Sentences with phrase «crop of sugarcane»

SFC also has used dasheen — a root crop of sugarcane that extracts nutrients from the soil and liquid in which it is placed — in its aquaculture research.

Not exact matches

As in many other crop species, genetically modified (GM) varieties of sugarcane are forecast to improve profitability by reducing input costs, increasing sucrose yield or introducing novel products.

The other, a wild relative of sugarcane (Saccharum spontaneum), provides hardiness to harsh environments and the ability to ratoon or produce additional profitable crops from re-growth after harvest.

Sugarcane is grown in a range of environments from northern New South Wales to far north Queensland and is a major export crop for Australia.

The U.S. is drunk on ethanol — but whether it is made from corn or sugarcane, the crop - derived biofuel raises a host of questions

By turning crops such as corn, sugarcane and palm oil into biofuels — whether ethanol, biodiesel, or something else — proponents hope to reap the benefits of the carbon soaked up as the plants grow to offset the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted when the resulting fuel is burned.

The digital sugarcane, described earlier this year by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana — Champaign, illustrates how crops in silicomight aid farmers.

That will include inedible components of Hawaiian crops, such as macadamia nuts and sugarcane, as well as guinea grass and eucalyptus.

In Madagascar, for example, the most important food crops include rice, cassava, maize, sugarcane, wheat, sweet potatoes, soybean, beans, and bananas, all of which originated elsewhere.

Mexico is in the middle - ground due to the continued popularity in local diets of crops like maize and beans, two plants native to the region, alongside sugarcane (with origins in Southeast and South Asia) and wheat.

Environmentalists have also become critical of using corn, sugarcane and other agricultural crops because they typically need lots of fresh water, fossil fuel — rich fertilizer and land to grow.

Other targets announced by Rousseff include 12 million hectares of reforestation, 5 million hectares of crops - livestock - forestry integration, the end of illegal deforestation, and meeting 45 % of the country's energy needs with renewables — up from a 40 % share today — largely thanks to hydroelectricity and sugarcane ethanol.

The new study estimates land available for growing biofuels — crops such as corn or sugarcane that can be converted to fuels - at between 56 and 1035 million hectares, compared to previous estimates of 320 to 1411 million hectares.

The cotton fields and sugarcane crops look absolutely gorgeous, but people are still being whipped to harvest them; this juxtaposition of aesthetic beauty and moral cruelty is part of the back - and - forth the movie puts you through.

The small towns of Bellavista and Santa Rosa were established in the humid highlands, where farmers raised cattle and planted crops such as avocados, coffee, sugarcane, bananas, oranges, and lemons.

Biofuels from food crops today — such as maize, vegetable oils, and sugarcane — provide about 2.5 percent of the world's transportation fuel.

The next generation of bioenergy technology aims to replace current feedstocks such as corn, sorghum, sugarcane, rapeseed, soy, and oil palm with dedicated cellulosic crops (Kszos et al. 2000; Heaton et al. 2008b), such as woody tree species and the grasses switchgrass (Panacum vergatum) and miscanthus (Miscanthus x giganteus)(Lewandowski et al. 2000).

(Note that the study did not look at first generation biofuels made from tropical crops like sugarcane or sweet sorghum which reduce emissions far more than corn ethanol; for sugarcane ethanol, the reduction is as large as that of cellulosic biofuels, earlier post.)

Faced with a seemingly insatiable demand for automotive fuel, farmers will want to clear more and more of the remaining tropical forests to produce sugarcane, oil palms, and other high - yielding biofuel crops.