Sweet chili is the sixth most important vegetable in Puerto Rico. It is used to make “sofrito”, an important ingredient in Puerto Rican cuisine. The production of this vegetable depends on the planting of cultivars adapted ...

Coffee agroforestry systems have been promoted because they have smaller environmental impact than sun grown coffee. The majority of shade grown coffee systems use leguminous trees capable of fixing N2 from the atmosphere, ...

Sunn hemp (Crotalaria juncea) is a legume cover crop that produces large amounts of biomass which, combined with its relatively high nitrogen (N) content and N-fixing capacity, can potentially offset N fertilizer needs by ...

Two experiments were conducted to determine if the chemical composition (CC), in vivo voluntary intake (VI) and digestibility in vivo and in situ degradability of mature Bluestem grass hay (BGH) (Dichanthium annulatum), ...

Corn (Zea mays L) is an ideal crop for silage due to its high levels of fermentable carbohydrates, but its major limitation for use in human and animal feeding is its low crude protein concentration (CP). An alternative ...

Sunn hemp (Crotalaria juncea L.) is a multipurpose legume of fast growth and high N2 fixation ability, thus justifying its use on degraded soils in the tropic to improve their fertility. However, there is limited information ...

Unsuitable agricultural practices have exacerbated worldwide soil degradation, thus limiting food production. There is a need to develop and better understand the effect of sustainable production practices that have the ...

A field study was conducted to assess the ability of the Nutrient Tracking Tool (NTT) model to estimate N losses in a plantain (Musa spp. v. "maricongo") farm in the southern semi-arid coast of Puerto Rico. I evaluated ...

Degradation and misuse of agricultural land has made it necessary to identify solutions to address this serious problem. Cover crops have long been used in the tropics to increase soil and water conservation, especially ...

Zucchini yellow mosaic virus (ZYMV) es una enfermedad viral altamente destructiva que afecta las cucurbitáceas causando grandes pérdidas económicas en la producción agrícola. En Cucurbita moschata Duchesne, „Nigerian Local‟ ...