Sentences with phrase «better crop varieties»

The piece also stresses the importance of building the capacity to spread word of better crop varieties and farming practices.

It entails relatively simple strategies, such as government subsidies for fertilizers and better crop varieties, so that farmers pay only 25 percent of the actual costs.

Without better crop varieties or other agricultural technology improvements, irrigated wheat yields, for example, will fall at least 20 percent by 2050 as a result of global warming, and south Asia as well as parts of sub-Saharan Africa will face the worst effects.

Not exact matches

Very good baccatum variety especially for a beginner grower as it's very easy and gives nice crops even when ideal growing conditions are not available.

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.

An IRRI - led rice landscape management project is collaborating with national organizations in validating technologies and suitable rice varieties for the sloping uplands, as well as improving the upland rice - based cropping system.

This makes the third year in a row that California's predominate variety produced a healthy sized crop, thus keeping winery tanks brimming with wine destined for both case good demands and surplus bulk.

In his time with IRRI, Dr. Morell has been instrumental in shaping the institute's research and outreach agenda, including IRRI's leadership on climate change - ready rice, healthier rice varieties, farmer - friendly crop management and value chain practices as well as encouraging the next generation of rice scientists.

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.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

A good example of the development of a crop variety with resistance to a pest is an indigenous sorghum variety with resistance to the stem borer, Chilo partellus.

It could very well be argued that the lack of pesticides in organic crops inherently makes them a healthier alternative to conventional varieties, especially when it comes to berries, peaches, and apples (which have some of the highest pesticide loads).

He explained that the open system farming would be used to grow the crop, adding that improved varieties would be made available to the farmers so as to produce better yield.

Many scientists are trying to unravel the complex crop genetics that allows these crops to tolerate environmental extremes, and they hope to use conventional breeding methods to create varieties that perform even better.

Traditionally, researchers used visible traits, such as pod number, to select crop varieties that grow well in specific environments.

It is time to subsidize a wider variety of crops, to make eating well also economical.

Purdue University researchers have pinpointed the gene that controls whether soybean seed coats are hard or permeable, a finding that could be used to develop better varieties for southern and tropical regions, enrich the crop's genetic diversity and boost the nutritional value of soybeans.

You can imagine that such a «sensing and response» mechanism involving CRSP and EPF2 could be used to engineer crop varieties which are better able to perform in the current and future high CO2 global climate where fresh water availability for agriculture is dwindling.»

Kelly Swarts et al. suspected that this later adoption may have occurred due to the survival of certain varieties of the crop, which were better suited for the tougher growing conditions at high altitudes.

The science may be there, but the money isn't Traditionally, plant breeders scan fields in search of favorable traits in crops and collect seeds of the best varieties to save.

In the meantime, researchers are sorting through thousands of varieties of staple crops, trying to find those that are best at drawing nutrients out of the ground.

As part of an initiative launched in Washington DC earlier this month, researchers in 12 countries have started to hunt for varieties of the top five staple crops — rice, wheat, corn, cassava and beans — that might grow better in poor soils, as well as providing added trace nutrients for the people who eat them.

According to Welch, the first step in the programme will be to find natural varieties of crops that are good at extracting nutrients from the soil.

Dr Steven Spoel of the University of Edinburgh's School of Biological Sciences, who led the study, said: «Understanding nitrogen absorption better will ultimately allow us to breed crop varieties that need less fertiliser, and therefore are better for the environment.»

The 50 researchers also call on the federal government to provide better funding for crop breeding efforts at public universities, and for universities to develop new ways of steering revenues from popular crop varieties back into research.

«When breeders make crosses to develop new varieties, they are seeking new combinations of alleles that are better suited to the agricultural environment or market for the crop product,» Close explained.

Researchers at private agricultural firms tend to focus on creating better varieties of widely - grown, high - value crops, such as wheat and corn.

A conversation about better ways to distribute revenue generated by publicly - created crop varieties is also overdue, says Bill Tracy, a sweet corn breeder at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and one of the summit's organizers.

