Sentences with phrase «better crop production»

Better crop production in the U.S. would also mean lower food prices.

Consider how challenging it is today, with good crop production, to feed 7 billion people on this planet.

Not exact matches

Lumi is helping area farmers get organic - certified, which would open up a new market for their crops as well as lower the company's production costs.

Although cocoa prices scored the most impressive quarterly gain, with futures up 35 % on production issues in West Africa, soybeans were a standout as well, with futures up 9.8 % as a drought harmed crops in Argentina while years of bumper harvests in the United States were set to recede in 2018.

When you reduce waste, energy consumption, and agrochemical usage, you increase soil quality and biodiversity, thereby facilitating the production of a better crop.»

In 1985, Vietnam achieved self - sufficiency in rice and then went on to continue to increase its production due to supportive government policies, and its adoption of better crop management strategies and new high - yielding rice varieties.

By collaborating on a wide scope of research, including development of better rice varieties, strengthening of rice - based farming systems, and improvement of crop cultivation practices, Bangladesh continues to raise its level of rice production and minimize the intensity of food insecurity during major flooding and monsoons.

Traditional crop improvement seeks broadly adapted genotypes to give best average performance under a standard management regime across the entire production region, with some subsequent manipulation of management regionally in response to average local environmental conditions.

«I'm a plant scientist in Dr. Patel's lab at Big State University, with significant research experience in improving efficiency of various cropping systems under a range of environmental conditions, as well as working with parent lines development and hybrid seed production.

He said the team's future efforts will focus on better quantifying the soil and water conservation effects of cover crops for the region by identifying ideal cover crop termination dates and assessing the effects of cover crops on carbon and nitrogen balances in cotton production systems.

A new review sums up options for increasing global carbon sequestration by flora and speculates that genetically engineering crops and trees could enhance the process, trapping gigatons of the greenhouse gas as well as increasing bioenergy production

«On the one hand, more CO2 is known to be good for plants, at least in the short - term because this drives up photosynthesis and plant growth including crop growth and food production.

The Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development, Neiker - Tecnalia, has created four new potato clones which are characterised by their high antioxidant content, their good production both in size and number of tubers, as well as by their resistance to the usual diseases of this crop.

An international team of scientists has discovered a new plant enzyme that could eventually lead to a breakthrough in the production of cellulosic bio-based fuels made from crop wastes, as well as chemicals and plastics.

Given that most fishes convert feed to flesh much more efficiently than cows, as well as producing healthier food and contributing less methane to the atmosphere, an alternative would be to reduce beef production and instead use available land to grow crops for fish feed.

This Bioenergy Technologies Office helps solve this equation by supporting research on which bioenergy crops to grow and how to grow them; technologies designed to convert biomass to fuels and other products; and analysis methods for determining how well the production processes achieve their economic and environmental goals.

A third center, the International Center of Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Colombia, and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Nigeria, the most recent, have been established to study problems and stimulate production of certain tropical crops and animal species, as well as to help train scientific specialists.

The best maple syrups are not harvested from a mono - crop maple tree farm planted specifically for maple syrup production.

Last year's best picture winner, «Moonlight,» was a low - budget indie, for instance, and this year's crop of best picture nominees were primarily art house productions.

A better title would have been: «Fueled: The Effects of Using Food for Fuel» or something like that, because the central question of the book is to what degree has using crops to produce biomass for fuel production (usually ethanol) affected the costs of food and fuel.

Good to see the development and commercialization of natural forms of fertilizer as fertilizer is so important to food production and getting rid of some of the negative impacts of conventional fertilizers that are mass produced while getting more production out of crops is a double benefit that should help drive this product's use

The best biofuel is still ethanol from corn but it has to be part of an integrated production facility which should include the following steps: cattle feed lot, feed all waste (distiller's dried solids) to the cattle, convert the cattle waste to methane to supply part of the energy source for the distillation, burn the dry crop waste to provide the remainder of the energy, irrigate the crops with the effluent from the methane digestor.

As the realization that converting crop lands from food to fuel production probably isn't such a good

We are, for example, working with farmers in the mid-hills on diversification of crop production to show them that instead of making 5,000 rupees from a half hectare of maize in monsoon season they can generate 130,000 rupees from best - practice irrigated vegetable farming during the same period.

Many of the affordability breakthroughs are based on other parts of the system - the controller, the inverter, the motor, the pump, the water conveyance from the well to the crop, the water application system, the selection of high value diversified crops to be grown, and optimization of farmer production methods and access to market.

Activities include crop rotation, erosion control, soil fertility improvements, as well as the establishment of small agro-businesses, such as small - scale livestock and poultry production.

Hemp fits well into a diverse organic crop rotation and it's high biomass and canopy production has the potential to shade out weeds resulting in lower weed seed germination and growth.

All of these are devastating to crop production, and the agricultural effects can linger well beyond the duration of the weather event itself.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) secretary has been a vocal opponent of solar subsidies since she entered office last July, citing concerns over losing land for grazing and crops, as well as driving food production overseas.

Within 50 - 75 meters of a main road, leafy vegetables could better be avoided; production of food crops close to industries that emit certain toxic elements should be discouraged.

The environmental benefits of food - based and land - intensive biofuels are questionable at best, because the food or animal feed production the biofuel crops replaces must then be grown elsewhere.

The Food Sector includes agricultural production (crops and livestock) as well as food preparation, consumption, and waste.

Clearly, wind farm development offers rural counties feeling the brunt of increased production costs for wheat and other crops an excellent opportunity to diversify their local economy, tap into another plentiful natural resource, and help keep their farms profitable and their public services well - funded.

Diverse studies of global land cover and potential productivity suggest that anywhere from 600 million to more than 7 billion additional acres of underutilized rural lands are available for expanding rain - fed crop production around the world, after excluding the 4 billion acres of cropland currently in use, as well as the world's supply of closed forests, nature reserves, and urban lands.

Well, of course, there is the «We can not find other explanation so it must be AGW»... What about overpopulation (or better, rapid rise in population which was fed by transient rise in crop productivity, a rise that can not be sustained for more than a few years of production)?

The program would have devoted 4 million hectares of land for cultivation of crops such as Jatropha, for the production of biodiesel, as well as investing $ 322 million.

Ironically, the last season in Australia was better than many for their wheat crop which means that there is less low quality wheat going into the feed market that has been important for Chinese and other Asian meat production in recent years.

Project Drawdown's Food Sector includes agricultural production (crops and livestock) as well as food preparation, consumption, and waste.

He points in particular to animal nutrition, farm management and agronomy (the science of crop production and soil management) as areas with good prospects for graduates.

Monitored crop production to discover best methods of planting, cultivation, harvesting, and effects of various climatic conditions on crops.

I seek the post of an agronomist as I am skilled in crop production and have discovered good procedures of cultivation, planting and harvesting.