Sentences with phrase «grain production»

In recent years we have witnessed extraordinary and extreme weather events that have impacted grain production in key agricultural areas.

It is only within the last 60 years or so that rising yields have replaced area expansion as the principal source of growth in world grain production.

Feed grains have risen from around 30 percent of total global grain production to around 40 percent today.

But in its final year, population increased at twice the rate of grain production.

The savings in water use, land degradation and feed grain production also have translated to better quality of life for many of the 8.5 billion humans now living on our planet.

During the 1950s and 1960s, grain production exceeded population growth on every continent, diets improved almost everywhere.

Per capita grain production varied from region to region.

Corn dominates world grain production at about 900 million tons, followed by rice and wheat at about 700 million each.

Already the country is suffering from decreased grain production and severe water shortages.

Among other things, this means that the surplus world grain production capacity and cheap food of the last half - century may soon be history.

Initially this resulted in an impressive expansion in Soviet grain production, but the success was short - lived as a dust bowl developed there as well.

As a result, world grain production has fallen short of consumption in seven of the last eight years, dropping world grain stocks to their lowest level in 34 years.

note 1; water use for grain production from FAO, Crops and Drops (Rome: 2002), p. 17.

Farmers are tipped to harvest a record winter crop as growers will increase grain production for the first time in nearly a decade.

There is an increasing demand for organic product and grain growers are struggling to keep up — especially with the chief organic grain production region of Queensland being more than 80 % drought declared for 2015.

Commonwealth forecaster ABARES released figures today showing grain production fell 36 per cent to 37.8 million tonnes in 2017 - 18.

Both of these phenotypes provide avenues for enhanced grain production in cereal crops.

But other, far larger, grain producers such as India and China are facing irrigation water losses and could face grain production declines.

The eastern part of the state is known as the Grain Belt, one of the major grain production areas in the central U.S..

USAID estimates that the country's current annual grain production of 2 million metric tons is less than half of what is required to meet minimum nutritional needs.

TRUTH: Properly carried out through managed grazing, animal husbandry builds soil fertility and restores deficiencies created through grain production.

But how you do work on the Romans is to understand leather, is to understand grain production, is to understand what clay does to make the tiles rather than colouring in a two - dimensional worksheet which has no value really.

Maintaining regional grain production level and recovering local groundwater table by cropping system adaptation across the North China Plain.

Through irrigation, fertiliser, pesticides, and plant breeding, the Green Revolution increased world grain production by an astonishing 250 per cent between 1950 and 1984, raising the calorie intake of the world's poorest people and averting severe famines.

By strongly supporting grain production with generous subsidies and essentially ignoring soybean production, China increased its grain harvest rapidly while its soybean harvest languished.

There was an enormous growth in grain production from croplands between 1950 and 1984.

By 1985 the Food and Agriculture Organization predicts an 85 million ton gap between grain production and world need.

Following a season of higher - than - expected grain production in the Prairies, farmers are now faced with the most severe backlog in years, with many deliveries for wheat, oats, barley and other products lagging months behind schedule.

... Nicaragua's early progress in curbing imports, raising grain production, and other reform and austerity measures were undermined badly by new needs for foreign borrowing imposed by the burgeoning defense burden....

Meanwhile, the heat waves associated with global climate change are suppressing grain production in one region after another — this year Europe was especially hard hit.

In recent years, the environmental statistician Lester Brown has been almost alone in his attempts to warn us that grain production appears to be nearing a crisis point.

Rachel Vann delivered a presentation on the control of weeds in organic grain production throughout North Carolina.

Swelling global grain production pushed wheat prices to decade lows this year and left many east coast growers uncompetitive against Russian and Ukraine producers, who benefited from more efficient supply chains and lower freight costs.

Total Russian grain production hit a record 119m tonnes.

Crop production has not slowed: total world grain production last year was the third highest in history.

The green revolution that made grain production soar gave humanity some breathing space, but the continuing rise in population and demand for meat production is exhausting that buffer.

A rigid rice plant allows sunlight to reach leaves on even the lowest parts of the plant, improving photosynthesis and therefore grain production; it also allows plants to be placed in closer proximity without interfering with each other's growth.

Temperatures of 95 degrees Fahrenheit baked Longtan village in north China for over a month, causing leaf yellowing and damaging grain production.

Among other crops, the Heilongjiang province is the principal corn - growing region and accounts for over 29 % of total Chinese corn grain production (27).

A simple genetic modification can triple grain production in sorghum, a drought - tolerant plant that is an important source of food and animal feed...

This is compounded by people who are cutting down the Amazaon rain forest to increase grain production since it has now been turned into a cash crop.

Global Grain Production = 0 at 285 ppm atmospheric CO2, if the relationship remains linear to the lowest levels of atmospheric CO2.