Sentences with phrase «less fertile soil»

Energy crops produce energy efficiently, requiring only modest amounts of fertilizer and pesticide, and less fertile soil than is needed for other types of agriculture.

And many uncommon grains can grow in less fertile soil than wheat, corn and rice require.

vbhoomes writes «Nobody today knows what the political landscape will be in the fall of 2010, but its safe to say the democrats will be on less fertile soil because they control both ends of Pa. street and have nobody to blame if the things go wrong on the home front or overseas.»

Leskovar said with population growth and intense farming practices, maximizing crop yield in less fertile soils and mitigating plant growth under abiotic stress conditions are major challenges.

Not exact matches

JG: African soils were in general less fertile and less well - suited for agricultural production than American soils from the beginning.

And when they are, cities can perform the essential service of 21st century urbanism: creating regenerative buildings and landscapes that produce more good for more people rather than places that are merely less bad: More clean energy, more fresh water, more fertile soil, more food, more productivity, more biodiversity — more health and well - being for all.

County commissioners and other city staff persons mentioned that as water supplies are less reliable, the growing seasons lengthen, the summer is warmer and the soils become less fertile, that planning becomes more challenging because of the economic uncertainties.

(Both cause plant cover to decrease which causes soil moisture decreases often making storms less frequent, less regular, less predictable and more intense, further decreasing plant cover, reducing or killing crops, eroding soil (leading to decreased fertility, water pollution, etc.) and spiraling down into desertification and the creation of wasteland from what had been a fertile, verdant landscape.

Healthier, more fertile soil that is less vulnerable to drought and flooding.

«We're finding that biochar as a soil amendment tends to be less useful here in the Midwest, because the soil is already so fertile,» says Spokas.