Sentences with phrase «of paddy rice»

Assuming that bacterial blight epidemic occurs in 10 % of the time over the production area, the yield gain is estimated to be 0.8 million metric tons of paddy rice per cropping season in India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and China.

Dangote, who made this known during the 2017 Niger State Investment Summit in Minna, said the funds would be used to establish a large scale rice processing mill to process over 200, 000 metric tonnes of paddy rice.

Golden Rice (Cambodia) has the capacity to process more than 100,000 tons of paddy rice per year.

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During my stay in Bali in late 2016, I was living in a beautiful jungle home amongst lush rice paddies, and because of the convenience, I often chose to work from my desk at home.

«They came right up the middle of the rice paddy.

Punjab government is in full swing in promoting Punjab Agriculture University (PAU) Rice variety, farmers are being urged to switch to the early - maturing varieties of Paddy which n...

Stretches of land were cultivated with paddy, rice and fruit trees indicating a self - sufficient Malayarayan economy.

And in the villages, the rice paddies are plowed while transistor radios next to the field broadcast the changing prices of oil — which influence fertilizer and marketing costs — along with the latest pop music from all over the world.

I don't ever want to see another generation of young Americans bleed their lives into sandy beachheads in the Pacific, or rice paddies and jungles in Asia or the muddy battlefields of Europe.

IRRI and its partners have high hopes for the technology, as it typically takes 2,000 liters of water to produce a kilogram of paddy (unmilled rice).

The choice of compositional parameters was based on the OECD consensus document on compositional considerations for new rice varieties, which for rice paddy included proximates, fibre, polysaccharides, fatty acids, amino acids, minerals, vitamins, and anti-nutrients.

At least 8 million people and around 8,000 hectares of paddy have been affected, leading to food shortage and hiked rice prices over the past few months.

Any field in the world, it doesn't matter: an acre of cassava in Nigeria, a rice paddy in Indonesia, some amber waves of grain in the United States.

Available data demonstrate that organic management of rice paddy fields provides optimal foraging areas for birds and is beneficial to many endangered species of birds, such as the cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis), little egret (Egretta garzetta), grey heron (Ardea cinerea), purple heron (Ardea purpurea), purple swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio), squacco heron (Ardeola ralloides), black - winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus) and many others.

Economically speaking, the selling price of organic rice in the Ebro Delta is higher than conventional rice, and permits greater profit to farmers, in spite of the major cost of labour (organic farming of this particular system needs 25 percent more than conventional farming) and lower yields -LRB--15 percent in organic paddy fields).

Axiom has invested years of research and education of farmers, leading to the cultivation of organic rice in Axiom's proprietary, chemical - free rice paddies.

We joined our guide Tokok, a Balinese local for a pied - piper inspired single - file walk through narrow rice paddy fields stopping as women rode side - saddle on motorbikes and a passing parade of smiling drivers carefully navigated the slim pathways.

Renamed the Demi - tour du Vietnam, since it covered only about half the route of the old race, it ran for six days and covered 475 miles from rice paddies to highlands and back.

outside of their village, to teach babies that crying brought rejection, not gratification of their needs [crying infants could alert an enemy] I am reminded of Dr. Tom Dooley writing about Vietnamese women, who squatted all day in rice paddies, which was great for their pelvic floors, and who had babies the right size for their Asian pelves, and perhaps it was a factor, but he never saw the dead ones, did he?

Ambode said, «The state - of - the - art rice mill will be sited in Imota, Ikorodu, and it requires 32,000 hectares of land for cultivation of rice paddy.

The solution may be to impose limits on pumping aquifer water — particularly in the case of northwestern India, which uses it to fill seasonal rice paddies covering some 38,000 square kilometers.

Methane, the main component of natural gas, is released from leaking pipelines, coal mines, oil wells, cattle, rice paddies and landfills.

Some plants are now found only on the margins of rice paddies.

Recent studies in Japan have virtually all found that the abandonment of small, traditionally managed rice paddies results in less biodiversity among the seminatural grasses and weeds that grow on paddy margins and in the insect populations that depend on that vegetation.

The domestic duck — determined to be the main carrier of the disease — is a common inhabitant of Southeast Asia's rice paddies, and the movement of migratory birds — a secondary carrier — could be predicted based on temperatures.

