Sentences with phrase «decrease rice yield»

Rising temperatures were found to have only small effects on CH4 emissions, but because they decrease rice yield, they also increase the amount of CH4 emitted per kilogram of rice.

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There is actually an estimate that for major crops like wheat, rice and maize, that every degree Celsius rise in temperature above current temperatures could potentially decrease crop yields by between 3 - 7 % due to thermal stress.

A team of researchers at the University of Delaware has found that incorporating rice husk to soil can decrease toxic inorganic arsenic levels in rice grain by 25 to 50 percent without negatively affecting yield.

«We need high - yielding varieties to address rising population and decreasing land area planted to rice,» he said.

Research Institute in the Philippines suggest that rice yields are closely linked to mean minimum temperatures during the dry season; for every 1 C increase in the minimum temperature, rice yields decrease by 10 % (24).

«All aspects of food security are potentially affected by climate change including food access, utilisation of land, and price stability,» said Revi, adding that studies showed wheat and rice yields were decreasing due to climatic changes.

New research published in Nature Climate Change shows that as the world warms it both increases the methane emissions from rice paddies, and decreases the crop yield of rice (something which TreeHugger has previously covered).