Sentences with phrase «chemical in food crops»

«Use of the nanoparticle increases soil diffusion while decreasing the risk of leaching and runoff, reducing the amount of chemical in food crops and reducing the cost to treat crops.»

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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.

Among different foods and different conventional varieties of food crop there is considerable variability in the amounts of these chemicals (Catchpole and others 2005, Ioset and others 2007, Sautter & Urbaniak 2007, Wang and Murphy 1994).

Also, engineering a crop's DNA can result in toxins within the food and the chemicals used can decrease the nutritional value of the foods.

Environmental toxins are chemicals and heavy metals found in our air, our food, our water, in the toxins sprayed on crops, and used by exterminators inside and outside our homes.

Even if you weren't downwind of Chernobyl, or Fukushima, or the Nevada nuclear site — you're exposed to over 80,000 chemicals approved for use on our crops, in our water, and in our food.

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The rampant use of agricultural chemicals is creating superweeds that laugh in the face of chemicals... which is bad news for crop productivity and food security.

Organic food: the definition In agriculture, this means that crops were grown without the use of conventional pesticides, artificial fertilizers or sewage sludge, and that they were processed without food additives (like chemical preservatives).

The rampant use of agricultural chemicals is creating superweeds that laugh in the face of chemicals; which is bad news for crop productivity and food security... but may have a silver lining.

Herbicides can no longer control the weeds that threaten crop productivity and food security in the UK because the plants have evolved resistance, and future control must depend on management strategies that reduce reliance on chemicals.