cultivation

"As cardamom is the queen of spices and a cash crop lot of people have started get in to cultivation," she says.

The total area under opium poppy cultivation this year was estimated at 10,200 hectares, mostly in the north-east of the country, with Badakhshan province accounting for the largest share.

The scientists evaluated whether SAI could help stabilize conditions for grape, coffee, and cacao cultivation across major growing areas in western Europe, South America, and West Africa.

The study, supported by FAPESP, focused on sunflower meal because sunflower oil is already widely used in Europe, and sunflower cultivation is steadily increasing in Brazil.

By the eve of the Civil War, America’s prodigious cotton cultivation had grown by orders of magnitude once again, nearing two billion pounds.