You've probably seen pictures of farmers wading ankle deep through waterlogged rice paddies.

Around the buildings lay the dry, deciduous forest of the Ankarafantsika Reserve Complex, and around the complex lay the fields and paddies of the second largest rice - growing region in the country.

Researchers suggest reasons for the fortunate decline, which range from the repair of leaky natural gas pipelines to steady acreage of rice paddies, where methane - producing bacteria thrive.

Methane, for example, is generated primarily by bacterial decomposition of organic matter — particularly in such places as landfills, flooded rice paddies, and theguts of cattle and termites — and by the burning of wood.

There are methane - generating archaea in our rice paddies, for instance, and also in the intestines of cows.

Landfills, cattle, rice paddies, swamps, forest fires, and oil and gas production wells are some of the biggest sources of methane leakage into the atmosphere.

Food production accounts for a third of all greenhouse gas emissions when one tallies those from fossil fuels used in growing, preparing and transporting food; the carbon dioxide released by clearing land for farming and pastures; the methane from rice paddies and ruminant livestock; and the nitrous oxide from fertilizer use.

His title is pekaseh, the elected head of a green and fruitful pocket of the watershed, which includes 110 families and their separate - but - cooperating rice paddy operations.

Farmers and volunteers spend three days each year planting the rice paddy art pieces, some of which can stretch over nearly four acres.

For decades the Chinese mined a phosphorus - rich layer of rock that winds through the hillsides of Guizhou Province and used it to make fertilizer for rice paddies.

The next step, Wright notes, is to look at a more complete assessment of beaver meadows» carbon budget that takes into account the greenhouse gases emitted by microbes that tend to thrive in moist sediments such as natural wetlands and rice paddies.

Being a silica rich material is important for reducing the amount of arsenic in the rice plant because the mechanism for uptake of arsenite, which is the most dominant form of arsenic in flooded rice paddies, shares a transport pathway with dissolved silicon.

Although she had done some research with synthetic silicon fertilizers that showed promise for decreasing arsenic in the grains, Seyfferth said it wasn't until she went to Cambodia and saw the vastness of rice paddies and how much rice residue is being generated from the production of rice globally that she really wanted to explore using some of those materials as silica sources.

Now, with the addition of a single gene, rice can be cultivated to emit virtually no methane from its paddies during growth.

The study, led by Ralph J. Cicerone and Kelly R. Redeker of the University of California, Irvine, examines the emissions of hydrocarbons in California rice paddies over several seasons.

Because the storm damaged giant swathes of the country's fisheries and rice paddies, the destruction could put the nation at further risk for future food security, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations warned.

So you know, people learn how to double dig beds and do various soil conservation techniques; they learn how to intercrop, all kinds of things; agroforestry, learn how to grow large amounts of fish in [a] rice paddy, [so even] if you're rice yield declines a little bit your protein yield goes [through] the roof.

Based on the data, the scientists conclude that «worldwide rice production is responsible for [about] 1 percent of atmospheric methyl bromide and 4 percent of atmospheric methyl iodide» and that «methyl iodide emissions from rice paddies provide a sizable terrestrial source to the global budget.»

Rice has higher arsenic concentrations than other grains because of the unique physiology of the plant and because of the way it's grown, in flooded rice paddRice has higher arsenic concentrations than other grains because of the unique physiology of the plant and because of the way it's grown, in flooded rice paddrice paddies.

Shenzhen was a sparsely populated region of rice paddies with a tightly guarded, barbed - wire border with British - ruled Hong Kong during the isolationist rule of Chairman Mao Zedong.

Flooded rice paddies also emit methane because water prevents oxygen from reaching the soil, triggering a build - up of methane - emitting bacteria.

Some species of Anabaena, which can be found worldwide, have been successfully used to provide nitrogen to rice crops in flooded paddy fields.

Diversity of microbial communities potentially involved in mercury methylation in rice paddies surrounding typical mercury mining areas in China — Xin Liu — Microbiology Open

Every mile on this picturesque pedal tour through Vietnam's rice paddies, villages and tranquil highlands will help to fund a bus for a NSW school with a high proportion of special needs students.

Add the risk of arsenic in paddy grown brown or white rice to the mix.