• Herbs

  About Herbs are actually all plants which are used as food ingredient, natural medicine or fragrances. They often have savory or aromatic characteristics

• Maize

  maize plant has economic value: the grain, leaves, stalk, tassel, and cob can all be used to produce a large variety of food and non-food products.

• Wheat

  flowering period is rather long (usually lasting longer than a week), because not all flowers of one single plant open at the same time.

• Banana

  Bananas grow in bunches downwards from the top of the plant. Nowadays, almost all edible, seedless (parthenocarpic) bananas derive from only two different,

• Onion

  season. Onions are popular and therefore cultivated and used for cooking all around the world. Their flesh is pungent when chopped, because it contains

• Some Tips for Maize Production in Challenging Times

  March 25, 2019

  Maize is a nutrient intensive and requires adequate supplies of all nutrients for all growth stages. Fertile, well drained, well aerated and good textured [...] patterns notwithstanding, it is important for maize farmers to pay attention to all the good standard practices needed for optimum production. Firstly, the farmer [...] prepared for sowing. The correct tillage method ensures ample availability of all plant nutrients, water retention and reduced incidences of pests and diseases

• Grapes

  of the Vitis vinifera are the basis of wine production around the world. All the usual wine varieties are made from (different) types of Vitis vinifera

• Persea mite

  favourable. The pest develops through egg, larval, nymphal and adult stages, with all life stages mainly occurring on the underside of avocado leaves within protective

• Leek

  scientific names were used to identify various species of leek, but now they are all classified as cultivars of Allium ampeloprasum . The part of the plant that

• Faba bean

  bean, English bean, horse bean, Windsor bean, pigeon bean and tick bean are all different names for the Vicia faba , a flowering plant and species belonging