Sentences with phrase «breadbasket region»

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This is the breadbasket of America — the region that supplies at least one fifth of the total annual U.S. agricultural harvest.

Using conventionally bred hybrid seeds, farmers in certain fertile areas of Ethiopia have witnessed their fields turn into a breadbasket that is rivaled in the sub-Saharan region of the continent only by South Africa.

Masiello is an expert on how carbon behaves in soil, and she noticed a vexing problem in both the scientific literature and findings from her lab: Charcoal is abundant in soil, particularly in fertile regions like Europe's breadbasket and America's Corn Belt, but while it's clear that most soil charcoal came from wildfires, it wasn't at all clear why it stayed there so long or how it got into the soil after a fire.

The fear is that these airborne and highly virulent strains could spread from known sites to some of the world's most important «breadbasket» regions, such as the Punjab in South Asia, where these strains have not yet been detected.

We tour the ancient city of Rome before travelling through the olive groves, vineyards and almond trees of a region referred to as «the breadbasket of Italy» on a wonderful adventure exploring Puglia & Basilicata.

U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney — «Our farms in the Hudson Valley are the breadbasket of the region and add tens of millions of dollars to the local economy.

Even now, as I'm writing this, important regions of the Midwest, the «breadbasket» of the nation, are getting hit with severe storms and flooding that will surely affect crop yields and food prices.

The region in northern India spanning the Punjab and the Gangetic Plain is India's breadbasket.

But according to the World Wildlife Fund, improvements to irrigation practices in just one Turkish agricultural region could remove much of that uncertainty, saving enough water annually to meet Istanbul's needs for up to three years.This month, a joint project by WWF and Turkish cookie and cracker manufacturer ETİ Burçak will begin training farmers in Konya, a fertile region of central Anatolia known as «Turkey's breadbasket,» to use modern drip - irrigation methods that reduce water consumption by one third to one half.