectra of the char produced f...

Farming activities practiced on many Australian soils have resulted in substantial losses of soil organic matter (SOM), nutrient loss, soil structural degradation and declines in cereal yield and quality. Field trials, consisting of a legume or fallow phase followed by three wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) crops, were established on a degraded Ferric Luvisol (Red Earth) soil in New South Wales to ...

Abstract Background Burning fast-growing trees for energy production can be an effective alternative to coal combustion. Thus, lignocellulosic material, which used obtain chemicals with a high added value, is highly abundant, easily renewed and usually inexpensive. In this work, hemicellulose extraction by acid hydrolysis of plant biomass from three different crops ( Chamaecytisus proliferus, L...

Crop residue burning in Indian Punjab emits particulate matter with detrimental impacts on health, climate and that threaten agricultural production. Though legal technological barriers to exist – alternatives considered more profitable farmers continues. We review black carbon (BC) emissions from Punjab, analyse social-ecological processes driving burning, rice wheat value-chains. Our aims are...

ABSTRACT No-till vegetable farming is a feasible alternative to reduce erosion-induced losses and increase soil nutrient availability, because cover crop residue protects the its decomposition promotes cycling, which can improve yield of subsequent crop. The present study assessed production crops agronomic performance broccoli grown on this using different nitrogen doses in no-till system. A r...