Sentences with phrase «fertilizer use efficiency»

«Given the large footprint of agriculture in Southern Asia, improved fertilizer use efficiency, rice management and animal diets could substantially reduce global agricultural N2O and CH4 emissions.»

Urease inhibitors may be effective in increasing fertilizer use efficiency especially where broadcast application is required, Grant (1998).

There is an extensive literature on the improvement in N fertilizer use efficiency achieved by deep banding in zero tillage systems, but no studies on N2O emissions.

Not exact matches

Conduct field experiments with NARS to determine agronomic N - use efficiency under SSNM and farmers» N fertilizer practice in farmers» field at key sites

If their efficiency could be transferred to crops, we could grow more food in less time using less water and less nitrogen fertilizer.

We haven't developed a new fertilizer in the last 40 years, so we need to increase the efficiency of our use of the current fertilizers.

«I hope the work I've done with my colleagues brings a better understanding of how living organisms use energy, leading to reduced fertilizer use or increased efficiency in our use of energy,» Peters said.

They believed that applications in western Canada were less likely, given the relatively good efficiency of nitrogen fertilizer use in this region (by such techniques as banding).

Concerted efforts to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus pollution from industry, improve the efficiency of their use in agriculture, and enhance their availability for use in fertilizer in food - insecure regions would have multiple benefits, including a reduction of climate risks.

In a separate phone call, Don Rennie reported to me that he believed that N2O emissions from banded fertilizer in zero till would be low, in line with the higher N use efficiency of such placement.

Better efficiencies have been achieved in multiple ways, ranging from the use of precision agriculture technology to optimally timed fertilizer additions and crop demand, to comparatively low - tech solutions such as the use of cover crops that reduce nutrient losses.

Corn is among the most intensive uses of fertilizer and represents a significant opportunity for nitrogen use efficiencies that could reduce GHG emissions while maintaining or improving yields.

Corn is among the most intensive uses of fertilizer, both per acre and in total use, and represents a significant opportunity for nitrogen use efficiencies that could reduce emissions as well as farmers» input costs while maintaining yields.

Mosier et al. (1996) list a number of practices that could be implemented to improve fertilizer and manure N use efficiencies to help reduce N2O emissions from agriculture.