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Rabbit Wastes and Its Potential to Boost Agricultural Productivity: A Synoptic Review in Sweet Potato Farming
Abstract
In recent years, the precarious global economy, rising food, fuel, and fertilizer prices, the deteriorating environment and health risks posed by humans have dramatically redirected lines of agricultural research. This increasing concern of consumers has driven the demand for food that is produced with sustainable approaches. The need to implement these sustainable practices such as the application of rabbit waste is a drive to climate-smart agriculture. Sweet potato cultivation with rabbit waste as its fertilizer and pesticide will enhance crop yield as well as improve the health and fertility of the soil. Rabbit waste also enhances crop resistance by repelling pests such as aphids, fall armyworms, etc., and thus reduces costs on plant protection products, due to the high level of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium contained in them.