Sentences with word «agrichemicals»

Scientists, consumer groups and bee keepers say the devastating rate of bee deaths is due at least in part to the growing use of pesticides sold by agrichemical companies to boost yields of staple crops such as corn.

By contrast, the researchers found that the use of agrichemicals differed widely among major supply regions, with China's own farmers dosing their fields with six times more fertilizer and pesticide than growers in sub-Saharan Africa.

Supplements are called for especially if all ingredients are not organically certified, because the soils of conventional agriculture are nutrient deficient, and almost toxic with synthetic agrichemical fertilizers and pesticides which also contaminate crops.

Produce from poultry and livestock fed these crops and their byproducts can also be nutritionally deficient and contaminated with agrichemicals.

«Additionally, by avoiding agrichemicals including chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides, our company's organic farming and ranching practices protect our land, waterways and fisheries,» he continues.

But one thing is clear — with big agrichemical companies like Monsanto buying up the whole process from the technology to change seeds, to the seed suppliers, to the spray needed, they are effectively controlling the supply chain of staple food sources like corn that feed the world.

To facilitate this result using Brazilian agrichemical containers, DuPont collaborated with multiple companies in the value chain to help establish a closed - loop recycle program and higher - value end - use processing.

In 2010, DuPont received a sustainable products award in Brazil for its role in enabling a recycled packaging process for multi-layer agrichemical bottles.

The Sustainability Report highlights actions undertaken by the wine industry such as enhancing biodiversity, reducing and recycling by - products, optimising water and energy use, investing in people, protecting soil, and reducing agrichemical use.

The Green Revolution led to massive genetic erosion in farmers fields and knowledge, erosion among farming communities, besides leading to large scale environmental pollution due to use of toxic agrichemicals and wasteful use of water.

Monsanto Co, DuPont, Syngenta AG, Bayer AG and other agrichemical companies say the bees are being killed by other factors, such as mites.

«This is a competitive arena that includes agrichemical giants who are busily working to bring similar drought - protecting molecules to market, so this is a landmark discovery because quinabactin is the first - in - class synthetic molecule of its kind,» Cutler said.

This adoption by contracted producers is not unexpected, since a handful of powerful pharmaceutical and agrichemical multinational corporations like Bayer and Monsanto, have gained a monopolistic control over the major commodity crop seed stocks, making available to farmers only their highly promoted, patented varieties of GE seeds.

To find documented evidence of the nutritional superiority of organically certified foods and the prenatal (epigenetic) risks of poor nutrition and agrichemical contaminants, visit the Organic Center.

We advise the full spectrum of industry players including companies involved in agribusiness and food production, processing and distribution, agrichemicals manufacturers, processors of agricultural commodities, manufacturers of precision farming equipment, alternative fuel producers, soft commodities traders and financial institutions.

Identifying an agriculture executive with the experience to manage your food production facility, agrichemical productions plant, or wholesale and distribution center can be frustrating and time consuming.

«We are also required to buy certified organic feed that's been produced without synthetic agrichemicals or GM.

«This is a technology that could allow the development of a whole new generation of agrichemicals,» says David Baulcombe of the University of Cambridge.

The seed, voiced by comedian Pete Holmes, offers an alternative narrative in hopes of challenging the hold big agrichemical companies have on the market.

Vanishing Bees takes us inside the debates over widespread honeybee deaths, introducing the various groups with a stake in solving the mystery of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), including beekeepers, entomologists, growers, agrichemical companies, and government regulators.

This is mainly because the extremely complex international industrial food system has internal problems such as nutrient - deficient soils and crops, along with agrichemical and animal drug residues that call for entirely different, ecologically sound, sustainable and humane farming practices.

The agrichemicals industry has seen a wave of consolidation in recent months.

Shoppers who buy certified organic not only get truly free range eggs, they're also buying eggs that are produced without artificial colour additives, antibiotics and synthetic agrichemicals.

During the recent two decades remarkable advances in genetics and genetic engineering in the private sector have produced crops that increase yields, reduce use of agrichemicals and increase sustainable practices of agriculture.

According to Robyn O'Brien of AllergyKids, «Leading pediatric allergists and researchers have been funded by the agrichemical corporation responsible for engineering these proteins, chemicals and toxins into soy.»

According to Robyn O'Brien, «Leading pediatric allergists and researchers have been funded by the agrichemical corporation responsible for engineering these proteins, chemicals and toxins into soy.»

Industrial tree plantations, such as those now covering much of the previously forested southeastern U.S. are ecologically depauperate and depend on large inputs of fertilizers and agrichemicals.

As far as the eye can see: corn and its companion crop, soy, blanket half of U.S. farmland.Source: National Corn Growers Association, World of Corn 2010And to grow all that corn on that gorgeous land, farmers douse the soil annually with massive amounts of agrichemicals.