Sentences with phrase «growing rice crops»

On the other hand CH4 is produced mostly indirectly, for example, in growing rice crops or in draining out water for peat lands.

Not exact matches

If there is a silver lining, it is that today's high prices should encourage more production, but unlike fast - growing crops like rice, wheat and soybeans, coffee grows on trees that take years to mature.

I remember when if you wanted a gluten free pizza you had to buy a farm, grow the corn, rice, tapioca and potatoes, hope for rain and sun, pray that locusts would ravage elsewhere, harvest the crops, build a mill, mill the flour and only then you could make the pizza base.

Unlike rice and wheat that require many inputs in terms of soil fertility and water, millets grow well in dry regions as rainfed crops.

Amaranth (Chinese Spinach) Artichokes Asparagus Asparagus Pea Beans Beets Bitter Melons and Wax Gourds Broccoli Brussels Sprouts Burdock (Gobo) Cabbage Carrots Cauliflower Chinese (Napa) Cabbage Citron Melon (For candied citron, pies, etc.) Cantaloupes and Melons Cardoon Celery Chervil Chicory Chives Collards Corn and Ornamental Corn Cover Crops Cowpeas Cucumbers Eggplant Endive Fava Beans Finocchio Garland Chrysanthemum Gourds and Decorative Squash Jicama (Mexican Yam) Kale Kohlrabi Leeks Lettuce and Mesclun Loofah (Luffa) Sponges Malabar Spinach Mache (Corn Salad) Micro Greens (Baby Greens) Minutina (Buckshorn Plaintain) Mustard and Other Greens Oats (Hulless Oats for cereal) Okra Onions / Scallions Orach (Mountain Spinach) Ornamental Corn and Grain Pak Choi / Bak Choi Parsley Peas: Early Spring Peanuts Peppers Super Hot Peppers Popcorn Pumpkins Quinoa (Cereal, Superfood) Radicchio Radish Ramps (Wild Leeks) Rhubarb Rice (Can be grown in garden soil) Rutabaga Salsify (Oyster Plant) Saltwort Scorzonea Shallots (From Seed) Sorghum Soybeans Spinach Squash Summer Type and Zucchini Squash Winter Type Squash Japanese Kabocha Type Squash (Fall and Winter Decorations) Strawberry Sugar Beets Swiss Chard Tomatoes Turnip Watermelon

Rice crops with more arsenic content are grown in fields that have been previously sprayed with arsenic - based chemical pesticides.

Golden Rice could likewise co-exist with other crops, including other types of rice and rice grown in other ways such as in organic agricultRice could likewise co-exist with other crops, including other types of rice and rice grown in other ways such as in organic agricultrice and rice grown in other ways such as in organic agricultrice grown in other ways such as in organic agriculture.

Growing a good crop of rice can be challenging.

The Philippine rice crop was also hammered by floods as two back — to — back typhoons hit the country's major rice growing region before the crop could be harvested.

A one - time investment to develop a biofortified crop such as Golden Rice can generate new varieties for farmers to grow for years to come, in many different countries.

This research on Golden Rice will ensure that any approved Golden Rice varieties will grow just like other rice crops, with comparable yields and pest resistance, and with the same environmental impaRice will ensure that any approved Golden Rice varieties will grow just like other rice crops, with comparable yields and pest resistance, and with the same environmental impaRice varieties will grow just like other rice crops, with comparable yields and pest resistance, and with the same environmental imparice crops, with comparable yields and pest resistance, and with the same environmental impacts.

«It's important to incorporate C4 in rice because rice grows in places where other crops such as maize do not grow and because rice is the staple food of more than half the world, including many people who live in poverty.»

Water supply to about 27,000 rice farmers in Central Luzon in the Philippines was cut off due in part to decreasing water levels at Angat Dam, bringing attention again to the need for everyone to save water even for growing rice, the «thirstiest» of all crops.

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.

Since 1966, three consecutive crops of high - yielding rice varieties have been grown annually during most years.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnersrice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science PartnersRice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnersrice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnersrice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science PartnersRice Science Partnership.

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.

It was able to grow between their usual wheat, barley, corn and rice crops.

With this year's crop resulting in massive yields, the rice bran business continues to grow.

As gluten allergies reach a global high caused by the biggest crop grown in the world (wheat) and GMO infestation puts a dent in the usage of the world's second crop, corn, food companies are scrambling to utilize the world's third largest crop: rice.

In recent centuries potatoes have become the world's most important tuber crop and its fourth most important source of food energy (after rice, wheat, and maize): farmers and gardeners grow them worldwide.

Crops like rice, soybean and cotton are normally grown during the June to September monsoon rainy season.

The toxin is produced by a common mold, Aspergillus flavus, that grows on crops from rice and cereals to corn and nuts.

In the U.S. weedy rice is increasingly combatted by growing herbicide resistant crop strains, Olsen says.

Later, comparing samples of multiple species of rice grown in numerous regions around the world, he found arsenic levels almost universally elevated, including in the U.S. Notably, much of the U.S. rice crop is grown in regions of the South where the soil is contaminated by old arsenic - based pesticides, once used by farmers to protect cotton crops from boll weevils.

