Sentences with phrase «causing yield losses»

Charcoal rot is a relatively unknown disease causing yield losses in crops across South Africa, including maize.

Macassane, a new IRRI - bred rice variety released in Mozambique in 2011, also has improved resistance to baterial leaf blight, which causes yield losses across the country.

Studies at IRRI showed that sheath blight causes a yield loss of 6 % across lowland rice fields in tropical Asia.

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A big part of the reason Vanguard High Dividend Yield didn't give investors relatively smaller losses during the recent sell - off has to do with the nature of what caused the correction.

Erosion and the loss of soil fertility cause further complications, and as yields decline, more and more petrochemical fertilizers are applied to the soil, finding their way into already polluted water supplies.

Transitioning to sustainable farming methods can take years, and often causes temporary losses in yield as the farmers and the land adjust.

Whenever susceptible rice varieties are grown in environments that favor bacterial blight, very high yield losses, as much as over 70 %, may be caused by bacterial blight.

Blast caused great yield loss on traditional glutinous rice varieties and farmers were spraying fungicides for up to seven times.

Late - season weeds caused a 19 percent to 76 percent chile yield loss, depending on density, in a Schroeder field trial.

Pepper diseases can cause extensive losses in yield and quality.

«But many commercial crops are sensitive to soil salinity and this can cause major losses to crop yields.

Like his colleague Daniel Giddings Vassão, Felipe Wouters is from Brazil, where fall armyworm caused major losses of the maize yield before Bt maize was introduced.

Considering that over 50 % of calories in local diets come from maize, yield losses caused by MSV can result in food shortages and famine.

Alien species are one of the main threats to biodiversity and native species as well as causing immense economic damage, e.g. via yield losses in agriculture.

Whenever susceptible rice varieties are grown in environments that favor bacterial blight, very high yield losses, as much as over 70 %, may be caused by bacterial blight.

Blast caused great yield loss on traditional glutinous rice varieties and farmers were spraying fungicides for up to seven times.

«The situation with low - yielding debt has gotten so extreme that Fitch Ratings warned Tuesday that a simple normalization of yields to 2011 levels could cause investor losses of $ 3.8 trillion.

It essentially causes the retiree to lock in low bond returns and even capital losses on a bond fund as bond yields gradually increase (on average) over time.

to the US, not to mention the loss of lives due to the drop in temps which would cause lower crop yields.

The heat would also cause staple crops to suffer dramatic yield losses across the globe (it is possible that Indian wheat and U.S. corn could plummet by as much as 60 percent), this at a time when demand will be surging due to population growth and a growing demand for meat.

Tardive frosts, i.e. frost events occurring after grapevine budburst, are a significant risk for viticultural practices, which have recently caused substantial yield losses over different winegrowing regions of France, e.g. in 2016 and 2017.

... in seeking to maximize yields to meet growing global food demand, has caused loss of soil organic carbon (SOC) and compaction, impairing critical regulating and supporting ecosystem services upon which humans also depend.