Sentences with phrase «increased yield of crops»

Some might even be beneficial, such as the increased yield of crops that do better with warmer temperatures and more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Professor Poppy, an ecologist at the University, adds: «Honeybee pollination can significantly increase the yield of crops and they are vital to the world's economy — # 430 million a year to the UK alone.

In the next few decades, longer growing seasons and rising carbon dioxide levels will increase yields of some crops, though those benefits will be progressively offset by extreme weather events.

Not exact matches

Even resistant - to - change farmers are taking control: No longer at the mercy of the natural elements, they're harnessing big data to maximize crop yields and increase productivity.

In particular, «agricultural commodities are supported by the dynamics of water shortages in Asia and the Western United States, the declining payback from the green revolution in terms of improving crop yields and the increasing demand from Asia for a diet based more on grains and meat as the population becomes wealthier,» the group responded by e-mail.

Developing disease - resistance and increasing crop yields are only part of the solution to the world's food challenges, of course.

We already produce far more food than is possible to sell and are therefore hardly in need of the increased yields that GM crops are supposed to provide.

The association does surveys to estimate harvest yields and also has a programme of model farms to raise productivity, increase farmers» incomes and dissuade them from switching to other crops

In times of drought, when other crops in quinoa - growing areas fail, quinoa can actually increase its yields.

[17] Genetic engineering of seeds has made GMO crops more resistant to pests and increased yields while at the same time creating more digestive health issues for consumers.

A group of biologists from the Missouri - based Donald Danforth Plant Science Center have uncovered a genetic mechanism that could increase the yields of some of the world's most important cereal crops, like maize and sorghum.

In 1985, Vietnam achieved self - sufficiency in rice and then went on to continue to increase its production due to supportive government policies, and its adoption of better crop management strategies and new high - yielding rice varieties.

«The use of the Rice Crop Manager will hopefully bring an increase in yield or productivity, and also raise the income of farmers by about Php 4,000 per crop per hectare,» said Dr. Manny Regalado, acting deputy director for research at the Department of Agriculture - Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA - PhilRiCrop Manager will hopefully bring an increase in yield or productivity, and also raise the income of farmers by about Php 4,000 per crop per hectare,» said Dr. Manny Regalado, acting deputy director for research at the Department of Agriculture - Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA - PhilRicrop per hectare,» said Dr. Manny Regalado, acting deputy director for research at the Department of Agriculture - Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA - PhilRice).

As in many other crop species, genetically modified (GM) varieties of sugarcane are forecast to improve profitability by reducing input costs, increasing sucrose yield or introducing novel products.

This ready and seemingly inexhaustible supply of phosphorus, in the form of guano phosphate (seabird droppings), dramatically increased Australian crop yields, and agricultural productivity following the Second World War.

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Technologies that will be presented at the exhibition include Gamaya, which has been designed to improve the efficiency and sustainability of industrial farms, as well as new sorting solutions that have the potential to increase the yield of the maize crop.

Then there was exciting news from India's poorest state, Bihar (pop 100 million, and 50 % of families in poverty), where the application of what's called the System of Rice / Root Intensification (SRI) has «dramatically increased yields with wheat, potatoes, sugar cane, yams, tomatoes, garlic, aubergine and many other crops», according to the Guardian newspaper.

But now the increasing demand in the market for both the green and dried article is attracting the attention of farmers who have an eye for crops that do not fail and that yield good returns.

The US has long embraced genetic modification as a means of improving the nutritional profile of food, reducing the need for large quantities of pesticide and increasing crop yield.

Might we even supercharge the photosynthetic process and increase the yields of vital food crops?

If successful, they envision being able to reduce the need for chemical fertilizers and enhance soil carbon uptake, thus improving the long - term viability of the land, while at the same time increasing crop yields.

But curbing those substances, scientists and activists say, could slow atmospheric warming 0.5 degrees Celsius by 2050 while also increasing crop yields and preventing hundreds of thousands of related deaths from respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.

Gentry added that the researchers hypothesize that corn yields can be further increased in a sustainable way, even beyond the results demonstrated in this study, with continued crop breeding efforts, advancements in fertilizer formulations and placement technology, and possibly, with the development of effective plant growth promoters, she said.

By using an intensified management system that included increased plant population, transgenic (Bt trait) insect resistance, strobilurin - containing fungicide, balanced crop nutrition (phosphorus - sulfur - zinc), and supplemental side - dressed nitrogen, the researchers saw a yield increase of 28 percent more corn grain compared to that of a standard management system.

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.

Corn yields with today's hybrids do have the potential to increase with the application of protection chemicals and by making crop nutrients more plant - available,» she said.

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.

After an 11 - year inquiry, a group of Asian and American researchers found a 10 percent drop in rice - crop yields for every increase in nighttime temperatures of 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit.

As oilseed rape faces declining yields and increasing attacks from pest and disease, UK farming needs another break crop to ensure the sustainability of its agriculture and maintain cereal yields.

The applications of gene therapy and genetic engineering are broad: everything from pet fish that glow red to increased crop yields worldwide to cures for many of the diseases that plague humankind.

They found that both mitigation scenarios should increase yields for all crops compared to the business - as - usual scenario, including cotton and forage, and that the more ambitious scenario has the potential to reduce the number of water - stressed basins.

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.

Some of these products include crops with improved tolerance to drought, more effective utilization of nitrogen, increased yield and enhanced nutrition.

«Biologists uncovers a genetic mechanism that could enhance yield in cereal crops: Precise regulation of plant hormones in early reproductive development as a target for yield increases.»

The ability to do so will certainly allow farmers to extend the growing season of crops and the land area in which to grow them, increasing both yield stability and production capacity,» said Asst Prof Xu.

Genetically modified crops that produce the pest - killing toxin Bt increase yields and reduce the use of noxious chemical insecticides.

Initial experiments showed that adding biochar to typical tropical soils increased crop yields, making it possible for farmers to cultivate a plot of land in these soils for more than a few years.

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.

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

This so - called short - term evolution leads to a continued increase of crop yield in mixtures — a possibility that, according to Schmid, was unexpected in both basic research and plant cultivation.

The FRO2 gene is common to all plants, so boosting its expression in food crops or finding variants that thrive in poor soils could be important for increasing crop yields in the face of population growth and global warming's threats to arable land.

Using high - performance computing and genetic engineering to boost the photosynthetic efficiency of plants offers the best hope of increasing crop yields enough to feed a planet expected to have 9.5 billion people on it by 2050, researchers report in the journal Cell.

This is a serious problem as the predicted increase in frequency of extreme climate episodes will lead to multiple drought conditions during crop growth which in turn will reduce the yield of wheat, one of the world's most important foods.

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.

«This suite of tools will vastly improve our understanding of the nitrogen - uptake process and will help to develop increased crop yields and decrease fertilizer - caused pollution.»

The surprising discovery may aid the development of chronotherapy — treatment scheduled according to time of day — in people, and the development of new crop varieties with increased yields or adjustable harvesting seasons.

Adding moderate amounts increases crop yields and stabilizes soils while reducing the need to throw huge quantities in landfills or holding ponds, said Yuncong Li, University of Florida professor of soil and water sciences.

Here, at the annual meeting of AAAS (which publishes ScienceNOW), Watt explains to Kerry Klein that a greater understanding of root systems could lead to increased crop yields in a wide diversity of climates.

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.