Canola producers learn about conservation agriculture
Francisco Magallanes (center), station superintendent at CIMMYT's headquarters at El Batán, Mexico, shows a pressurized sprayer used to apply chemicals such as pesticides, herbicides, and foliar fertilizers to a group of canola producers from the Mexican state of Hidalgo. A workshop introducing the farmers to conservation agriculture (CA) was held on 01 October 2010. The CIMMYT CA team promotes canola, despite it not being a traditional Mexican crop, as a rotation crop within a greater agronomic diversification strategy. Crop rotation, along with zero tillage and residue retention, is one of the key principles of CA, minimizing build-ups of pests and diseases.
For more information, see CIMMYT's blog story at: blog.cimmyt.org/?p=5876.
Photo credit: Xochiquetzal Fonseca/CIMMYT.
Canola producers learn about conservation agriculture
Francisco Magallanes (center), station superintendent at CIMMYT's headquarters at El Batán, Mexico, shows a pressurized sprayer used to apply chemicals such as pesticides, herbicides, and foliar fertilizers to a group of canola producers from the Mexican state of Hidalgo. A workshop introducing the farmers to conservation agriculture (CA) was held on 01 October 2010. The CIMMYT CA team promotes canola, despite it not being a traditional Mexican crop, as a rotation crop within a greater agronomic diversification strategy. Crop rotation, along with zero tillage and residue retention, is one of the key principles of CA, minimizing build-ups of pests and diseases.
For more information, see CIMMYT's blog story at: blog.cimmyt.org/?p=5876.
Photo credit: Xochiquetzal Fonseca/CIMMYT.