PAPUA New Guinea’s bold ambition to transform its agriculture industry into a K30 billion powerhouse has hit a wall.

Production of honey by a single bee is insignificant but together, all the bees in a hive produce a lot.

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Breadfruit trees are a GREAT staple crop in the tropics, except they don't really produce seed. So we have to propagate them in other ways, by air layering or through root cuttings. In this video I ...

Trees get damaged in shipping. They may have been grown in a container too long leading to tons of those deadly circling roots just inside the container. The nursery owner can’t unpot every tree ...

But the inner bark of a tree contains the tubes which carry food manufactured by the leaves down to the roots. If some of these tubes are damaged, less food reaches the roots. Slowing root growth ...

“You had a tree on your truck that went around the moon,” Sailstad said. “From this seed that went all the way around the moon, you had a part in bringing it to its final place.” The ...

The most dramatic changes in silvopasture happen in the soil. Tree roots penetrate lower layers, bringing nutrients up and making them available to forage plants, which livestock consume. This has a ...

This oak tree has a girdling root that should be trimmed and removed as soon as possible. This is a common problem, yet many ...

By hitting tree roots, the chimps produce low-frequency sounds that can travel more than a kilometre. This could allow them to stay in touch across large distances, even when they’re out of sight.