«By adaptation, we mean a range of options based on existing technologies, such as switching varieties of a crop, installing irrigation or growing a different crop, one better suited to warmer temperatures,» said Lobell, the associate director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford.

They had to hope for the best with the leeks and garlic because modern crop varieties are likely to be quite different from ancient ones.

Plant breeding is the genetic improvement of the crop in order to develop new varieties with desirable characters (traits)-- higher yield, resistance to diseases, better nutrition (higher micronutrient content).

UVALDE — A recent study led Texas A&M AgriLife Research has shown ground - penetrating radar, or GPR, may be effectively used in detecting the fine roots of plants, helping agricultural producers identify what crop varieties are best suited to their field conditions.

Cassava breeding is a slow process, but Rabbi and his colleagues from IITA, National Root Crops Research Institute in Nigeria and National Crops Resources Research Institute in Uganda hope to speed things up using the genetic resources in NextGen's cassavabase.org, which can help breeders to pick the best parental varieties and provides a unified platform for sharing cassava breeding information.

In a serendipitous moment, scientists studying light sensing molecules in plants have discovered that they are also temperature sensors.The discovery may eventually allow them to design crop varieties that are better able to cope with a warming world.

Technology such as high - yielding wheat varieties that tolerate drought and high temperatures, as well as resisting new or modified strains of deadly crop diseases spawned in rapidly warming environments, are the outputs from WHEAT research that lead to positive outcomes for farmers and consumers.

«His research has had a significant impact on crop management, identifying the structural reasons some plant varieties can withstand heat or disease stress so much better than other varieties,» Auvermann said.

Scientifically, his research can help breeders, geneticists, agronomists and irrigation engineers develop better varieties and management strategies to increase crop yield and water - use efficiency, his nomination stated.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University researchers have tested all the university's wheat varieties, as well as others around the Northwest, and found none with the genetically modified herbicide resistance discovered in an Oregon crop this spring.

Delaware's leading fruit crop reaches ripeness beginning in July, and those delicate «early summer» varieties (like Galas, Ginger Golds, and Paula Reds) are best eaten fresh.

Rather than waiting for a problem to crop up I approach pregnancy from a pro-active standpoint using supplements, nutrition and a variety of other modalities to reduce risks and make your pregnancy and birth the best it can be.

Pumpkin, with its large store of vitamins and minerals, is a heart - healthy super crop that pairs well with many other fruits and vegetables, and may be used as the base for a variety of different casseroles, salads, and desserts.

For example, I was offered a gig of writing a book on exotic fruits, so that consumers in California had a better idea of the wide variety open to them (and farmers had a market for their crop varieties).

It's a good variety, from pirates to ghosts to slice - of - life, all the top crop of what Shonen Jump is offering today in Japan.

Different ear shapes and lengths, coat textures and lengths, tail - docking and ear - cropping for breed - specific «aesthetics» (unnecessary and cruel if you ask me) as well as the great variety in breeds and looks (floppy ears vs pricked or long tails vs fluffy curled up tails) greatly affects their ability to express themselves the way a more wolf - like dog (such as a German Shepherd or a Husky) would.

But the major addition is the new theme of connectivity,» as trading with other countries will help grow the player's crop variety and wallet, as well as the prosperity of the entire town.

There are a wide variety of ways to play, as well as ample opportunities for specialization (e.g. a player can choose to focus their farming on either crops or animal products, and so on).

It is also an area where mitigation is not the only potentially useful strategy, because it should be possible to create new strains of important food crops better suited to a changed climate than current varieties.

Faced with longer and hotter summers, many farmers in the Sundarbans have embraced organic farming with local crop varieties that are better adapted to a changing climate

To reduce methane, a greenhouse gas over 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide, farmers in California and the Mid-South implemented a variety of groundbreaking voluntary conservation practices that included alternate wetting and drying and early drainage of their fields as well as crop residue management.

In the long - term, with a good prospect for more extremes, it could be beneficial to think about diversifying crops to reduce dependency on varieties that are susceptible to the pattern of early heat followed by cold snaps.