Sentences with phrase «major field crops»
Australian Crop Report is a quarterly report with a consistent and regular assessment of crop prospects for Australia's major field crops.
http://www.agriculture.gov.au/ Not exact matches
Therefore we convert rice field for rubber cultivation and other cash - crops, including horticultural plantations, develop capital intensive production units (in countries like India where the major strength is its labour power), thereby denying majority of people their right to work.
A field trial in Australia has shown that genetically modified banana trees can resist the deadly fungus that causes Panama disease, which has devastated banana crops in Asia, Africa, and Australia and is a major threat for banana growers in the Americas.
The chance of major global crop failures of this magnitude will increase with climate change, as drought, flooding, and heat waves strike fields more often.
Dong said a major limiting factor for crop assessment has been the lack of efficient root phenotyping methods for use in the field.
In one 2014 study, his group looked at six major food crops: wheat, rice, field peas, soybeans, maize (corn) and sorghum.
Free - air concentration enrichment (FACE) technology has now facilitated large - scale trials of the major grain crops at elevated [CO2] under fully open - air field conditions.
Future crop yields lower - than - expected under higher carbon dioxide levels Future crop yields lower than expected under higher carbon dioxide levels mongabay.com June 29, 2006 Open - air field trials involving five major...
About a year ago on this blog, I offered some skeptical commentary about the gloomy testimony of Dr. Christopher Field of the Carnegie Institution for Science, who warned the House Energy & Commerce Committee that global warming would inflict major losses on U.S. corn crop production unless scientists develop varieties with improved heat resistence.