Crop Protection Methods Increase Agricultural Productivity Manifold

Pests attacks, depletion in soil fertility, using inferior quality of seeds, etc. are some of the factors which result in a huge loss to the crop and agricultural productivity. However, the point which needs to be noted unlike earthquakes and floods, these factors are within the reach of human control. Therefore, the best way to deal with such problems is to vigorously follow the various crop protection methods and techniques at continuous basis to ensure high level of agricultural productivity.

The first and foremost thing which is imperative to follow by every farmer is to protect his farms and lands from pest attacks by effectively following pest control methods. Pest control method comprises of employing pesticides, insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, at the regular intervals in order to get respite from the damaging attacks of pests, insects, unwanted weeds and plants, etc.

Seed treatment is one of the most famous methods which aid in improving the growth environment for seeds, seedling and young plants by adopting specific techniques. Infestations of seed borne diseases are successfully prevented by using seed treatment methods. In addition to this, seed treatment aids in achieving various benefits like protecting seeds from seed rot, seedling blight, season diseases and attacks of pests, increases germination, ensures uniform emergence of seedlings, etc.

Application of fertilizers, at a regular basis, is another method of crop protection and increasing crop productivity to a significant level if carries out cautiously. Every year, numerous plants are grown at a same land which results in depletion of soil essential nutrients considerably. Therefore, it becomes important to keep enriching your land with the fertilizers which act as a plant growth regulator. Fertilizers are chemical compounds which provide essential nutrients to the plants, encourages plant growth, and thus acting as plant growth regulators.

However, it is pertinent to disclose that these methods will provide lucrative results when farmers are giving proper training regarding how to apply fertilizers, pesticides and how to carry out seed treatment techniques. Gaining knowledge regarding these matters aids farmers in performing and implementing crop protection methods and techniques in the desired manner. So, if you want to gather more information about the crop protection methods, then browse the web. Through internet, you will come across numerous websites that are providing useful information regarding these matters and supplying high quality of crop protection products at reasonable price.

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Drive Traffic to Your Door With Effective Newspaper Advertising

You've worked hard saving your money to purchase that dream of owning your own business. After years squirreling away the capital necessary to start, the day arrives when you're ready to open your doors to the public.

Of course, if your business is in a highly visible location along a fairly well-travelled road with great access to your car park, the public will see you easily. This is especially true if you take advantage of that high roadside visibility by placing messages about your grand opening soon to take place. I know my interest gets peeked passing by a soon-to-open business with all the colourful signs announcing the big opening. Big beautifully decorated signs, colourful balloons, and even people waving signs or carrying hand-held billboards can grab the attention of passer-bys.

But, how do you get your message out to people who don't travel this road or what if your business location is not on the main drag? It would be a fairly unwise business decision to rely on just passing traffic as your only source for customers. Plus, as any successful business entrepreneur will tell you, successfully getting the word out about your business - your goods and or services - will be the key to your success.

There are many ways you can investigate to promote your business from the extremely expensive to merely depending on word of mouth. However, one of the best and oldest methods for any business to promote itself remains to this day through newspaper advertising.

"Why Is Newspaper Advertising Still Effective?"

Well, despite all the hyped up gloom recently about the demise of the newspaper industry, your local paper isn't going anywhere. Today, newspaper strength drawing readers and potential consumers for businesses placing advertisements still makes the medium a cost-effective marketing tool.

According to the Newspaper Association of America (NAA):

• Nearly 50 percent of adults read a newspaper every day

• Average Sunday adult readership is 54 percent

• Daily newspapers are read by 67 percent of adults Monday through Friday

• Studies show people pick up newspapers seeking local products and services

• Since newspapers use themed sections, unique demographic targeting is available

• Newspapers remain the number one source for coupon marketing

• Newspapers remain the number one source for automotive marketing

• Today, most newspapers operate accompanying websites adding greater advertising value

Now, if you're convinced newspaper advertising is something you need to explore, the first thing to do is actually pick up your local paper for a few editions. Check out the ads that catch your eye, because this aspect of an ad is something you'll want to incorporate into your own. Ask yourself "Why has this particular advert caught my eye?"

"The Headline Is The Key..."

If you have a local paper nearby, take a look at the classifieds section. What do you notice? Do they all look alike? Do any stand out? If so why do they stand out? These questions should educate you to understanding what makes an eye catching advert. Try to make your advert incorporate the things that you notice...

Request a media kit, or at least a rate card, from your local newspaper so you can get an idea about what costs are associated with what type and size ads are available. Sure there is a lot of self-education necessary to become an informed advertising consumer.

Don't fret - find out about great methods to use when advertising in newspapers on the AdSense-On-Demand training course, designed to teach you all you need to know about successfully promoting your business in a variety of media.

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Why you Absolutely Must Take Control of Your Subconscious for Permanent Weight loss

From the moment of birth your first emotional experiences establish your subconscious perceptions of the world. There is not a moment of the day or night that you are not affected by your emotions. More often than not it is your programmed emotional states, not logic that control your behavior. Therefore in order to apply the process of Burris MIND/FITNESS you must first understand how your subconscious mind works.

