Sentences with phrase «crop planted on the land»

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We maintain our own certified planting seed, and personally contracted with «Seedsmen» who have not grown any wheat, rye or barley on their land for the last 2 years and who use their combines for only Gluten Free Oats, LLC or non gluten crops.

Only 10 % of the chemicals and pesticides used in conventional cotton farming lands on the cotton crops, the rest gets into our plants, soil, water, air and eventually back into our systems.

What's more, the rest of the crop — the vast black - market portion — is planted on public or tribal lands by people who ignore the environmental consequences of their activity.

To help improve crop breeding strategies and overcome challenges such as making plants more tolerant of marginal lands, and stresses such as drought and low nutrient availability, researchers are focusing on understanding and promoting beneficial plant - microbe relationships.

The information gathered from these rice plants will be used to create drought - resistant corn and crops that will grow in depleted soil, perhaps on marginal land in the United States or Asia.

«It's entirely likely that as much as 500,000 acres of land in California will be left unplanted this year because there just won't be enough water to sustain the crops that would have been planted on that land.»

AltAir does better by sourcing its bio — jet fuel from oil seed — bearing plants, like camelina, but that limits the amount that can be planted in rotation with food crops like wheat given constraints on the amount of land available for the latter.

That crop could be expanded, he says, if the new aluminum - tolerant plants could be grown on some of the 3 million hectares of tropical Mexican land where aluminum toxicity has prevented papaya cultivation.

Chasman Award recipient Tiffany Victor explores how to enhance the symbiotic relationship between plants and microbes and the potential to grow bio-energy crops on nutrient - poor lands.

The Land Institute's work, led by a team of plant breeders and ecologists in multiple partnerships worldwide, is focused on developing perennial grains, pulses and oilseed bearing plants to be grown in ecologically intensified, diverse crop mixtures known as perennial polycultures.

This remote and rarely visited region offers the trekker an insider's view into traditional Andean life — a timeless world where farmers plant their crops on the lands their ancestors tended and watch over herds of llama and alpaca beneath the sacred snow - covered peaks they worshipped as gods.

We'll continue our trip towards Suasi Island; one of the lake's most beautiful and fascinating islands which offers ecological tourism alternatives, such as hikes, to observe the flora and wild bird species, Andean crops, medicinal plant land parcels, walks on the beach and totora boat rides.

Also nice is the fact that you are no longer restricted to planting crops on your own land.

IMO the only sense in planting forests would be on hilly land that can not be used for crops or grazing lands.

Relying heavily on biofuels made from food crops — such as soybeans, sugar cane, or canola — would not only affect food supplies and increase food prices, but would produce significant greenhouse gases during the planting and harvesting of these crops, as well as from forest clearing for more agricultural land.

Practically speaking, one would probably use for ethanol production only a little over half of the soil bank lands and add to this some portion of the plants now grown as animal feed crops (for example, on the 70 million acres that now grow soybeans for animal feed).

Human land use changes are only roughly known, based on cleared area at one side and reforestration at the other side, and the difference betzeen CO2 capturing between tropical forests and replacement by crops, or the uptake by planting new forests.

When the earth's temperature rises on average by more than two degrees, interactions between different consequences of global warming (reduction in the area of arable land, unexpected crop failures, extinction of diverse plant and animal species) combined with increasing populations mean that hundreds of millions of people may die from starvation or disease in future famines.

On state - and community - owned lands, carbon finance would be used to fund sustainable development initiatives, like planting crops on degraded lands and reforestatioOn state - and community - owned lands, carbon finance would be used to fund sustainable development initiatives, like planting crops on degraded lands and reforestatioon degraded lands and reforestation.

About 91 % of farmers are practicing the technology at different levels depending on the component adopted out of the six, namely minimum land tillage; laying out fixed planting basins; no burning of crop residues; planting and input application in basins; and rotation with nitrogen - fixing crops for soil fertility restitution, outlined by the Conservation Farming Unit (CFU).

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Since biodiesel is made from soybean, palm, canola, flax, sunflower, and other plant oils, those crops must be grown on millions of acres of land, using enormous amounts of water, fertilizer, pesticides, and energy.

[The conventional reasoning] double counts the carbon absorbed by plants when the bioenergy crops are grown on land already used for crop production or already growing other plants because the bioenergy does not necessarily result in additional carbon absorption.

Strip cropping permits soil moisture to accumulate on the fallowed strips, while the alternating planted strips reduce wind speed and hence erosion on the idled land.

Later on palms or other crops may be planted on the land, but the criminals are the loggers.

Let's just make that clear again: Cut down tropical rainforest (say in Indonesia and Malaysia), plant the land with a biofuel crop (perhaps oil palms) and because of the soil on which that forest used to grow it would take 600 hundred years for the carbon emitted from that land conversion to be balanced out by carbon savings by using that biofuel for transport.

Even though the moutainous land is difficult to plant crops on, Georgia's economy revolves around agriculture as its main export.