Sentences with phrase «much of the agricultural production»

Sadly, much of the agricultural production in the US, particularly in the Midwest, is lacking in biological diversity (at the genetic, species, and community level).

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«China has much potential to improve its domestic milk and feed production efficiencies,» says Lin Ma, the paper's corresponding author and a professor at the Center for Agricultural Resources Research, Institute of Genetic and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

For example, there has been much interest in the potential of large - scale, indoor agricultural production - often referred to as vertical farming - as a means to produce high quantities of produce.

By the end of this century, much of the Southeast will experience more than 100 days above 90 °F, which in the absence of adaptive actions is expected to lead to more heat - stress - related illness and deaths, decreased agricultural production, and negative impacts on fish and wildlife.

«Much research has looked at food security, but little has focused on the wider health effects of agricultural production,» Dr Springmann says.

Pollination by animals is directly responsible for between five and eight percent of agricultural production worldwide, or as much as $ 577 billion worth of crops, by one estimate.

During the past 50 years, the amount of the seasonal swings in CO2 has climbed by as much as half, and a research team has shown agricultural production may be generating as much as a quarter of the increase in the seasonal carbon cycle.