Inter-cropping Can Trigger Apical Dominance
Inter-cropping and heavier plant population can trigger cut-throat competition among of crop plants with once in vantage position out doing others.
Wrong Topdressing and Herbicides Application
Compound nitrogenous fertilizers can cause scorching if they come in direct contact with the leaves if dissolved in water and sprayed on crop plants.
How I Out-yields Neighbor
Only healthy maize seeds, usually dressed with an organic-mercurial chemical should be used for sowing. This chemical protects the seeds from attack by seedlings pests and diseases.
Stalk-borers and Fall Army-warm: My Pesticide of Choice
Stomach poisons pesticides are relatively selective in the sense that they will only kill those organisms which actually consume them. Thus they are less hazardous to possibly beneficial predators and parasites.
I Have to Do Crop Sanitation
Virus infection interferes with vital life processes of the plant such as photosynthesis, respiration, transpiration,and nitrogen utilization.