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A Brutal Crime in the Old Royal City
On June 2, 1911, the New Westminster community was shocked to learn that 45-year-old, Sarah Ann Elizabeth Jobes, was shot to death by her husband, Henry Anderson Jobes.
Gain More Customers by Listing Your Company in a Business Directory
A sales letter is a piece of direct mail designed to persuade the reader to purchase a particular product or service in the absence of a salesman. The following text is an example of a sales letter.
How to Control Potato Late Blight by Using Fungicides Correctly
Using a new tool, small-scale farmers can now know what kind of fungicide to use and when and how often to apply it.
The Critical Role Tracking COVID-19 Plays in Your Investments
Orbital Insight helps portfolio managers or responsible for commercial banks track the spread of the coronavirus. In this way, they’ll understand the impact COVID-19 has on the supply chain within their investments.
Cómo controlar el tizón tardío de la papa usando correctamente los fungicidas
Empleando una nueva herramienta, los pequeños productores ahora pueden saber qué clase de fungicida utilizar y cuándo y con qué frecuencia aplicarlo.
What History Can Reveal About Aldyen Irene Hendry
Aldyen Irene Hendry was the longest living, richest, and most influential New Westminster May Queen.
What is Water Budget | Formula for Calculation | MAWA
The water budget approach allows professionals to design a sustainable landscape based on a proper amount of water.
Save Time and Money with Technology that Makes Groundwater Visible
Groundwater is a resource that communities must manage. But they use complex methods to determine its level. A new technology that applies remote telemetry eliminates this problem.
Innovations to restore water ecosystems link small farmers to the market
Páramo Farms and Páramo Snacks have joined forces to add value to the vegetables and native potato species grown by ASOARCE. This article describes the processes, highlights the challenges, and explains why these are replicable efforts that could be used to restore degraded lands in water ecosystems.
Why Colciencias and GEF rewarded the impressive work of ASOARCE’s farmers
ASOARCE recently received a grant for its innovative method of applying scientific and technological knowledge in the recovery of the Andean forest of the Páramo de Guerrero. The grant was awarded by the Administrative Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (Colciencias) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) through its Small Grants Programme (SGP).
Everything Potato Growers Should Know About Remote Sensing
Basic concepts of this science: Defining remote sensing, How does remote sensing work?, What information does remote sensing offer?, What platforms and sensors do remote sensing use? What are the benefits of remote sensing? etc.
Using Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts to Solve Problems in Administering IT Ecosystem Services
Businesses that are moving to “as-a-Service” ecosystem of providers have no the contracting structure adequate to administer that environment. Thus, the contracts work in theory but not in practice. Smart contracts cut this problem.
Using Temperature Monitoring Devices to Improve the Cold Chain for Vaccines
Proper vaccine storage and handling have been an essential factor in preventing and eradicating many common vaccine-preventable diseases. Failure to regulate a vaccine’s temperature can reduce its potency, resulting in inadequate immune responses in patients. Temperature Monitoring Devices eliminate this problem by providing accurate information from monitoring temperature conditions.
How the Tomra Field Potato Sorter Improves your Sort
Potato sorters used in fields today are inefficient, expensive to operate, and high maintenance. Many of these machines require several people to operate them, and weather conditions must be just right for optimal sorting. Additionally, the machines fail to adequately separate foreign objects from the harvest, which reduces the yield and increases storage costs. TOMRA’s Field Potato Sorter (FPS) overcomes all of these issues.
How to Restore the Páramo of Guerrero Using Organic Farming: the Case of the Potato
Members of ASOARCE planted potatoes and vegetables and used organic practices to restore the soil. The produce has been of excellent flavor and texture, despite the adverse conditions of the páramo’s climate and altitude. This article describes how farmers control pests and diseases in potato crops without the use of chemicals and how they perform their traceability.