Sentences with phrase «grow crops which»

All the cocoa farmers, especially in Ghana, who labor to grow a crop which many of us take for granted.

If one is using the best gardening practices, then growing crops which need nitrogen is not dissipating anything.

Not exact matches

Anderson's three - greenhouse wasabi farm is the most recent to begin growing crops for Pacific Coast Wasabi (PCW), which developed the method for producing wasabi in greenhouses — but it's already proving to be the most successful.

Containing GM crops is also a near impossible task, and there is no telling what could happen if they escape the commercial fields on which they're grown.

In addition to Eatsa, Friedberg is pushing quinoa through a company he acquired called Northern Quinoa Production Corp., which contracts with local farmers in Canada to grow the crop with its proprietary seed.

The emerging middle classes in China and India are consuming more meat, which requires more crops to be grown for animal feed.

The team uses a technique called hydroponic farming, in which crops grow under LEDs in nutrient - rich water.

«It will start off building just the most elementary infrastructure, just a base to create some propellant, a power station, blast domes in which to grow crops — all of the sort of fundamentals without which you can not survive,» he said at the South by Southwest festival in March.

And with Tower Garden — which can grow more than 150 different crops — chefs have the freedom and advantage to grow uncommon plant varieties that give their dishes a unique flair.

The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) expects summer crop production to grow by 13 per cent in 2004/05, which should support cereals exports in coming quarters.

A combination of climate change (which has significantly shortened the cycles of drought), massive migration to the cities and market pressures to grow cash crops that require huge amounts of water have depleted India's already taxed water supply for rural areas.

God himself will provide the climate in which this crop will grow — the future historical situation of the Church which he, as Lord of history, will bring about.

Generally speaking, the wild relatives of crops harbor high levels of genetic diversity, which is very advantageous in the wild, where the plants are subject to ever - changing growing conditions.

A very easy to grow chili pepper which produces an insanely huge crop on a compact plant!

This decline in nutritional value is thought to be associated with changes in the soil in which crops are grown.

It's funny because you always hear about how bad GMO soy, corn and wheat are for us (which they are) but those crops are mainly grown to feed the animals.

In addition to their abundant organic crops, Hill Top Farms also offers a tour of the 30 acre farm which consists of a trip through the horse barn where participants get a up close, hands on education about equine care including feeding and grooming one or more of the nine resident horses, feeding the chickens and petting the goats and a hayride out to the fields where you get to see and taste organic vegetables in production and learn about how things grow and why organics is important.

Researchers David Crowder and John Reganold from Washington State University conducted a meta - analysis of 44 studies on organic agriculture, which included 55 crops grown in 14 countries across five continents.

We control how a crop grows by applying water as needed, which is an important factor in offering the right product, of the best size, at the right time.»

The company also began selling dry fertilizer as a service to assist farmers in growing better crops, which remains a strong part of its business today.

Early on they grew and sold oats — which were purchased by an organic farmer in the region — and green manure crops.

Specifically, she is working on finding the potential alternative cheap sources of sanitizers for prevention of microbial growth tomato, which is the first most grown vegetable crop in Malawi.

Approximately 1.2 million hectares are given over to fodder crops to feed cattle, according to al - Zayat, which he says «limits the country's ability to grow badly needed wheat».

Last year I planted shiso in our little greenhouse and the plant grew quite large and went to seed, which led to this year's bumper crop of baby shiso plants growing everywhere.

And it means selecting crop foods which are nutrient dense, grown with regenerative practices that are natural, and chemical - free.

Market expectations are in excess of $ 10 million for Paradise Rise, which includes 12,000 sheep, all growing crops, and plant and equipment, with Colliers International the appointed agents.

The variability of contexts in which agroforestry crops are grown around the world is something the latest draft to SAN standard is not ignoring, and the standard proposal is focused on achieving positive impacts also at the landscapes level, not just farm level.

While some heavily chemically - farmed soils will contain pesticide hot spots well into the future (if not forever) other soils still have low levels that can safely grow crops like rice which are known to extract arsenic.

The farm grows nearly 20 varieties of organic crops, including red wheat, oats, millet, sunflower seeds and hemp seeds, many of which are used in One Degree breads, flour and cereals.

