Sentences with phrase «more than any other crop»

Algae is unique because it's highly efficient at turning sunlight, water and CO2 into vitamins and nutrients, more than any other crop.

Because of its appeal to a variety of insects, conventional cotton gets treated with pesticides more than any other crop except coffee.The pesticides used, cyanide, dicofol, naled, propargite and trifluralin, are all known to cause cancer, and have been classified by the US Environmental Protection Agency as the most dangerous pesticides.

Not exact matches

At the same time, projections for total planted US corn and soy acreage was reduced as farmers shifted to other crops; they are, however, expected to plant more soybeans than corn for the first time in 35 years.5 Brazilian corn acres also showed a downward bias.

It is also more sustainable than many other crops.

However, we would like to join the ranks of people, including the more than 6,000 supporters who have signed the petition to stop the destruction of field trials of GM crops, in calling for anti-GM activists and other concerned citizens to not take action that could delay the assessment and ongoing research of Golden Rice as a potential new way to reduce vitamin A deficiency and reduce the damage it can do to the precious vision and eyes of children.

«It's important to incorporate C4 in rice because rice grows in places where other crops such as maize do not grow and because rice is the staple food of more than half the world, including many people who live in poverty.»

The criterion will apply to all crops of SAN's certification portfolio, not only to coffee, cocoa or other crops not tolerant to shade and therefore will increase SAN's positive impact on the more than 1.1 million certified farms in 42 countries.

Coffee, especially shade coffee, is a global crop that has a relatively lower impact on greenhouse gas emissions and a more positive impact on carbon sequestration than many other crops.There is potential for shade coffee farms to contribute to the mitigation of climate change and generate income for farmers at the same time; I have a previous post that outlines the basics.

The man who has scored more goals for Arsenal than any other has been bigging up the current crop of Gunners this week, despite the team having to rely on goals from the most unlikely source of our defensive midfielder Mathieu Flamini to beat north London rivals Tottenham to progress to the next round of the Capital One cup.

Klopp has enjoyed more victories over Guardiola than any other manager and he believes he can add to that impressive record because his Liverpool squad is closer in quality to Guardiola's current crop than at any time in their careers.

A former Everton player, Mustafi's name has cropped up more than any other since Mertesacker sustained his injury.

Environmentally Friendly — Organic cotton is friendlier on Mama Earth than a conventional cotton crop, which uses more chemicals from start to finish than any other crop.

Biofuels are the latest enticement to grow corn, which garners higher profits but requires more water than most other crops.

As you might expect the nominations were eclectic, but one name cropped up more frequently than any other — Homo sapiens.

Sorghum can potentially yield more energy per area of land than other crops while requiring much less input in terms of fertilizer or chemicals.

Algae production consumes more energy, has higher greenhouse gas emissions and uses more water than other biofuel sources, like corn, switch grass and canola, Clarens and his colleagues found by using a statistical model to compare growth data of algae with conventional crops.

One of the major problems with biofuels that algae could solve is space, since algae can yield as much as 100 times more fuel per unit area than other so - called «second generation» biofuel crops (e.g. non-food crops or non-food waste parts of food crops).

The giant wind turbines cropping up on ridges, shorelines and other windy locales across the world affect more than the wind — they are also changing local temperatures, notes a new study.

The spotted wing drosophila uses a sharp organ known as an ovipositor to pierce ripening fruit and deposit eggs directly inside the crop, making it much more damaging than other drosophila flies that lay eggs only on top of decaying fruit.

«However, the greatest reduction in nitrogen leaching occurs when bioenergy crops displace other cropland or grassland, because energy crops consume more water and less nitrogen fertilizer than the crops and grasses that they replace, resulting in less water runoff and nitrogen loss.»

Using corn crop residue to make ethanol and other biofuels reduces soil carbon and can generate more greenhouse gases than gasoline, according to a study published today in the journal Nature Climate Change.

More than 1 billion people are infected with disease - causing species worldwide, while other strains flourish in wheat, corn, and other crops, where they destroy food harvests.

No crop will survive a severe drought, he says, and other factors such as nutrient availability and soil quality are at play during water shortages, which tend to be more frequent but less severe than droughts.

But there are two which seem to crop up, in different ways, more often than any others.

Oil palms, which primarily grow in Southeast Asia and Africa, are highly productive, yielding more vegetable oil per hectare than any other oil - producing crop.

Like other trees, the oil palm plant serves as a natural reservoir for carbon and is more effective at sequestering carbon than other major vegetable crops.

Since potatoes produce by far more food per unit of land and per unit of water than any other major crop, it is likely that their role will further increase along with the challenge to feed the growing world population.

In 2011, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that 12.8 billion tons of nitrogen fertilizer costing more than $ 800 million were added to fields that produce corn, cotton, grains and other commodity crops.

Grown as cover crops in order to enrich soil, legumes are typically higher in protein than other crop plants, probably due to their symbiosis with...» More...

Although the symptoms of low testosterone will vary from individual to individual, there are a few symptoms that crop up more often than others.

India produces more bananas than any other country on the planet, accounting for about 28 percent of the worldwide crop.

And more than 90 percent of American soy crops are GM.5 Since the introduction of GM foods in 1996, we've had an upsurge in low birth weight babies, infertility, and other problems in the U.S. population, and animal studies thus far have shown devastating effects from consuming GM soy.

On the other hand, states that have more readily available resources, such as oil or crops, $ 100 tends to go further than most other states.

Ear cropping has been more common during certain periods than others.

Some recessive problems crop up in some breeds more than others.

Independent game networks and fan sites of various kinds began to crop up, some with more polish than others, but the benefit was an increase in volume and diversity of opinion.

Certain crops will only grow during specific months of the year, and some crops are more valuable than others.

Warps that go backwards, poison mushrooms that acted more like an enemy than a power - up, and many other elements were designed to challenge the cream of the original game's crop.

Some crops are more profitable than others, so you'll have to plan accordingly each season.

Drawing intensely in a loft in SoHo in 1964, the first crop of New York Studio School students realized they had spent more time drawing in their first week than they had in an entire semester at other institutions.

Hay - making was just one of the standard crop - harvesting chores for most farmers (the ones which had cattle), and was usually not thought of as any more «cyclic» than the other seasonal harvests.

Based on many studies covering a wide range of regions and crops, negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts (high confidence)... Since AR4, several periods of rapid food and cereal price increases following climate extremes in key producing regions indicate a sensitivity of current markets to climate extremes among other factors (medium confidence).

«Conventional cotton is one of the highest impact crops, using more chemicals than any other crop in the world.

Rice has around 10 to 20 times more arsenic than other cereal crops because it is grown in flooded fields which make it much easier for arsenic to leave the soil and enter the rice, notes an article by the BBC program Trust Me I'm a Doctor.

Tobacco as a crop will support more land clearing than other agricultural activities.

Modern corn hybrids require more nitrogen fertilizer, herbicides, and insecticides than any other crop, while causing the most extensive erosion of top soil.

Through thousands of years of selective breeding, the crop has evolved to be more resilient to harsh environmental conditions than other cereals, such as maize and wheat.

In other words, the compensation forest users would earn from REDD would have to be more than earnings they could make from, say, converting forest to oil palm or to another cash crop.»

Overall, Sweden has seen the greatest increases of certified coffee in Europe, with more than every other cup of coffee originating from certified crops.

In other words, it is relying on the resources of other countries to meet more than one quarter (28 %) of its citizens demands for crops.