Sentences with phrase «irrigated produces»

The 17 % of cropland that is irrigated produces an estimated 30 - 40 % of all crops, but in many countries there will be progressively less water available for agriculture.

«In a randomized controlled trial we have demonstrated that healthy individuals consuming reclaimed wastewater - irrigated produce excreted carbamazepine and its metabolites in their urine, while subjects consuming fresh water - irrigated produce excreted undetectable or significantly lower levels of carbamazepine,» said Prof. Ora Paltiel, Director of the Hebrew University - Hadassah Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, who led the research.

Not exact matches

An irrigated carob tree can produce up to 200 kilograms of pods each year, so our orchard should produce at least 600 tonne of carob pods per year within the next few years.»

All commercially grown Hass and Lamb - Hass avocados are insurable if the crop is irrigated and the crop has reached the sixth growing season or has produced at least 2,000 pounds of avocados per acre in one of the three most recent crop years.

Similarly, after 6,000 years of success in a Neolithic subsistence farming culture, we had once again produced more people than we could support, so we were driven to create cities and organize irrigated agriculture.

«So, the idea,» she said, «was they did everything right to produce their best crop — their best seed, they fertilized it, they irrigated it — whatever they needed to do, but they just didn't control the weeds in the untreated plots, so we could see what kind of yield loss impact that would have.»

By irrigating land that would otherwise be desert, they produce half of the fruit and vegetables sold in the US.

Butter is a perfect long distance food; it lasts for a long time, so it can be transported on a boat, it is resource intensive (a lot of feed goes into a gallon of milk, a lot of milk goes into a pound of butter), and the variation in environmental impact depending on where it is produced is huge (rain irrigated pasture over artificially irrigated grain).

Because a large percentage of U.S. produce is irrigated with perchlorate - contaminated water, perchlorate is also prevalent in the U.S. food supply.

It is the commercial center of an irrigated area that produces large quantities of sugarcane, rice, tobacco, and fruit, and provides the province with its nickname, the Garden of the Republic.

The MDB accounts for 70 % of the nations irrigated agriculture and normally produces 40 % of our food produce.

@vukcevic: Win - win is to irrigate the northern Sahara, it will go green, take billion tons of CO2, create its own climate, and produce grain and wine as it did in Roman warm period.

Win - win is to irrigate the northern Sahara, it will go green, take billion tons of CO2, create its own climate, and produce grain and wine as it did in Roman warm period.

The USDA / NASS studies tracked harvested acres without differentiating between irrigated and non-irrigated acreage; it gathered data on planted vs. harvested acres for some crops but not others; it did not account for systems in which «baby vegetable» crops (usually organic) are grown in short rotations on the same plot (such as spinach, lettuce, and carrots) and thus have lower yields; and it omitted some data that would have revealed too much information about individual farmers, in cases where very few growers produce a particular crop.

With 60 percent of the world's grain harvest produced on irrigated land, anything that reduces the irrigation water supply reduces the food supply.

Salient circumstances at present include a forecast zero flow nomination to the State Water Project, a counter-intuitive assessment that supplies for southern, highly populated counties are far less seriously threatened due to more robust storage, Bay Area delta eco systems threatened with «collapse», and land fallowing in the San Joaquin running to half a million acres (of a CA total of ~ 8 million irrigated, that produce nearly half the nation's fruits and veggies).

What they need is a way to produce green energy for a polluted province and planet and farmers who've been scratching out a living on notoriously poorly irrigated land for decades can finally make a little money by leasing out land on which the clean energy machines will operate.

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS • Mowed and irrigated pastures without supervision which led to 30 % increase in produce • Sprayed acres of crops of bean and cotton with fertilizers and pesticides single handedly enhancing quality of the produce by 50 % • Planned and implemented changes in the existing barn house setting and interior which were highly commended • Revealed exemplary performance in grooming race horses and earned second prize for the same in annual horse exhibition • Stocked and labeled shelves with new equipment and worked for extra hours during staff shortage