Sentences with phrase «increase crop»

Twice a year, Pitt takes teams of up to 20 volunteers to provide water filters, train midwives and teach farmers how to increase their crop yields.

On the job you will be expected to manage overall grow operations and implement strategies to increase crop yields and enhance product quality.

Global warming, for example, is expected to increase crop yields in temperate northern regions, where the rich, industrial countries are located, while harming agriculture in the lower, warmer latitudes where most poor nations are.

If you've listened recently to public radio, you may have heard the following promotional announcement on Marketplace, produced by American Public Media: «Marketplace is supported by Monsanto, committed to sustainable agriculture; creating hybrid and biotech seeds designed to increase crop yields and conserve natural resources.»

If the stated goal of introduction Bt Brinjal is because it is more resistant to pests and will increase crop yields, surely in the thousands of currently cultivated varieties there is a solution which won't just lead to more profit and crop control by Monsanto and will actually benefit the farmers cultivating it, rather than just requiring them to buy into the Corporation.

Of course there was the idea floated that more Co2 in the air will increase crop output, but studies have already shown that increased Co2 increases biomass, but does not increase produce output.

Humberto Ríos Labrada, a scientist and biodiversity researcher, worked with farmers to increase crop diversity and develop low - input agricultural systems, encouraging Cuba's shift from agricultural chemical dependence toward sustainability.

What is known in terms consequences of rising global CO2 levels is a significant increase crop yield and natural vegetation growth from elevated levels of CO2.

Agricultural innovations, particularly around genetically engineered crops, are needed to continue to increase crop productivity to avoid falling yields, even in high temperature environments and instances of flooding.

The bonus is that we get more CO2 which is needed to increase crop yields to feed the growing world population.

First of all, and rather surprisingly, McKenzie et al. report that the elevated CO2 environment did not increase crop biomass, nor did it impact herbivore abundance.

This warming is predicted to increase some crop yields in northern countries, but also bring more floods and droughts - particularly in poor nations.

In the PNAS publication the Americans specifically name increased nitrogen fertilisation as an important option to increase crop yield per hectare and thereby decrease net GHG intensity.

5.2) Increasing CO2 and H2O increase crop production With a growing population, we need all possible additional food production.

-- Higher CO2 concentrations will increase crop yields significantly — Warmer temperatures will increase growing season, plus add to overall arable surface area

• The manufacture and marketing of environmentally friendly agricultural products and technologies that enhance plant growth and increase crop yields.

It began a program called Harita (Horn of Africa Risk Transfer for Adaptation) in Tigray that included insurance as part of a larger climate change - adjustment program, which includes access to credit, help with savings and programs to increase crop yields.

The incredible artificial leaf that can turn sunlight into fuel can now also increase crop yields.

-- Farmer field schools could help increase crop yields by 12 % leading to sustainable increases in food production

Genetic modification and selective breeding to increase crop yields over the years has dramatically changed the genetics and chemical composition of wheat.

The main purposes stated by these companies are to create plants that contain insecticides so they have more tolerance to pests, increase crop yield, and need less water.

For example, the DNA of fungus, mold, bacteria, viruses, fish, humans, and jellyfish have been injected into corn, potatoes, and strawberries in an effort to increase crop yields.

The DNA of fungus, mold, bacteria, viruses, fish, humans, and jellyfish have been injected into corn, potatoes, and strawberries in an effort to increase crop yields.

Still, drones do offer the potential to increase crop yields, Paul says.

Scientists are modifying photosynthesis to dramatically increase crop yields and reduce global food shortages.

It can help plants take up nutrients, improve soil drainage and increase crop yields.

These biodegradable particles could be the basis for reduced risk conventional pesticide products that have the potential to reduce the amount of chemicals used in plant protection by as much as 90 percent, save farmers more than 25 percent on pest - control initiatives and, in a world facing looming food shortages, help increase crop yields for more and better food.

Scientifically, his research can help breeders, geneticists, agronomists and irrigation engineers develop better varieties and management strategies to increase crop yield and water - use efficiency, his nomination stated.

If such an attempt were to be proven entirely successful, then crops with the equivalent bacterial photosynthesis ability would cut fertilizer needs and increase crop production by 35 and 60 percent.

However, more atmospheric CO2 is predicted to increase crop biomass and subsequent yields, and reduce water use by allowing plant stomates to open over shorter periods, thus assimilating the same amount of atmospheric CO2 while conserving moisture (Cutforth et al. 2007).

Abstract Higher transpiration efficiency (TE) has been proposed as a mechanism to increase crop yields in dry environments where water availability usually limits yield.

NOx emissions can both increase crop growth and diminish it because NOx gases help catalyze the formation of ground - level ozone and this gas is toxic to plant life.

The advance, reported here this week at a meeting of the American Chemical Society, could help farmers in the poorest parts of the world increase their crop yields and combat chronic malnutrition.

While modern research has shown this does increase crop yields, unless the faeces are composted for many months before being added to the fields, it can result in the spread of parasite eggs that can survive in the grown plants.

His current research seeks to document how people on either side of the controversy collect and use evidence about the claim that GMOs increase crop yields.

The team has thus initiated a collaboration with Syngenta AG to find ways to increase crop yield by engineering sugar transport processes, which despite their importance are only poorly understood at present.

But some plants can capture more photons because of energy - efficient genes, which has led scientists to seek ways of inserting those genes into food crops to increase crop yields exponentially.

The researchers estimate that cutting those 14 together could avoid between 700,000 and 4.7 million premature deaths (largely from smoky, unhealthy air) and increase crop yields by between 30 million and 135 million metric tons (due to concomitant reductions in ground - level ozone, otherwise known as smog, which forms from fugitive methane and blights crops in Brazil, China, India, the U.S. and elsewhere).

One common way for farmers to increase crop yields is to increase the density of their plantings.

The team at the John Innes Centre have been working on way to increase crop productivity and reduce our vulnerability to fluctuations in climate.

Farmers eager to increase their crop yields turned to commercial beekeepers, who offered up massive wooden hives stocked with queen bees genetically selected to produce colonies of good pollinators.

In February, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in St. Louis, he captivated the crowd with early results from a project in Africa that uses low - cost fertilizers and improved farming techniques to increase crop yields several times over.

On top of this, climate changes are predicted to increase use of almost all of these chemicals to prevent disease and skin damage and to increase crop demand.

A new study, however, shows it's possible to increase the number of soybean root nodules — and the bacteria that live there — to increase crop yields.

Lysenko had risen to power based on fabricated claims that freezing seeds in water could increase crop yields.

The rate of this reaction limits the growth rate of many of our crops, and many scientists think that accelerating this reaction would increase crop yields.

Researchers at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid have obtained biochar using manure waste, a new material that can improve soil properties and increase crop yields.

How can we increase crop yields to feed the world's growing population?

Weeds increase crop water requirements, labor needs, and disease issues.

«We are the first business in the world to have launched an SMS platform that enables farmers to access tailored information sourced sustainably — and with the potential to scale — from within the farming community itself, so that they can increase resilience to climate change, increase crop yield and improve their livelihoods whether or not they are online.»