Before, anyone who wanted to grow cacao at 1,200 or 1,500 meters [3,900 to 4,900 feet] altitude was considered crazy,” says Orlando Quintero Gonzales, an agronomist in Colombia’s Eje Cafetero, or the ...

Before, the seasons seemed etched into the calendar, with well-defined periods of drought and rain. Today, the climate has ...

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Drought hit coffee farmers in Brazil hard last year, drying up trees and driving global prices to record highs. As he ...

While loamy is considered suitable for most home gardens, sandy soil is perhaps the trickiest type to plant in. Not only is ...

Twenty million trees will be planted and 2,500 hectares (6,178 acres) of new woodland created in the west of England as part of a "national forest" drive, the government has announced. The Western ...

Together with the oceans, they are one of the two most important carbon sinks, due to their capacity to store carbon in the soil and in tree biomass. As such, promoting fast-growing trees could ...

This nonliving carbon is derived in particular from the excrement and decomposition of dead plants and animals, and eventually becomes food for soil organisms. While the mechanisms by which carbon ...

“The drought was very bad for the flowering for the new 2024-25 crop because the coffee trees were already weak after the drought last year. When our family farm was hit by drought again this year ...

Learn about our editorial policies Decision trees are major components of finance, philosophy, and decision analysis in university classes. Yet, many students and graduates fail to understand ...

I keep the soil moist and give them fertilizer ... The lane back to the entrance was lined with trees which were draped with devil’s ivy plants with leaves 18 inches across.