Sentences with phrase «decreased grain production»

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Despite rainfall decreasing by about 7 inches annually in the grain belt located in Western Australia since the 1970s, wheat production has increased, and Eckard said that's because farmers have employed adaptations such as planting species with shorter growing seasons, dry sowing seeds and tilling fields less often.

Although she had done some research with synthetic silicon fertilizers that showed promise for decreasing arsenic in the grains, Seyfferth said it wasn't until she went to Cambodia and saw the vastness of rice paddies and how much rice residue is being generated from the production of rice globally that she really wanted to explore using some of those materials as silica sources.

Though Russia is ranked 115 out of 163 nations surveyed and classified as a medium - risk country, the recent heatwave's impact on grain production and the nation's ban on grain exports, combined with a 25 % decrease in Canadian grain production in June, due to flooding, is causing fluctuations in commodity prices, in turn increasing food insecurity in the most vulnerable nations.