The information gathered from these rice plants will be used to create drought - resistant corn and crops that will grow in depleted soil, perhaps on marginal land in the United States or Asia.

«Very little research has been done on organic rice, and organic studies on other crops do not apply to rice because — unlike other crops — most of it is grown in flooded fields,» he said.

As part of an initiative launched in Washington DC earlier this month, researchers in 12 countries have started to hunt for varieties of the top five staple crops — rice, wheat, corn, cassava and beans — that might grow better in poor soils, as well as providing added trace nutrients for the people who eat them.

A farming community where people grow rice and cash crops such as vanilla, this tiny town at the outskirts of Marojejy National Park is one of the few remaining places on Earth where light pollution is not a problem.

More than 3 billion people in the world depend on rice as their primary food, and nearly one - fourth of the world's crop is grown in rain - fed lowland plots prone to seasonal and sustained flash floods.

Experts from the UK and Brazil have found the first evidence that ancient South Americans learned how to grow bigger rice crops with larger grains, but this expertise may have been lost after 1492 when the indigenous population was decimated, research shows.

In the rice — nonrice system, however, the destruction of surface soil structure and the development of the hardpan can impose serious liabilities on the establishment and performance of crops grown after rice.

While they still depend on the forest for traditional hunting and gathering, most Amerindians, as American indigenous people are called, grow crops (like bananas, manioc, and rice), use western goods (like metal pots, pans, and utensils), and make regular trips to towns and cities to bring foods and wares to market.

Water supply to about 27,000 rice farmers in Central Luzon in the Philippines was cut off due in part to decreasing water levels at Angat Dam, bringing attention again to the need for everyone to save water even for growing rice, the «thirstiest» of all crops.

Growing dry - season crops after rice on hard - setting soils can pose serious challenges to Cambodian farmers seeking to diversify and intensify with greater efficiency, profitability, and sustainability.

Grasses such as rice, wheat, maize and sorghum are important cereal crops grown in different parts of the world.

Well over half of China's total rice - growing area of some 15 million hectares is planted with rice hybrids, making the country by far the world's largest producer of the crop.

That is partially due to rice being one of the major crops that is grown in conditions flooded with water, which enables it to more easily absorb the arsenic through its roots and store it inside.

Soy protein is a known allergen and the largest genetically - modified crop in the world, while rice contains less utilizable protein per serving and, unless it is grown and processed in the United States (most of its comes from China), it is usually contaminated with toxic heavy metals such as lead and cadmium.

Rice crops with more arsenic content are grown in fields that have been previously sprayed with arsenic - based chemical pesticides.

Meharg also suggested that farmers should grow rice in nonflooded conditions, so that the crop will not take up so much arsenic.

The combination of tropical climate, rain and fertile volcanic soil makes Bali an ideal place for crop cultivation; including the growing of rice, coconut, cloves and coffee.

They make their living farming the surrounding terraced rice fields and growing vegetable crops.

And India has leased several hundred thousand acres there to grow corn, rice and other crops.

As with other high yield crops like rice, meant to feed large groups of people on the cheap, domesticated crops are chosen to be grown in mass often leaving the crop's biodiversity in jeopardy.

For example, they discovered a beautiful species of purple rice and took care to ensure to test and preserve the crop by growing a bit of the rice in a small corner of field in order to taste test and see how it grew.

Given advances in the rate of DNA sequencing, the full genetic code of key crops grown in the two regions could be built very quickly, and the identities and function of their genes could be determined by relying on similarities to the existing Arabidopsis, rice, and sorghum sequences and the emerging maize sequence.

A secure supply of thousands of varieties of keystone crops like rice and wheat will be ever more important, experts say, as populations grow, climate changes, and people keep moving species around the global, both intentionally and accidentally.

Rice has around 10 to 20 times more arsenic than other cereal crops because it is grown in flooded fields which make it much easier for arsenic to leave the soil and enter the rice, notes an article by the BBC program Trust Me I'm a DocRice has around 10 to 20 times more arsenic than other cereal crops because it is grown in flooded fields which make it much easier for arsenic to leave the soil and enter the rice, notes an article by the BBC program Trust Me I'm a Docrice, notes an article by the BBC program Trust Me I'm a Doctor.

Rice (a C3 crop) and barnyard grass (Echinochloa crusgalli L.)(a C4 weed) were grown in a 1:1 mixture in a paddy field in ambient condition and with supplemented free air carbon dioxide enrichment (FACE, CO2concentration + 200 μmol mol − 1), in order to evaluate the impact of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide on nutrient competition between rice crop and wRice (a C3 crop) and barnyard grass (Echinochloa crusgalli L.)(a C4 weed) were grown in a 1:1 mixture in a paddy field in ambient condition and with supplemented free air carbon dioxide enrichment (FACE, CO2concentration + 200 μmol mol − 1), in order to evaluate the impact of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide on nutrient competition between rice crop and wrice crop and weed.