The crucial link between agricultural growth and the Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) set by the United Nations Development Programme is established through efficient …

Fertilizer use and genetic improvement of cereal crops contributed to increased yields and
greater food security in the last six decades. For rice, however, fertilizer use has outpaced …

Adequate crop yields to feed 7.8 billion people today, and nearly 10 billion by mid-century
(Vollset et al. 2020), depend on large amounts of nitrogen (N) input, which in turn represent …

Meeting future global staple crop demand requires continual productivity improvement.
Many performance indicators have been proposed to track and measure the increase in …

Fertilizer recommendations are key for farmers: the investment is relatively large for
smallholders and risky with unknown yield responses and variable fertilizer prices. Are …

Biocontrol is an ecological method of controlling pests such as insects, mites, weeds and
plant diseases using other organisms. 1 This practice has been used for centuries, and the …

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is considered as a staple food for more than half of the global
population, and sustaining productivity under a scarcity of resources is challenging to meet …

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) in the tropics is often produced in small landholdings, which can vary
in farming practices that influence optimal management of fertilizer. A web-based decision …

This study was designed to evaluate whether the decentralized rural kitchen waste (KW)
composting technologies used in China can be widely applied. To this end, we completed a …

The requirement of rice (Oryza sativa L.) for fertilizer can depend on crop and soil
management practices, which can vary among fields within a rice-growing area. A web …