Sentences with phrase «higher value crops»

Vertical farming could have a place for high value crops in cities, but would not be a solution to the additional food projected to be needed.»

Some of these products include foliar applied fertilizers for high value crops and pharmaceutical grade chelates used in mineral supplements and food for humans.

A shift in cultivation areas of high value crops, such as grapes for wine, may also occur.

Not exact matches

«Successful urban growers usually find a high value niche crops to keep business afloat, or use a cooperative model,» said McGrane, pointing out the City Commons program both farms participate in.

High - value crops such as vegetables, citrus fruits, grapes and apricots can by grown in the Middle East if 5,000 to 8,000 cubic meters of water (about 1.7 million gallons) per hectare (2.47 acres) are provided each year.

Since the value of the crops per hectare would be about $ 10,000, the present cost of about $ 5,000 for desalinated water per hectare is too high.

According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), quinoa is a crop with high nutritive value and an impressive biodiversity.

Higher value uses for crop residue — moving away from fertiliser and towards fodder, biofuels, bio-oils and paper production.

Agriculture Minister Cao Duc Phat and Vice Minister Le Quoc Doanh convened a multi-stakeholder effort to refine key elements of the strategy, which includes developing rice varieties with high export value, adopting advanced crop management techniques, and more intensive use of machines and other technologies in rice farming.

In contemporary times, this crop has become highly appreciated for its nutritional value, as its protein content is very high (12 % — 18 %).

His research focus is postharvest handling practices of high value horticultural crops along the value chains in Fiji, under the guidance of Professor Steven Underhill, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.

Omega - 3 canola will provide new opportunities for improving human nutrition, reducing pressure on fishery resources worldwide, and will provide Australian grain growers with new, high - value crops.

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.

«Organic rice has a higher dollar value than conventional, but it is still a commodity crop and will fetch a lower price than other specialty crops,» says Greg.

This enables more frequent harvests of high - value crops like vegetables rather than grains.

Biologists at the University of California San Diego have developed a method of manipulating the genes of an agricultural pest that has invaded much of the United States and caused millions of dollars in damage to high - value berry and other fruit crops.

Adding to the severity of the groundwater depletion, the 2012 - 2016 drought coincided with Central Valley farmers transitioning from row crops to more high - value, thirsty crops like almonds, pistachios and walnuts, which are grown in groves.

«So you have to raise really high - value crops and look for niche markets.»

«There is great interest in (LEDs) potential to influence the phytochemical and flavor profile of various high - value crops,» the authors said.

Researchers at private agricultural firms tend to focus on creating better varieties of widely - grown, high - value crops, such as wheat and corn.

Rewilding would allow crop plants not only to better utilize available resources in the environment and have higher nutritional value, but also to better resist diseases, pests, and weeds,» says Palmgren.

Further understanding how land formation techniques (leveling, grading, and raised - bed construction) for improved water and nutrient management and efficiencies affect soil structure and the behavior of nutrient and water dynamics is required to develop refined and integrated management practices and realize the potential of high - value non-rice crops.

Agriculture Minister Cao Duc Phat and Vice Minister Le Quoc Doanh convened a multi-stakeholder effort to refine key elements of the strategy, which includes developing rice varieties with high export value, adopting advanced crop management techniques, and more intensive use of machines and other technologies in rice farming.

Since the urban market is year - round, farmers are incentivized to grow crops in multiple seasons and to grow higher - value products.

Quinoa has been considered as a crop for NASA's Controlled Ecological Life Support System due to its high protein values and unique composition of amino acids.

In contemporary times this crop has come to be highly appreciated for its nutritional value, and the United Nations has classified it as a super crop for its very high protein content (12 % — 18 %).

FThe global industrial food system relies on crops that have been bred primarily for higher yield and ease of transport, while farmers involved in local food systems often place a higher value on plant varietals that are more nutritious by virtue of their variety (i.e., not bred for yield alone) or by their method of production.

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Kenny Nicholl, director of higher education at Canvas, said: «It's clear that the current crop of sixth formers value teaching and learning that adapts to their needs.

The company produces salt (primarily used by cities for deicing roads but has many consumer and industrial uses as well), specialty potash (a premium fertilizer that improves the quality, yield, and shelf life of high - value fruit, vegetable, and tree nut crops), micronutrients (essential minerals that maximize plant yields), and magnesium chloride (used in numerous ways including roadway deicing, dust control, and as plant nutrients for wheat crops).

While CMP's SOP business will be sensitive to broader trends in agricultural markets, its barriers to entry, high value provided to growers of specialty crops, and solid pricing power make the business much less volatile and more profitable than traditional potash fertilizer (which, unlike SOP, includes chloride).

SOP is also primarily used on high - value or chloride - sensitive crops such as citrus fruits, grapes, almonds, and tobacco.

The Urban Farmer is a comprehensive, hands - on, practical manual to help you learn the techniques and business strategies you need to make a good living growing high - yield, high - value crops right in your own backyard (or someone else's).

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Many of the affordability breakthroughs are based on other parts of the system - the controller, the inverter, the motor, the pump, the water conveyance from the well to the crop, the water application system, the selection of high value diversified crops to be grown, and optimization of farmer production methods and access to market.

doesn't that make for more crop failures, more expensive food, a shift to higher value cash crops (which may have lower food value or feed fewer but wealthier people), and a shift of agricultural areas away from the equator, resulting in costly changes in farm viability and land use?

There's not much farmers can do to protect themselves from this type of damage in the short term, other than perhaps setting up warming systems for high - value crops.

Several trends are converging to reduce the grain area, including the loss of irrigation water, desert expansion, the conversion of cropland to nonfarm uses, the shift to higher - value crops, and a decline in double - cropping due to the loss of farm labor in the more prosperous coastal provinces.

Which forms the basis for the IPCC claim of high climate sensitivity (mean value of 3.2 C), resulting in significant global warming (up to 6.4 C warming by 2100), «extreme high sea levels», increased «heat waves», increased «heavy rains» and floods, increased «droughts», increased «intense tropical cyclones» — which, in turn, lead to crop failures, disappearance of glaciers now supplying drinking water to millions, increased vector borne diseases, etc. (for short, potentially catastrophic AGW — or «CAGW»).

In the geological past, its level has been ten times or more higher than its present value; in fact, our major food crops developed when CO2 levels were about five times higher.

Because it is labor - intensive, it is used primarily to produce high - value vegetable crops or in orchards.

Some high - value crops, like corn and soybeans, that can mainly be grown in the

Some high - value crops, like corn and soybeans, that can mainly be grown in the U.S., will be grown more commonly in Canada, Mendelsohn says.

· As a result there is an expected change in food prices with high crop yield causing a decline in the value of those crops.

According to «Hemp as an Agricultural Commodity,» a 2005 Congressional Research Service (CRS) report, «farmers in regions of the country that are highly dependent on a single crop, such as tobacco or wheat, have shown interest in hemp's potential as a high - value alternative crop...» (Read the report here.)

The approach was quite organic, although the intent was to produce crops with the highest nutritional value.

Phoenix, Arizona About Blog The Urban Farmer is a comprehensive, hands - on, practical manual to help you learn the techniques and business strategies you need to make a good living growing high - yield, high - value crops right in your own backyard (or someone else's).

The Urban Farmer is a comprehensive, hands - on, practical manual to help you learn the techniques and business strategies you need to make a good living growing high - yield, high - value crops right in your own backyard (or someone else's).

The Urban Farmer is a comprehensive, hands - on, practical manual to help you learn the techniques and business strategies you need to make a good living growing high - yield, high - value crops right in your own backyard (or someone else's).