Sentences with phrase «crops of cassava»

All 72 men in the village participated in clearing the undergrowth beneath the coconut palms and other trees and they planted crops of cassava, beans and aubergines.

Rainfall is minimal and the central part of the island bears meagre crops of cassava and beans farmed to supplement the fresh supply of vegetables that are ferried from Bali daily.

Not exact matches

Such industries include red meat, poultry, dairy, brewery, canning, paper and packaging, food processing and agribusiness processing including many of the world's most important crops, including fruit, cane, grain, maize, yams, sorghum, potatoes, beans and cassava.

The technologies are particularly effective for industries such as red meat, poultry, dairy, brewery, canning, paper and packaging, food processing and agribusiness processing including many of the world's most important crops, including fruit, cane, grain, maize, yams, sorghum, potatoes, beans and cassava

Hypothetically, if all the main cereal and sugar crops (wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, sugar cane, cassava and sugar beet), representing 42 % of global cropland, were to be converted to ethanol, this would correspond to only 57 % of total petrol use in 2003, and leave no cereals or sugar for human consumption (although the reduced sugar in the human diet would have health benefits).

Aside from its work on grasses, CIAT has focused on breeding improved varieties of beans, rice and cassava — staple crops that are important to the food security of the rural poor.

Unfortunately, the mealybug is equally capable of traveling via a human vector — and it is now devastating the cassava (aka manioc or yucca) crop on some 200,000 hectares in Thailand, where some 60 percent of global exports (worth $ 1.5 billion) are grown, according to the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), a Colombia - based research nonprofit focused on reducing hunger and poverty via sustainable agriculture.

Increasing demand for corn, wheat, soybeans, sugar, vegetable oil and cassava competes for limited acres of farmland, at least until farmers have had time to plow up more forest and grassland, which means that tightness in one crop market translates to tightness in others.

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.

As part of an initiative launched in Washington DC earlier this month, researchers in 12 countries have started to hunt for varieties of the top five staple crops — rice, wheat, corn, cassava and beans — that might grow better in poor soils, as well as providing added trace nutrients for the people who eat them.

Schaal's interest in agricultural species was spurred when Rob Bertram, a staff member at the U.S. Agency for International Development, asked if her research on plant DNA sequences could help trace the origin of cassava, a starchy root crop that is a large source of food carbohydrates in the tropics.

Increased public - sector involvement in crop development — much of which has been ceded to companies over the past decades as seeds evolved into patentable commodities — will be needed to apply increasingly cheap biotech improvements to subsistence crops like cassava, for example, Baulcombe said.

To improve cassava crops, the IITA partners with the National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI) breeding centers in Nigeria, the National Crops Resources Research Institute (NCRRI) in Uganda, and, most recently, the Department of Research and Development in Tanzcrops, the IITA partners with the National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI) breeding centers in Nigeria, the National Crops Resources Research Institute (NCRRI) in Uganda, and, most recently, the Department of Research and Development in TanzCrops Research Institute (NRCRI) breeding centers in Nigeria, the National Crops Resources Research Institute (NCRRI) in Uganda, and, most recently, the Department of Research and Development in TanzCrops Resources Research Institute (NCRRI) in Uganda, and, most recently, the Department of Research and Development in Tanzania.

«Cassava is the most important food crop in sub-Saharan Africa,» declared Dr. Claude Fauquet of the Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri.

During June and July at BTI, visiting researchers from crop breeding programs in Nigeria, Nairobi, and Uganda have been working closely with researchers in Lukas Mueller's group to discuss ways to improve the development of online resources related to two of Africa's most important staple crops: cassava and banana.

«Cassava is a really important staple crop for about 800 million people in tropical and subtropical regions of the world,» Dr. Lyons said.

The yield of cassava crops is excellent even in marginal soil or in places unsuitable for almost any other plants or crops.

Out of the nine crops, six crops - groundnut, pearl millet, cassava, finger millet, yam and sorghum - are expected to remain stable even after extreme climate change situations in the future.

It will also affect corn, cassava, many of our Brazilian crops.»