THE ROLE OF SCIENCE AND TECHOLOGY TO AGRICULCURE

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The part of science and innovation in the mission for the best strategy for enhancing the yield of products, ensuring crops against ailments and vermin, making domesticated animals sound constantly, outlining the best technique for crops stockpiling and notwithstanding helping in anticipating the atmosphere favorable for agricultural practice can not be over underscored.

As we probably am aware, the utilization of agricultural gear and hardware help to making cultivating and other agricultural practice less demanding for the rancher. In the propelled nations of Northern America and Western Europe, agricultural automation is the request of the day. A speaker in American college could, notwithstanding his driving occupation possess and direct a poultry complex of around 5,000 winged animals or more. In a similar vein, two agriculturists could supply the pork required for a town of 25,000 populace. Rancher get appended to banks and get financed to extensive agricultural endeavors. The ranchers utilize specialists with agricultural and administration abilities and exposures.

For the individuals who wander into dangerous regions like poultry and piggery, endeavors are made to look for the administrations of pathologists to guarantee that the wellbeing of these creatures and feathered creatures are appropriately dealt with, legitimate protection are taken to guarantee that where sudden mortality emerge, the hazard is spread. It is through science and research that better strategies for enhancing the yield of products are guaranteed.

Before 1989, nearby agriculturists had been utilized to gather the neighborhood cassava species that were pervasive, just couple of ranchers were utilized to enhanced cassava assortments inside that year yet something sudden happened. The majority of the nearby assortments were no all the more doing admirably and along these lines the death rate was high. Nourishment turned out to be rare and the cost of a bowl of garri rose to between N3,000.00 to N4,000.00 Garri began being sold at one glass for one naira. Numerous families couldn't bear the cost of it as some supplemented with corn flour, which was less expensive.
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The main way out was that most ranchers moved to receiving the enhance yield assortment (IYV) and safe assortment. Fortunately, Onuanwo was prepared to help the whole state and past as individuals from various parts of the state and past moved to Onuanwo for tuber and stem.

Harvest assurance is exceptionally essential in agriculture. Ailment influences plants and prompts delay in metabolic exercises, hindered development, shedding of blossoms and leafy foods the genuine demise of the plant. Social and synthetic control are more often than not utilized. Socially, edit revolution is embraced, consuming stays in the wake of gathering, standard weeding of the dirt, appropriate separating of harvests utilizing of high yielding and safe assortments and honing of water system amid dry season are received.

The utilization of compound control is the consequence of research. Despite the fact that specific symptoms are related with specific synthetics, regardless it remains that a standout amongst the best methods for diminishing pathogens, fungicides are utilized to controlled contagious sicknesses. These incorporates lime, cumin copper, Bordeaux blend and so on. Bacterial illnesses are control by specific anti-toxins like cuprous axide (copper oxide), certain tidy from mercury, copper and sulfur. Since viral ailments are hard to kill certain bug sprays they are utilized to control the creepy crawly vector transmitting the viral pathogens.

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WEEKLY THEME FORMAT;
•SUNDAY– EVOLUTION AND HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE
•MONDAY – HOW TECHNOLOGY HAS HELPED IMPROVE THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
•TUESDAY – SOCIAL MEDIA VS AGRICULTURE (FRIEND OR FOE)
•WEDNESDAY – AGRICULTURAL BI-PRODUCTS
•THURSDAY – THE MOST LUCRATIVE AGRICULTURAL BUSINESS IN WEST AFRICA
•FRIDAY – HOW STEEM CAN FEED NATIONS THROUGH AGRICULTURE.

SteemChurch Farm ( @FARMS)

Another side of the puzzel to look at is that while technology might reduce the workload of farmers in the short term, over time more and more farmers will use technology to reduce their workload. Because of the way 'suply and demand' works...farmers will be able to produce more and more crops. This increased supply of crops will translate into lower wages for the farmers. After some time farmers will understand that the technology that they are using to grow bigger and better crops is a scam. Sure the crops look bigger and better but the nutritional quality has been eaten away. I am not saying that all technology is harmful to a farmer, but a good rule of thumb is to stay away from 'technology' that comes from a chemical process. People will understand that locally grown produce that is raised on a sustainable farm is a good choice!