Your subconscious mind flawlessly records everything you have ever seen, felt, smelled, heard, or tasted. Unfortunately it is not capable of interpreting the true meaning of the information it records. It simply takes the information it accumulates, and organizes it into individual programs that determine how you will respond to recurring circumstances in your daily life. Once your subconscious mind has taken certain information and formed it into a program, it will devote its considerable power to the continuation of that program behavior or habit, regardless of the consequences.

Your subconscious programming can be useful. This is what allows you to do things automatically like drive a car, type a letter, or use a computer. If the subconscious did not store this information for you in the form of a program, you would not be able to do these things automatically. The disadvantage to this is that there are some subconscious programs that simply do not work.

At some point in your life you may have been programmed to eat poorly or to respond poorly to a certain situation or to link pleasure to things like smoking, drugs or alcohol. The dilemma later in life is how to change the behaviors that do not work for you.

The bottom line is that there are two subconscious components that activate an emotional state, which in turn determines your behavior.

1) You must talk to yourself which usually begins with a question and

2) By asking yourself a question your subconscious mind will always give you an answer, which in turn produces a correlating picture.

It is from this subconscious picture that your emotional state is determined and in turn determines your behavior. A good example of this process is when a person is overweight; they constantly ask themselves negative questions like: “Why am I so fat?” or “How did I get so fat?” or “Why can’t I lose this weight???”

By asking yourself these types of negative questions, your subconscious mind will produce negative answers such as: You are fat because you overeat or you overeat because you are stressed and for each of these negative answers the subconscious mind will produce a correlating picture of you as a fat person.

The mind now interprets these subconscious pictures, as how you should look, and devotes its tremendous power toward maintaining this body image. So you see, every time you ask yourself a question there is a correlating subconscious picture, which determines your emotional response. Through the process of Burris MIND/FITNESS you will learn how to Recognize, Access and Change these two subconscious components.

Unlike your conscious mind, your subconscious mind is always active, it never sleeps. An example of this is when you ask yourself the question: What is that person’s name? For the life of you, you cannot think of their name and then maybe an hour or two later or even the next day their picture and name pop into your mind. The reason for this is your subconscious mind was continuously working on the name, even though you had consciously given up.

If the subconscious does not already have a stored answer for a question, it will search through all of its available information until it formulates one. This is why you need to ask yourself any question you think may move you toward your weight goal because the subconscious will always find an answer.

It is estimated that your subconscious mind generates over 60 thousand thoughts per day. We refer to this thought process as talking to ourselves. The reason your subconscious mind is capable of generating over 60 thousand thoughts per day is because your inner voice continuously speaks to you at a rate of one thousand to twelve hundred words per minute. You can only speak however at about two to three hundred words per minute. This means your inner voice runs at a rate of about four times faster than you can speak and produces a correlating picture for each of these thoughts. In other words if your mind was the world, your conscious mind might take up the space of LA or New York but your subconscious mind would take up the space and activity of the rest of the world.

Regardless of weather your goal is a change in diet for weight loss, an increase in your fitness program or to take control of an eating disorder such as anorexia or bulimia. In the end the question you need to ask yourself isÂ…Am I completely happy with the mind running itself or do I need to take control of it? If your answer is I need to take control of it, then Burris MIND/FITNESS is the answer.

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What is your attitude towards your work?

What is your attitude towards your work?
The position you take just might mean the difference between fulfillment and misery!

This is the sixth article in a ten-part series, based on Craig Nathanson's trademark "Ten P" model for vocational happiness.

By Craig Nathanson
The Vocational Coach™

What is your attitude towards your work?

This is not a trivial question. On a recent trip to teach and speak
in Russia I discovered that one's culture can influence one's position or
attitude about their work. For example, in Russia, the pairing of work and joy doesn't compute. The general feeling there is that one's work is something that must be done whether one likes it or not. In North America, while there is a growing trend to choose more carefully one's work, there still are remarkable similar attitudes about work.

Mid-life is the chance to re-adjust your position about your work

Mid-life is the perfect time to change or even recreate a new attitude about your work.
It's time to discard old non-useful ideas of the past and replace them with more useful ideas.

This is not easy

I should know. Now almost 4 years removed from corporate America, I have had many days and nights wondering what am I doing. Trading a six figure income managing other people in their jobs to now spending my days typing articles like this? Trying to give people new ideas how to discover and do what they love? Spending hour after hour in my private practice discussing with clients the same fears, concerns and yet eager anticipation that I had in recreating one's work life.
This isn't a real job I would think. What am I doing while all those OTHER people commute to their real jobs.

Work and Joy do fit together

Having an attitude about your work that you must not only enjoy but love what you do is not just reserved for the privileged in our society. Sure it may be harder to get started for some but just because we all have different starting lines doesn't mean we can't join the race to an authentic work life

Are you too comfortable in your job?

