Azolla fertilizer at Wangari Kuria's farm can be used as a protein nutrient in farm animals such as chicken and cattle and also can be used in crop farming. [David Gichuru, Standard] The soaring ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. With each fern no wider than an inch, mosquito ferns turned ...

Scientists have been campaigning to turn the fast-growing Azolla into a food of the future. Others envision it becoming both a sustainable biofuel and a fertilizer that captures carbon. What is Azolla ...

Fowls feed on Azolla ferns grown in a greenhouse at the farm of Palestinian farmer Ibrahim Al-Zeraei, in Dir Al Balah city, central Gaza Strip, Oct. 13, 2021. Due to high price of animal feed in the ...

The aquatic term, 'azolla' together with the blue-green algae (anabaena azollae) provides a symbiotic association that can fix agronomically significant amounts of nitrogen (N). The usefulness of ...

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Al-Mafraq, Jordan – Inside a greenhouse in al-Makeefta village in northern Jordan, Iman al-Athemat stood holding a spaghetti strainer she uses to harvest Azolla growing on the surface of pools. The ...

HYDERABAD: With farmers in Andhra Pradesh accepting Azolla as an alternative cattle feed and reaping its benefits in the wake of substantial decline in the availability of fodder, the state government ...

Azolla is a floating aquatic fern with a very fast growth. That’s important for multiple reasons, the first being that the fern shows “great promise as a biofuel,” says Rothfel. While it’s been used ...

Who would have thought that venture capital just needed a little help from its friends in philanthropy to get its mojo back. For much of the past decade, the lion’s share of venture funding has gone ...

Fowls feed on Azolla ferns grown in a greenhouse at the farm of Palestinian farmer Ibrahim Al-Zeraei, in Dir Al Balah city, central Gaza Strip, Oct. 13, 2021. Due to high price of animal feed in the ...