Sentences with phrase «destroyed wheat crops»

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The group organised a «mass action» by campaigners to march on the trial site in Harpenden, Herts., on 27th May with the intention of destroying the GM wheat crops.

A wheat strain that let its guard down may have paved the way for a crop - destroying fungus to infect the species.

Each year, fungal infections destroy at least 125 million tons of the world's five most important crops - rice, wheat, maize, soybeans and potatoes - a quantity that could feed 600 million people.

More than 1 billion people are infected with disease - causing species worldwide, while other strains flourish in wheat, corn, and other crops, where they destroy food harvests.

In the film, set on an Earth of the near future, the blight is sweeping across the world, and has already destroyed wheat and okra as a crop.

Likewise, Russia's 2010 heatwave increased the mortality rate by 56,000, and helped spawn massive wildfires destroying one - fifth of the country's globally - important wheat crop.