Bananas: Pest control and harvesting
Want a good crop of healthy bananas? Follow these simple guidelines.
Advice for growing bananas
Farming bananas can be profitable, if production is planned and carried out carefully.
Cabbages: a step-by-step beginner’s guide
Producing this crop is relatively easy, provided you follow a few simple steps, says Bill Kerr.
Selling a papaya crop
Papayas need to be handled with considerable care throughout the harvesting and packing processes.
Growing papayas – Part 4
Using mulch and dealing with weeds, pests and diseases in a papaya orchard.
Growing papayas – Part 3
Escalating land prices and production costs increase the pressure to enhance yield.
Growing papayas – Part 2
A papaya orchard’s four-year lifespan makes the cost of planting material an extremely important economic factor.
Growing papayas – Part 1
Although papayas are to some extent drought-resistant, yield will be low if they do not receive sufficient water.
Sunflower basics – Part 3
Compared with a grain crop, sunflower utilises soil nutrients exceptionally well. Here is an overview of the crop’s fertiliser requirements.
Sunflower basics – Part 2
Limit moisture stress to enhance production stability.
Sunflower: learning the basics – Part 1
A sunflower crop performs well in dry conditions, but will struggle in sandy soils.
Nitrogen in fertiliser: why it is important
Nitrogen is found in the chlorophyll of plants and is responsible for good vegetative growth.
