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My Aloe Vera Is Brownish. Help!!!!

  My Aloe Vera Is Brownish. Help!!!! Aloe Vera is a succulent plant species of the genus aloe. An evergreen perennial, it originates from the Arabian Peninsula, but grows wild in tropical, semi-tropical and arid climates around the world. It is cultivated for agricultural and medicinal uses. The species is also used for decorative purposes and grows successfully indoors as a potted plant.  Description  Aloe Vera is a stem less or very short stemmed plant. The leaves are thick and fleshy, green to grey-green, with some varieties showing white flecks on their upper and lower stem surfaces. The leaves are serrated.  Aloe Vera grow well when edaphic conditions are favourable; however the reverse is the case when such conditions are unfavourable and this results in colour changes in Aloe Vera (turns brownish).  Other factors that causes discolouration to the leaves of Aloe Vera are overwatering, under watering, sun burn, diseases, too much fertilizer, plant damage an...

MAGGOT PRODUCTION

  MAGGOT PRODUCTION  With the rise in prices of commercial fish feed, alternative fish feed sources are sorted, one of such is maggot which serves as live feed to cultured fish, aside being an alternative to feed fish it is use to feed various poultry like chicken, turkey and duck, maggot also serves as an excellent replacement for fishmeal in feed production, it is a potential solution to waste management on the farm because the waste is the raw material to produce maggots, maggot also provide fertilizer for crop production. Maggot is easy to produce and is affordable even by local farmers. Maggot contains the following nutrient: Protein, Lysine, Calcium, Potassium, Phosphorus, Magnesium, Copper, Zinc, Fatty Acid, Amino Acids and Iron. HOW TO START PRODUCING MAGGOT:The “Housefly maggots” are cultured on various organic wastes such as: poultry manure, pig manure, using developed culture units.  SELECT LOCATION: The location should depend on the available land or space and...

EUTROPHICATION

Definition of Eutrophication. Eutrophication is a syndrome of ecosystem responses to human activities that fertilize water bodies with nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P), often leading to changes in animal and plant populations and degradation of water and habitat quality. Nitrogen and phosphorus are essential components of structural proteins, enzymes, cell membranes, nucleic acids, and molecules that capture and utilize light and chemical energy to support life. The biologically available forms of N and P are present at low concentrations in pristine lakes, rivers, estuaries, and in vast regions of the upper ocean. Pristine aquatic ecosystems function in approximate steady state in which primary production of new plant biomass is sustained by N and P released as byproducts of microbial and animal metabolism. This balanced state is disrupted by human activities that artificially enrich water bodies with N and P, resulting in unnaturally high rates of plant production and ...