Up to age 40 or so, many of us have settled into a comfortable pattern about our work. We don't necessarily love it or even like it, but it pays the bills and helps build our egos.

Mid-life is a time of attitude adjustment

You can live a more authentic life by starting to change your position about your work.
Is what you do JUST a job to retire from? Or do you want to do activities each and every day which you love and never have to stop until you die?
The only people who retire are people who don't love what they do. Are you one of them?
You can live a more authentic life but the changes reside in you. If you don't change your position and direction of your work, then who will?
I am still waiting for the first Human resource benefits package to offer ''Authentic life'' with the 401K program and two weeks vacation but I am not holding my breath!

Will this be hard work??

Changing one's position or attitude about one's work will be the hardest thing you have ever done. You will have to defeat external attitudes about work. These attitudes will come from co-workers, bosses, spouses and mother-in laws. Second you may lack the self confidence to stand up for your new attitude.

It all starts with you

Can you think of someone who you have been around who has a great attitude about their work? How can you try on a similar attitude about your work?

Our beliefs about work may have to go

Many of us have beliefs about work which just don't fit us any longer but we hold on to them like an old familiar coat. Sometimes we forget its hard life we are living and not our fathers or our mother's or our wife or husband.

What can you do now? Ten steps to get started NOW!!

Expect to find happiness in your work if you are prepared to search for it
Delete old patterns of thoughts and attitudes which are no longer useful for your work
Don't expect anyone else to change your attitude for you
Do expect lots of resistance from others
Practice daily a new attitude about your work
Discard as quickly as possible negative thoughts about your work. Instead, change your work!
Take a new position that you will no longer settle for unfullfilling and work without meaning in your life
Create an inner awareness that the second half of your life can be authentic, happier and more satisfying
Smile and laugh more in mid-age! Negativity gets defeated this way
Expect to discover and do what you love!

Practice a daily consistent attitude which is the same in the morning and at night. You'll feel calmer about yourself as a result

More fruit on your cereal

Now over forty, You may have adopted a new diet, a new exercise schedule and maybe your relationships are improving and you might even be sleeping better. What possibly can be even better then this?
Well, recreating a new attitude or position about your work will be like adding fruit on your cereal in the morning. It will put a smile on your face and a bounce to your step.
In mid-life, this might just be what we need the most!

Craig Nathanson is the author of P Is For Perfect: Your Perfect Vocational Day and a coaching expert who works with people in mid-life. Craig's systematic approach, the trademark "Ten P" model, helps people break free and move toward the work they love. Visit Craig's online community at www.thevocationalcoach.com where you can sign for a class, private coaching, or group coaching. Or, you may read other stories of mid-life change and renewal.

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Forklift Safety Tip #2 - "Do Seatbelts Have To Be Worn?"

Forklift safety Tip #2 - "Do Seatbelts Have To Be Worn?"



The simple answer is yes.



You see, most new sit down type (counter balanced) forklifts come fitted with a seat belt and it is mandatory that they are worn. This said, it's common practice at many companies for operators to overlook wearing the belts and they're very rarely used.



In fact, quite often when we go into companies to do training, the supervisors, managers, and even the operators themselves don't realise that the forklifts have seatbelts.



Do All Forklifts Have Seatbelts?



Some forklifts have seatbelts and others don't, depending on the make and model you purchase. Basically, if it came standard from the manufacturer with a seatbelt then it must be worn. If it didn't come fitted with one from new, then none is needed.



The belts are only ever a lap sash type so they don't restrict the drivers from turning their shoulders to look backwards. Their main purpose is to keep the operator in the seat in case of a role over. When a forklift tips over sideways, one of the greatest risks is that the operator can end up under the machine so the belts are there to prevent this.



Why Don't Operators Like to Wear Them?



It is obviously a major pain for operators to put the belts on and off when ever they use the forklift and this is the main reason they're not usually worn. If an operator were to jump on and off of the forklift 30 times a day then you can imagine the inconvenience the belt can cause.



That's why many small to medium sized companies choose to turn a blind eye to the seatbelts and don't enforce the wearing of them.



The risk to you however is that if one of the forklifts happens to roll over and the driver isn't wearing the belt, they won't be covered by your company's insurance. The company will also have to answer to WorkCover/WorkSafe etc (depending which state you're in) for not ensuring that belts where being worn.



Drivers themselves can also incur personal fines from WorkCover inspectors for not wearing belts.



So What's The Solution?



More and more large companies are starting to strictly enforce the wearing of seatbelts. Some have even gone as far as having the forklifts wired up in such a way that they won't start or run unless the seatbelt is on.



Lets face it, putting a seatbelt on and off isn't really going to slow your drivers up that much. I strongly recommend taking a tough stance with your staff and enforce the wearing of seatbelts.



You're going to get some whinging and complaining from certain staff members at first but take it from me, putting up with a little whining is far better than having to call someones wife or husband after a serious workplace accident.



If you have any question relating to this or any other matter, please feel free to call me on 0416 209 798 or email me nathan@directforkliftsales.com.au