Sentences with phrase «cultivated organic soils»

Drained and cultivated organic soils continue to oxidize, subside and emit an estimated 1.5 to 2 million metric tons of CO2 - equivalent annually — equal to annual emissions from over 300,000 passenger vehicles.

Drained and cultivated organic soils in the delta continue to oxidize, subside and emit an estimated one to two million metric tons of CO2 - equivalent annually — equal to annual emissions from over 300,000 passenger vehicles.

It also has one new sub-category: Changes in mineral soil carbon stocks, which allows for the inclusion of three potential sources of CO2 emissions from agricultural soils (net changes in organic carbon stocks of mineral soil associated with changes in land use and management, emissions from cultivated organic soils and emissions from liming of agricultural soils).

Not exact matches

Grown in the fertile soil and mild, Mediterranean climate of Chile, our blueberries are cultivated with the utmost care and strict adherence to organic standards.

Since organic farms are mostly mixed farms, integrating animal husbandry with crop production, using vast and diverse rotations, intercrops and green cover crops, and maintaining soil fertility by cultivating nitrogen fixing legumes, they display a higher diversity of domesticated species than conventional farms.

Additionally, organic farming practices reduce the risk of erosion by avoiding practices such as tilling, which ploughs and cultivates the soil by tearing, turning and circulating it.

The cacao source of this product (Crillo cacao beans) is cultivated in the fertile, organic soils of the mountains in Peru.

The kit also includes all the supplies you need — fast - germinating seeds, growing jar, organic soil, and organic fertilizer spikes — to cultivate your own peppers, green thumbs or not.

Furthermore, the team found that land that had been cultivated using conservation tillage since the 1980s had been able to recover more than a fourth of the soil organic carbon it had lost.

Living carbon: organic, flowing in biological cycles, providing food, healthy forests and fertile soil; something to cultivate and grow

Another paper, by researchers in the UK, shows that soil in allotments — the small patches in towns and cities that people cultivate by hand — contains a third more organic carbon than agricultural soil and 25 % more nitrogen.

ScienceDaily reports that, «Directly applying natural organic absorbents to cultivated soil not only helps to stop the pesticides leaching away and thus reduce their use, but also helps to improve soil fertility.»

When it comes to caring for their soils, protecting their watersheds, saving heirloom seeds and cultivating the Earth with love and precision, many of the world's small organic farmers could be compared to Da Vinci or Michelangelo.