Sentences with phrase «irrigated wheat»

«Climate change is projected to reduce timely sown irrigated wheat production by about 6 % in 2020.

Without better crop varieties or other agricultural technology improvements, irrigated wheat yields, for example, will fall at least 20 percent by 2050 as a result of global warming, and south Asia as well as parts of sub-Saharan Africa will face the worst effects.

Many of Peru's farmers irrigate their wheat and potatoes with the river water from these disappearing glaciers.

Not exact matches

The second objective was to use the evaluated modules to assess the long - term effects of growing winter wheat as a cover crop on water balances and seed cotton yield under irrigated and dryland conditions, Ale said.

The two DSSAT crop modules were evaluated using measured data on soil water and crop yield from four treatments: irrigated cotton without a cover crop, irrigated cotton with winter wheat as a cover crop, dryland cotton without a cover crop, and dryland cotton with a winter wheat cover crop at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Station at Chillicothe from 2011 to 2015.

Under the same business - as - usual scenario, the researchers projected higher yields for irrigated crops such as wheat, soybean, and sorghum.

Borlaug also found that when he applied fertiliser and irrigated the tall spindly Mexican wheat varieties, the heads grew satisfyingly fatter but the top - heavy plants now toppled over.

Wheat yields were low and static, with a national average yield of 750 kilos per hectare, even though most of the wheat was grown on irrigated Wheat yields were low and static, with a national average yield of 750 kilos per hectare, even though most of the wheat was grown on irrigated wheat was grown on irrigated land.

What could threaten world food security more than the melting of the glaciers that feed the major rivers of Asia during the dry season, the rivers that irrigate the region's rice and wheat fields?

It is the water from these rivers that irrigates the rice and wheat fields in the region.

The former Soviet union had a virgin lands campaign where they converted something like 46 million hectares of virgin steppe in to wheat acreage attempted to irrigate with water that would wind up in the Aral Sea.

Himalayan glaciers that feed the rivers that irrigate the rice fields of China and the wheat fields of India are fast disappearing.

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