Sentences with phrase «china fertilizer use»

Today, agricultural experts estimate that in many parts of China fertilizer use can be slashed by up to 60 %.

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China reportedly has 10 % of global arable land and uses over 30 % of global fertilizer.

«There isn't any way to use fertilizer without some loss to the environment, but in China the amount is far in excess of what's required.»

«In the highly productive regions of China, they are putting on often two or three times more fertilizer that a Midwestern American or European farmer would use.

«Astounding» levels of fertilization «Food security is a very big issue in China, so the Chinese government has been subsidizing fertilizer costs, and as a result farmers in China are using fertilizer rates that are astounding,» said Davidson, who is one of the authors of a recent U.N. Environment Programme report on global nutrient supply.

For example, populations of earthworms are plummeting now in China because of China's heavy use of pesticides and fertilizers.

And his critics agree with him on one matter: the paper points to the importance of reducing fertilizer use in China.

In March of 2007, for example, more than 100 brands of pet food, including some of the most prominent names in the industry — like Hill's Science Diet, Iams, Eukanuba, and Purina — were contaminated by melamine, a chemical used in fertilizer and plastics and, in this case, imported into the United States from China.

«Some parts of the world, including much of China, use far too much fertilizer,» Mr. Vitousek said.

In China, where fertilizer manufacturing is government - subsidized, the average grain yield per acre grew 98 percent between 1977 and 2005, while nitrogen fertilizer use increased a dramatic 271 percent, according to government statistics.

Among other findings, the authors said that fertilizer use on corn in northern China could be cut in half with no loss of production.

Statistics show that from 2003 to 2005, annual corn yields in parts of the Midwestern United States and north China were almost the same, even though Chinese farmers used six times more nitrogen fertilizer than their American counterparts and generated nearly 23 times the amount of excess nitrogen.

In 2004 Kenyan corn farmers were using about 1 percent of the fertilizer per acre that their counterparts in China do.

China's environmental record much more mundane things than greenhouse gas emissions, such as lead utilization, agricultural fertilizer and pesticide use, and water use, and treatment, is deplorable.

The opportunities for improvement are even greater in rapidly developing economies such as China, which now uses much more nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer much less efficiently than either the United States or Europe, and at a much higher cost in pollution and human health.

It also shows how biogas digesters are being used in Yunnan Province, China to produce biogas for cooking and fertilizer for farming.