Vegetables
Indian vegetable farmers deal with difficulties in choosing the right seeds for crops like tomatoes, cole crops, hot peppers, cucumbers, and okra. Protecting vegetables against weeds, diseases, and insect pests is critical due to the significant crop losses associated with them. Some of the major diseases in vegetables include damping off, late blight, early blight, […]
Fruits
Fruit growers in India face unique challenges. Troublemakers like spider mites, fruit flies, aphids, and weeds compete for nutrients, water, and light, affecting the yield and quality of fruit crops. Additionally, diseases such as downy mildew, powdery mildew, scab, anthracnose, and bacterial leaf spot pose additional risks. These hurdles necessitate effective solutions for fruitful cultivation. Bayer, […]
Plantation
Plantations are farms primarily used to cultivate cash crops for commercial purposes. Unlike other kinds of farming, plantations usually comprise single crops. Since such farms are run to reap profits through commercial sales, farmers require large amounts of land, modern farming tools, and general skills. While various kinds of crops are cash crops, the crop chosen for plantation […]
Millets and Pulses
There are significant challenges that farmers growing pearl millet and pulses encounter, like low yielding varieties and limited technological progress. However, modern science is always progressing to look for solutions that prove advantageous to farmers. From seeding to harvesting, Bayer partners with Indian farmers that grow millet and pulses, to provide innovative products and solutions, […]
Field Crops
Field crops are crops grown on a large scale and annually. Farmers cultivate field crops for mass consumption and use large swathes of lands demarcated for the same. Several field crops are not only integral to the common people but are also large contributors to the economy. Keeping that in mind, Bayer has innovated solutions that help farmers grow field crops to […]
Rice
Throughout the crop lifecycle, Indian rice farmers face many challenges, such as poor-quality seeds that translate into low yields or seeds that can’t withstand environmental stresses; insects and diseases that destroy or cause significant damage to rice crops. From seed to harvest, Bayer partners with the Indian paddy farmer to provide breakthrough products and solutions: […]
Corn
After rice and wheat, corn is the third most important field crop and contributes to around 9% of India’s national food supply. However, corn farmers have to bear significant expense to cultivate the crop and deal with challenges like low-quality seeds that result in poor yields, seeds that are unable to flourish in the Indian […]
