Sentences with phrase «double grain yields»

This simple, locally adapted technology, developed by scientists at the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry in Nairobi, has enabled farmers to double their grain yields within a matter of years as soil fertility builds.

The new African Green Revolution would initially subsidize peasant farmers» access to high - yield technologies and thereby at least double grain yields.

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Between 1950 and 1973 the world's farmers doubled the grain harvest, nearly all of it from raising yields.

Elsewhere, Western Europe, with its mild winters and high - yielding winter wheat, might also be able to double crop more with a summer grain, such as corn, or with a winter oilseed crop.