Sentences with phrase «crops by»

I have inspected crops by hand in order to evaluate their health and ripeness.

Qualified to harvest and inspect crops by paying special attention to individual care for each type of planted crop.

• Assisted farmers in digging and planting seeds and applying pesticides to ensure crop health • Provided support in handling livestock by ensuring their wellbeing and safety • Harvested crops by employing predefined procedures and ensured that they are stored in ideal conditions • Assisted in milking activities and made that all milking equipment and farm machinery is kept clean and maintained • Cultivated soil and sowed crops along ensuring that proper weed control procedures are put in place

Agronomists, or Crop Scientists, produce and improve food crops by conducting experiments and developing methods of production.

• Assess the quality of soil to determine crop planting plans and dig trenches accordingly • Seed crops by hand or by using dedicated machineries by ensuring that they are planted in designated areas • Irrigate farm soil by using irrigation channels and ensure that pipes and pumps are properly maintained • Assign work activities to farm hands and direct and monitor them to ensure that they work according to specifications

Pheromone pesticides protect crops by disrupting the mating of destructive pests without killing the insects.

But Sundrop has considered that, with CEO Wayne Simmons pointing out that several southwest states regularly thin their forests, and Sundrop has considered transporting energy crops by rail as a possible solution.

So global warming's not really going to make anyone lazier per se; it's going to make it unnaturally difficult to get any work done outside — though some (climate deniers, * cough cough *) will inevitably chalk the declining productivity up to some collective lack of a will to work, I wonder how many people would last 8 hours harvesting crops by hand in 100 degree heat.

In Mozambique, 11 million hectares of land (one - seventh the country's area) has been targeted for energy crops by foreign investors.

Rain followed and on the third of the ides of july a great tempest of hail in the trent valley marvellously beyond the ordinary nothing like it had been seen before with widespread destruction of crops by floods of water in the valley of the trent such as had not happened for a long time

Global warming threatens nutrition levels in staple crops by Adam Wernick, Public Radio International (PRI), Oct 29, 2017

The drop in mean temperatures since 1950 in the Northern Hemisphere has been sufficient, for example, to shorten Britain's growing season for crops by two weeks... The first half of this century has apparently been the warmest period since the «hot spell» between 5,000 and 7,000 years ago immediately following the last ice age.»

We recently told you of a study warning that global warming could prompt the large - scale collapse of the world's crops by 2080; now comes another study concluding that rising levels of ozone could achieve the same result by century's end.

Does the growing and harvesting of food crops by a modern agribusiness count?

The locals around the lake still harvest crops by hand and usually wear a traditional dress, such as women working in petticoats and bowler hats and children in colorful Andean clothes.

This article examines what happens when a sugar planter tries to save his sugar crops by importing a few mongooses to eat the rats.

Not only are you learning to provide for yourself in times of need, you may begin cultivating healthier crops by eliminating many of the chemical preservatives found in non-organic seeds year to year without paying extra for them — anything that saves me money is a plus in my book!

They use natural plant centromeres (a key part of chromosomes needed for their inheritance), promoters (gene activation sites), and gene - termination sequences to assemble linear or circular minichromosomes that contain at least a dozen genes that can improve crops by promoting traits like pest and disease resistance.

Based on reports of cane toad introduction helping to increase yields in Hawaiian sugar cane crops by eating beetles, Reginald Mungomery organized the import of toads.

These experiments suggest that higher CO2 levels could boost the yields of non-C4 crops by around 13 per cent.

Citing evidence from laboratory and field studies that neonicotinoids threaten honey bees and other pollinators, the European Union is poised to ban the use of three of the most common neonicotinoids in several crops by the end of the year.

«Breeding higher yielding crops by increasing sugar import into seeds.»

Experts from the Pharmacy Faculty and the Higher Technical School of Agricultural Engineering (Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica — ETSIA) of the University of Seville have published a study that shows that when reducing the water used to water cherry tomato crops by more than 50 %, the product not only maintains its quality, both commercially and nutritionally, but it also even increases the level of carotenoids, compounds of great interest in the food - processing industry.

Rising temperatures could extend the growing season in northern latitudes, and an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could benefit some crops by improving water efficiency.

Tomato plants deter attacks from a parasitic plant that's known to ravage crops by detecting one of its peptides, a new study reveals.

With bee populations tumbling, an autonomous drone just 4 centimetres wide could help pollinate crops by flying from flower to flower

This can have a dramatic impact on crops by reducing their yields and can endanger some species of plant altogether.

Indigenes and farmers of Ekpetiama Kingdom in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have cried out over the destruction of their farmlands and crops by cattle led by herdsmen.

He said that merits of the Bill included prevention of destruction of farms and crops by herdsmen and their cattle, and legal backing to herdsmen who would register their business to operate according to the law.

Another major unresolved, and irresolvable, problem is the severe cross-contamination of nearby conventional or organic crops by GM pollen.

Further, the likely prospect of contamination of food crops by GM crops engineered with Terminator places the entire global food supply at imminent risk, and it therefore poses unacceptable threats to food and seed sovereignty and agro-biodiversity.

It was exciting to discover the endless possibilities to create new crops by simply using nature — and technology enabled me to cope with these factors.

I'm sowing hardy spring crops by seed this week -LCB- chard, mustard, spinach, radishes, and the like -RCB-.

«Three sisters» is the name given to three companion crops — corn, squash and beans, grown as major crops by Native Americans for generations.

They very rarely use anything for insect control, preferring to create resilient crops by building healthy soils and using inputs such as neem oil only as a last resort.

For home pepper gardeners, organic techniques seem to triumph over chemical gardening because the vast majority of growers will be able to raise great pepper crops by simply adding compost and aged manure to the garden each year.

A man sows seed, «it sprouts and grows — how, he does not know — the ground produces a crop by itself,» and almost before he knows what is happening, «harvest time has come.»

You can save a lot of your giant zucchini crop by dehydrating it.

From there, the pepper somehow made its way into southern Colorado where farmers grew it haphazardly until Bartolo began to improve the crop by using classic crop breeding techniques.

Wheat is the most important individual crop by tonnage and value.

reducing phosphorus losses from crop spillages, non-edible crop by - products, and wastage during food processing, retail and household food consumption

It seemed all along that the Miami Marlins were going to catch the big fish in the free agent crop by...

In addition, attendees will discuss ways to capitalize on the potential of this crop by assessing research needs and identifying key areas for future research.

With any luck, researchers will be able to balance out the stresses on the finicky cacao crop by applying what they've learned from the sequencing of the cacao tree genome.

If the stars are faint and become visible a day or two later than normal, the villagers believe a drought must be coming, and they postpone planting the potato crop by 4 to 6 weeks.

The» Once Upon a Dream» collection from CrOp by David Peck is indeed any woman's fantasy wardrobe.

The hair chameleon updates short crop by adding asymmetrical layers and enhancing the rich brown hue.

This collection from CrOp by David Peck could easily be a complete wardrobe for any fashionista and proves yet again eco-fashion can have a true fashion - forward design aesthetic that still stands for a great cause.

It is shorter than I expected (I thought it'd be long enough to cover my butt) but it is not short or cropped by any means (I am 5» 3 and usually size S in shirts).

These sleeves are cropped by design so they always let a nice amount of the shirt below peek out.