The lab - grown meat — which the company calls «clean meat» — is developed from self - reproducing cells taken from a chicken, with the purpose of creating a product that omnivores can't distinguish from the real thing, but with a fraction of the considerable downsides of meat production, including environmental destruction and using agricultural land to grow animal feed rather than crops for human consumption.

Unlike arabica coffee, which can (and is, in much of Mexico) grown as an agroforestry crop under mixed shade, robusta is grown in the sun and will require the clearing of valuable lowland forests, no doubt substantial amounts of fertilizer and pesticides, and cause collateral environmental damage.

In an interview, Philip Shull, agricultural counselor at the US Embassy in Manila said that the Philippines is a huge market which is growing every year and that the US government is concerned about misunderstanding GM crops and products.

The result is down from the $ 4.9 million delivered in the previous corresponding period, but this was due to a longer growing season in which the 2016 winter crop harvest was extended into January this year resulting in some of the profit being held over until the second half of the financial year.

This lineup is being supplemented with new, developing programs that include Good Food Is Good Medicine, which aims to take the collective knowledge of FamilyFarmed, medical experts, nutritionists, chefs, farmers and others about the powerful connections between food and health, and make that information more readily available to members of the general public; and the Organic Grain Promotion Initiative, which seeks to advance the fast - growing interest in better, more sustainably produced, heirloom grains among retailers, consumers, bakers, distilleries, breweries and others while providing farmers with high - value - crop alternatives to the commodity farming system.

The first points have been disproved over the past two decades, which is why food and environment safety agencies around the world have declared them as safe as conventionally grown crops.

Most of the United States» wild rice crop is grown in and around Minnesota, which may have something to do with the wild rice soup being on special at a restaurant on the Minnesota border.

Our has never grown those long, thick stalks, but I experimented last fall (which comes early here in Minnesota) by making sort of a celery broth after the crop froze in the garden, then froze the broth in ice cube trays.

For crops that naturally have higher levels of microorganisms (e.g. radishes, which grow in contact with water and nutrients), a space - rated produce sanitation method must be developed and tested.

Weevils have attacked the plants in the past, damaging the local crop, but the biggest threats to supply are the lack of large - scale producers (most locals just grow a few plants for their own use) and hurricanes, which dump heavy rains and pack a punch with fierce winds that destroy the fragile plants.

The later region grows the American jalapeños, which are processed and exported into the U.S. Approximately 60 % of the Mexican jalapeño crop used for processing, 20 % for fresh consumption, and 20 % in production of chipotle chiles, smoked jalapeños.

They use a systematic seed - growing process, which begins with crop improvement associations in each state.

Even if the northern New Mexico crops will never feed the world — which, given the landrace's limited growing areas, they never will — Madison hopes as people become aware of the chile it will help northern New Mexico's other cultural and environmental issues.

When a gardener anticipates growing vegetable crops during the fall or winter, it would be wise to contact the local agricultural representative in an effort to find out which types of vegetables grow best at specific times of...

Which I actually think is fabulous, as it's encouraging organic farming and reduced pesticide usage worldwide, particularly in developing countries, showing them that there is a distinct financial advantage in not spraying the crops they grow.

Cloth diapers are most commonly made of cotton, which is generally considered an environmentally wasteful crop to grow.

Caring for the environment — Ontario farmers are committed to growing crops and raising livestock in an environmentally sustainable manner which leaves our farms in better shape for generations to come.

Do we really want to license GM crops which nobody wants at the expense of organic crops that people do want and where the market is growing fast.

Parker, convicted in December of assaulting a Post photographer, last week proposed a green «Thruway to Fuelway» initiative under which bio-fuel crops such as «palm oil, jatropha and mahua» would be grown along the now - snow - lined Thruway's median strips.

Through the 20th century, farming in the region shifted dramatically away from growing fruits and vegetables and towards producing commodity crops, which are primarily used in processed foods and for animal feed.

In the 2016 budget, it came out that the crop sub-sector, which employs most of the nearly five million farmers, shrunk by 1.7 percent, while the entire sector grew by 0.04 percent.