Essays on Crops

After potato, tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) is considered the most valuable vegetable crop grown globally. While the net land area that tomato is cultivated on has remained the same, production has starkly increased over the last decade. Currently, approximately 200 million tonnes of tomato are produced...

Water supply for cultivation has becoming major issue in terms of growingly scarce in many countries as a result of increased competition with domestic or industrial uses. This issue could also contribute bad impacts of climate change in terms of reduced rainfall in some key...

Warmth push actually is alluded to as the condition where temperatures are sufficiently serious for a specific timeframe that it prompts unsalvageable harm to plant crops which additionally prompts the practical hindrance or development and advancement related issues. Furthermore, high mercury scale tends to construct...

Agricultural industry being the largest industry in the world plays a vital role in every economy across the world. The agricultural sector is chiefly responsible for fulfilling humans’ need for energy, and to some extent, shelter. In a broader and truer perspective, it is one...

Cowpea, Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. is the major legume crop in Africa. It is the main protein supply of half of the population in sub-Saharan Africa. Nigeria is the most populous country in West Africa, and also produces the largest amount of cowpea. Its urban...

The United Nations (2017) reported that the world’s population will increase from the current 7. 6 billion to 9. 8 billion by 2050, thus food production needs to be increased by 60%. Already, about 10. 9% of the world’s population, were reported malnourished (FAO, 2018)....

Before we consider having GM nourishments it is critical to think about is preferences and detriments particularly as for its security. These sustenances are made by embeddings qualities of different species into their DNA. Despite the fact that this sort of hereditary change is utilized...

This development has been exploited extensively in crop production and has been a strong force within the evolution of plants. The genetic basis has been mentioned for nearly a century (Shull, 1908; Bruce, 1910; Jones, 1917), however very little agreement has emerged. With the appearance...

In crop production heterosis is widely exploited, its genetic and molecular basis is still not fully understood. It is supposed that heterosis results in crosses between genetically and /or epigenetically distant parents. Various models have been proposed to explain heteroses such as dominance and overdominance...

Cloning and Genetic Modification of Crops There are not many topics in today’s society that are so universally despised as much as genetic modification. The entire field of genetic tampering is seen as “dirty” and unnatural, when this could not be further from the truth....

Harvest of Fear Humans have always been subtly modifying their surroundings to better suit themselves; these actions range from the construction of dams to the domestication of plants and animals. Although these changes are generally beneficial to the humans they affect, especially in the short-term,...

I will be writing on how adversely unfavourable climatic conditions can affect the crops and farmers. Climate and agriculture work hand in hand with each other or precisely saying they are closely associated and interdependent. So, climate leaves an impound impact on agriculture, it could...