Sentences with phrase «as crop production»

For example a range of postgraduate taught and research - based courses, on areas such as crop production and fresh produce management, are offered by Writtle College.

Not exact matches

Regular biofuel production works by fermenting the sugars stored in crops such as sugar cane or corn, but the team's idea is to instead transform the sugar found in the cellulose of the residual crop material — the stalks, stems and leaves.

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.

Wheat prices spent the first few days of this week pushing back up towards their highs made back in early March as crop tours began this week to determine just how much production has been lost.

The ABS is currently projecting an increase in production of nearly 40 per cent over the year to June 2004 (and a 28 per cent rise in 2003/04 as a whole), due almost entirely to a rebound in winter crop production (Graph 35).

P. B. Thompson observes, «Agrarian society considered divine blessings in the form of abundant harvests as their engagement was in horticulture, animal husbandry and the production of crops all of which involved risk factors.

(a) The Administrator shall accredit a qualified domestic or foreign applicant in the areas of crops, livestock, wild crops, or handling or any combination thereof to certify a domestic or foreign production or handling operation as a certified operation.

While soybeans and corn are the main cash grain crops being tested in this project, we are also testing a variety of other agricultural enterprises, such as vegetable production, orchards and pastures.

As farmers increase production, improve crop quality, reduce worker complaints, and increase worker efficiency, while differentiating their product, improving their access to credit, and often earning premium prices.

Australian farmers are on track to harvest a record winter crop as weather conditions across the country boost production in every single state for the first time in nearly a decade.

Growing Produce serves as a top information source for specialty crop growers seeking information about production techniques, crop protection, farm management, new varieties, and more.

Vegetable growers ranked weeds as number one obstacle to organic crop production.

While the benefits of crop diversification (such as improved annual revenue streams and reduced exposure from mono - crop production) seem obvious, they've been hard to corroborate.

US spring wheat production will fall to a 15 - year low, as crops in North Dakota have been crippled by bad weather.

Farmers are tipped to harvest a record winter crop as growers will increase grain production for the first time in nearly a decade.

DuPont ™ Zorvec ™ disease control provides unmatched control of late blight, making it a critical component of your crop business as potato production in China increases.

It is considered as a holistic and dynamic approach of incorporating organic and permaculture farming practices including crop rotation, conservation tillage, composting, cover crops, pasture cropping, and mobile animal shelters to increases the farmer's income and food production.

This will be a major challenge in the horticultural production areas of Savannakhet and the Bolaven Plateau as little crop health capacity exists to support farmers.

Finally, we analyse date labels on packaging, look at insects as a source of sustainable food production and speak to small farmers about cocoa crops and production.

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During the early days of chile production in Nigeria, chiles were grown in patches near houses and as field crops under the shade of locust bean trees.

A 1961 report on vegetable variety trials at the Northeastern Branch Station, in Tucumcari, mentioned green chile for commercial processing as a promising crop, although hail in late spring may be a production hazard.

Clearly, farmers» agricultural knowledge and skills was an inspiration to develop a new, collaborative approach towards a more efficient use of inputs such as energy, more profitable crop production and maintenance of greater genetic diversity in situ.

Sadly, 95 % of all corn is GMO and wheat is a stored grain and both of these crops are prone to mycotoxins like mold and fungus from storage facilities as the production is so massive.

Global crop yields were beginning to decline — especially for wheat — raising doubts as to whether production could keep up with population growth.

Production of both oranges and grapefruits has dropped as citrus greening disease has damaged Florida crops — which account for the majority of grapefruits and oranges produced in the U.S. Trade publications, national media, and even the USDA have portrayed the disease as a threat to the survival of the citrus industry.

IRRI works with Indian farmers on various crop management options such as resource - conserving technologies, direct seeding, mechanization, and postharvest to streamline production practices for both rainfed and irrigated systems.

- Increase investment in research and development of plant - based foods and clean meat; - Clarify that food producers can use compound names such as «soy milk» and other descriptors on food labels; - Include commonsense measures to reform checkoff programs; and - Incentivize the production and consumption of specialty crops and pulses.

Assemblyman Bill Magee, Chair of the Assembly Agriculture Committee, said, «In just a couple of years, New York's licensed hemp crop has increased from 30 to 2000 acres, and this forum is a great chance for participants to share knowledge and experiences, and to increase the momentum to put hemp production in its rightful place in agriculture as a legitimate commodity.

«Our project is to make Ghana a regional production and manufacturing centre, by weaving together our numerous natural resources, such as our food produce, extensive cash crops, gold, bauxite, iron ore, oil and gas, with our talents and energy to turn our nation into an economic powerhouse in West Africa and beyond,» he explained.

This industrialisation, he indicated, would go hand - in - hand with improving the productivity of agriculture, spurred on by the production and marketing of additional cash crops such as cotton, coffee, oil palm, cashew and maize, which will boost export earnings for the country.

«Farm operation» means the land and on - farm buildings, equipment, manure processing and handling facilities, and practices which contribute to the production, preparation and marketing of crops, livestock and livestock products as a commercial enterprise, including a «commercial horse boarding operation» as defined in subdivision thirteen of this section, a «timber operation» as defined in subdivision fourteen of this section, «compost, mulch or other biomass crops» as defined in subdivision sixteen of this section and «commercial equine operation» as defined by subdivision seventeen of this section.

Orbih explained that a law as proposed would optimise the use of land resources in the face of overstretched land and increasing population, and create conducive environment for large - scale crop production.

The Cocobod has distributed a total of 5,548,052 improved cocoa seedlings to farmers in the Ashanti Region as part of steps it is taking to boost crop production.

«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.

In recent times, winter wheat has been increasingly grown as a cover crop in Rolling Plains cotton production systems.

We might think of roots as necessary, but uninteresting, parts of the crop production process.

Concerns have been raised that diverting significant portions of crops, such as corn, to biofuel production could have a negative impact on availability and cost of the food supply.

He said a study he authored on pollinators found that, as of 2015, 5 % to 8 % of current global crop production was attributable to pollinators, translating to an economic value of between $ 235 billion to $ 577 billion.

The prairies of the Upper Missouri River Basin are home to iconic species such as the prairie dog and provide critical habitat for many grassland birds, but they are losing ground to food production and, increasingly, to bioenergy crops.

To produce the supply, tropical countries have been converting their forests for crop and livestock production, leading to a loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, such as carbon sequestration, flood protection or pollination, while increasing carbon dioxide emissions.

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

Production systems such as monocultures that cultivate crops (for example, palm oil and sugar cane) for global distribution may benefit local communities with employment and funding opportunities, but are often reliant on over-exploited water resources.

The Pavlovsk Experiment Station, which is Europe's largest collection of fruits and berries, was established in 1926 by Nikolai Vavilov, the Russian botanist and geneticist who pioneered the concept of seed banks as repositories of crop diversity in case of threats to food production.

Straw from crops such as wheat, barley, oats and oilseed rape is seen as a potential source of biomass for second generation biofuel production.

In agricultural applications, that means you also need a strong background in areas such as soils, crop production, pest management, crop biology, and / or social sciences such as economics and sociology, depending on the type of position you're interested in.

Need for strong public outreach Agricultural production accounts for the greatest amount of global water consumption, and in this sector the authors suggest a variety of efficiency proposals such as improved irrigation systems and switching to crop varieties that consume less water.

Cover crops, such as winter wheat were also added to the mix by some producers to enhance the benefits of no - till production.

But such simple steps as leaving slash — the plant waste left over after crop production — on fields after harvests, so it could be incorporated into the soil, could reintroduce between 0.4 and 1.1 gigatons of carbon annually to soil, the study says.