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The Neem Project: Creating Sustainability

The Neem Project: Creating Sustainability

Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers and Chemicals (GNFC) has been awarded the Porter Prize in the category of “Creating Shared Value”, a prestigious award from the Institute of Competitiveness in affiliation with Harvard Business School, for their Neem Project. So far, this project has directly worked with over 225,000 ...

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Neem Benefits in an Organic Garden

Neem Benefits in an Organic Garden

Neem is an extremely valuable resource for any home garden. One of the best solutions for pest management, this gift of nature naturally eliminates fungi, preventing nematodes in the soil, while protecting against literally hundreds of insects. Neem cake also works as an effective fertilizer. offering many nutrients ...

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Neem’s Role in Antibiotic Resistance

Neem’s Role in Antibiotic Resistance

One of the most urgent threats facing humanity today is antibiotic resistance. Antibiotic resistant bacteria, or superbugs, are germs that don’t respond to the drugs designed to kill them and they threaten to return humans to the time when simple infections would likely lead to a painful and torturous death. Today, ...

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The Organic Revolution in Cuba

The Organic Revolution in Cuba

Neem has played an important role in Cuba’s transition towards sustainable agriculture. Forced to turn to organic farming for self-sufficiency in the late 1990s, after losing over 1.3 million tons of synthetic fertilizer imports annually, Cuba had to rely on natural alternatives like neem for crop care and protection ...

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Neem Cake Feeding

Neem Cake Feeding

Natural additives for livestock feed such as neem cake are gaining popularity in farms worldwide, as a natural feed as well as due to problems with and ineffectiveness of antibiotics. This means that these antibiotics are given to livestock used in food production and the animals develop drug-resistant bacteria in ...

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Neem Cake – An Organic Byproduct that Nourishes the Soil

Neem Cake – An Organic Byproduct that Nourishes the Soil

Neem cake is a product of the left over neem seed kernels that remain after extracting neem oil from the seeds. It is mainly used as a fertilizer, but has properties of a pesticide, as well, because of its azadirachtin content. It can help to control nematodes and other pests found in the soil, in addition to ...

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