Whether you're a home gardener or an industrial farmer, you might be familiar with mulching films—plastic sheets laid over the soil to protect seedlings and promote crop growth. But like many other ...

To mulch is to cover the soil with two objectives in mind: increasing the moisture retention of your soil and keeping the weeds at a minimum. As far as those two objectives go, no mulch works better ...

Using plastic sheets for weed control, even under current best management practices, pollutes soil with macro- and micro-plastics and negatively affects critical soil functions, according to a study.

China has led the world in using plastic-film mulch to increase the productivity of its crops, and now it needs to lead the world in removing the plastic residue damaging its croplands, according to a ...

The use of plastic mulch (plastic covering on crop lines) is a widespread technique used in agricultural regions in order to increase the profitability of the crops. According to the European ...

BEIJING, July 13 (Xinhua) -- The use of plastic film mulching in the past decades has increased crop yield and water use efficiency in China, according to a recent study. Researchers from the Chinese ...

With more than 30 million acres of agricultural land worldwide covered with over one million tons of plastic mulch, the recent trend toward "going green" has caused researchers to seek environmentally ...

The adoption of ‘plastic mulching’, covering the soil with plastic to prevent moisture evaporation, has dramatically increased yield for brinjal farmers in Mattu village near Udupi. ‘Mattu Gulla’, a ...

Gardeners are often concerned about environmental issues and one of the big ones these days is single-use plastic bags. Recently I mulched an area and had over 30 plastic mulch bags that seemed a ...

Use of pruning and plastic mulching technique in mango farming have brought very encouraging results in the last few years for the farmers who export their produce to Gulf countries. The RR mango farm ...