Sentences with phrase «as crop protection»

The Commission will investigate further whether the deal may reduce competition in areas such as crop protection, seeds and certain petrochemicals.

The Commission will investigate further whether the deal may reduce competition in areas such as crop protection, seeds and certain...

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The European Commission opened a full investigation into the case in August, concerned that the deal to create the world's largest integrated crop protection and seeds company may reduce competition in these sectors as well as certain petrochemicals.

The back page then contains a call for three «Rogation Days,» or times of prayer and procession «for protection against calamities, such as storms, pestilence, famine, and war, and for God's blessing upon our crops.»

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.

Research at the Azienda Agraria Sperimentale Stuard includes techniques of fertilization, crop rotation, integrated pest management, protection and balance of nutrients in the soil as well as organic cultivation.

Because of its appeal to a variety of insects, conventional cotton gets treated with pesticides more than any other crop except coffee.The pesticides used, cyanide, dicofol, naled, propargite and trifluralin, are all known to cause cancer, and have been classified by the US Environmental Protection Agency as the most dangerous pesticides.

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.

«DDT resistance in Africa as well as several other parts of the world has been acquired because of massive use of these insecticides for crop protection,» Guillet says.

Thus, this study opens new opportunities for developing novel strategies for crop protection against pathogenic fungi, as well as for the development of more specific fungicides

«Crop protection products such as fungicides help farmers grow quality crops free of disease and achieve better yields, which keeps prices low for consumers,» said Mike Leggett, senior director of environmental policy at CropLife America.

As well as providing protection from the increasingly unpredictable weather, the premiums could also be a powerful way to get poor people to adapt to climate change by encouraging them to invest in measures like drought - resistant cropAs well as providing protection from the increasingly unpredictable weather, the premiums could also be a powerful way to get poor people to adapt to climate change by encouraging them to invest in measures like drought - resistant cropas providing protection from the increasingly unpredictable weather, the premiums could also be a powerful way to get poor people to adapt to climate change by encouraging them to invest in measures like drought - resistant crops.

The White House announced last July that it would revise the nearly 24 - year - old framework for how companies should clear agricultural biotech products, such as genetically modified (GM) crops and animals, with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

BABA has long been known for its protective effects against devastating plant diseases, such as potato blight, but has so far not been used widely in crop protection because of undesirable side effects.

These biodegradable particles could be the basis for reduced risk conventional pesticide products that have the potential to reduce the amount of chemicals used in plant protection by as much as 90 percent, save farmers more than 25 percent on pest - control initiatives and, in a world facing looming food shortages, help increase crop yields for more and better food.

These crops are often eaten by animals, so their protection lies in the ability of their seeds (the «grain» itself) to pass through the animal and emerge on the other side as a pre-fertilized seed, ready to grow.

This chemical is actually banned in the European Union — it is illegal for UK farmers to spray any crop intended for human consumption with chlorpyrifos as of 2016 — but the US Environmental Protection Agency has refused to ban it.

Some don't but those that do have short crops known as shepherd cross the lower the odds of an ear related injury while protection livestock.

[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG, water vapor, exists in equilibrium with water / ice, would precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet, water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US corn crop, Russian wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails — or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)

Even the plants we depend on for food are exposed to so much carbon that nutritional value is declining, and some crops — wheat and corn — are producing toxins as protection from extreme weather.

He sees genetic engineering as a tool for environmental protection: crops designed to grow on less land with less pesticide; new microbes that protect ecosystems against invasive species, produce new fuels and maybe sequester carbon.

Called the My Tanbo Bra, Gizmag writes, «Behind each of the planters, bra pads roll out to double up as protection from the sun for the arms, while the straps feature sparkling decorations to dissuade pesky airborne pests from stealing your crop.

A Canadian researcher's bread breakthough could lead to natural crop protection as well as better bread

Recent months have seen vigorous debates about the policy aspects of protection of employees» rights on business transfers and outsourcing, as well as the usual crop of case law.

Prior to arriving in Toronto, Tuckett was corporate counsel at DuPont's headquarters in Wilmington, serving as commercial counsel supporting its crop protection business platform.

QUALIFICATION SUMMARY Utilized prior crop protection and seed expertise to successfully drive sales in the Orrick Farm Service area as well as a ten - county central Illinois sales area while with DuPont.