Sentences with phrase «planting by farmers»

Since dense planting by farmers leads to a major loss of yield, knowledge of this pathway is already being put to good use.

In fact, Golden Rice will not be available for planting by farmers in the Philippines or any other country in the next few months, or even this year.

The Philippine Rice Research Institute, in partnership with the International Rice Research Institute and other partners, have recently finished two seasons of field trials in the Philippines, but this doesn't mean that Golden Rice is now ready for planting by farmers.

In a news release, scientists at the meeting, held at a branch of the nonprofit International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, estimated that 90 percent of the wheat varieties planted by farmers around the world lack resistance to the rust variant, called Ug99 after its discovery in Uganda in 1999.

Not exact matches

He wants to build a global company that helps farmers everywhere manage their fields on a plant - by - plant level, mainstreaming artificial intelligence as an integral part of agriculture.

AIF's Kigali - based plant, which produces fortified cereal — much of it for WFP — is operated by East Africans, and its cereals are made with locally - grown maize and soybeans procured from 7,500 smallholder farmers.

Robert Saik founded the company in 1987 with a $ 35,000 line of credit and a fax machine, frustrated by how farmers were making decisions about what to plant, how to fertilize or treat it, and when or where to sell it.

Late in the week, Statistics Canada released planting plans by farmers for the 2018 crops.

Neuhaus» gifts to those who loved him, it is one that, having been planted by a most assiduous farmer in the soil of young hearts, grows over a lifetime.

But even farmers were liable to go hungry after the Sabbath year — the seventh year of the agricultural cycle in which they rested the land by not planting or harvesting.

The chemical corporation Monsanto has turned this potential into huge profits by patenting seed stock that is compatible with its own pesticide, Roundup, and manufacturing sterile «terminator» seed that requires farmers to buy each year's planting seed from the company.

Missionaries organized a heroic fight against the system of cultivation whereby the poor farmers were forced to cultivate Indigo plants against their wishes by European planters.

At that time, 47 Iowa turkey farmers formed the turkey co-op and assumed the business by purchasing the plant.

One example, she notes, is the lake effect caused by Lake Erie, which can delay planting for northern Ohio and Pennsylvania farmers.

Determined to start a successful business and help cultivate a better way of life for conventional essential oil farmers in disadvantaged Indian villages, Mudar began the enormous task of organizing these laborers and directing them toward a more profitable agricultural pursuit: growing certified organic plants, which by their very nature command higher prices than their conventionally grown counterparts.

Untreated manure of all types has the potential to pose a food safety risk, and farmers, organic and conventional alike, have traditionally mitigated this risk by applying manure to their fields early in the season before they have planted the crop.

One of the most common ways that organic farmers meet these requirements is by planting insectaries that provide habitat and season - long food sources for pollinators.

By accident, farmers produced a sweet variety in their fields when they planted milder «eating» Paprika with hotter «seasoning» Paprika in proximity, and insects cross - pollinated the two.

Now the farmers are planting habaneros around the perimeter, and the Chile Pepper Company has been assisting the farmers by buying the chiles from them and making products like hot sauces and jams under the Elephant Pepper Brand.

Beston Global Foods is benefiting from the fall - out of the Murray Goulburn mayhem in the dairy sector on two fronts, with disgruntled dairy farmers approaching Beston wanting to switch to supplying the company, which is also rebuilding a mozzarella cheese plant dismantled by Murray Goulburn.

In a study made by MASIPAG, a farmer needs about Php 9,800.00 to purchase GM corn seeds to plant one hectare.

Farmers are still continuing to seek a resolution to the proposed closure of the Tullos milk processing plant, in Aberdeen, by Muller UK & Ireland.

The oat seedlings are identity preserved Non GMO and planted by small, carefully chosen family farmers in fields where no wheat is subject to cross contamination.

1) Conserved natural ecosystems; 2) Areas being restored to natural ecosystems; 3) Tree cover within agroforestry or silvopastoral production plots2; 4) Gardens, live fences, riparian zones or border plantings; or 5) Off - site compensation areas, including land held in common by farmer groups that is not part of individual member farms3.

Western Australian farmers have benefited from the support provided to developing country trainees by acquiring valuable plant germplasm — Biserrula from Morocco, anthracnose resistant albus lupin from Ethiopia, and black spot resistant field pea from Russia — through the scientific network that the training courses have established.

If Batian helps reduce that fear, I consider it much more likely that farmers will start to plant shade again, particularly if organic agriculture in Kenya is supported by roasters.

Aligned with the industry's CocoaAction strategy, we commit to tackling farmer poverty by empowering farmers to earn a better income through access to training, coaching, financing and planting material.

A Robert Wiseman plant near Bridgwater, Somerset was blockaded by hundreds of farmers and their tractors, while hundreds more protested outside Arla plants in Leeds and Ashby de la Zouch in Leicestershire.

Alfonso shared that Golden Rice was invented by Professor Ingo Potrykus, then of the Institute for Plant Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and Professor Peter Beyer of the University of Freiburg, Germany, and is a gift to resource - poor farmers in developing countries by these inventors.

By selecting the best performing rice plants and using them to breed new rice varieties, rice farmers, and more recently rice breeders, have been changing the genetic composition of rice to generate new and improved rice varieties for thousands of years.

The new organic milk spray drying plant will be built at North Geelong in Victoria on land adjacent to an existing processing operation built in 2016 by the Organic Dairy Farmers of Australia, which operates at a site close to the former Ford engine plant.

Commonly used by farmers to control weeds, and Landcare groups to kill grass and weeds before tree planting, many don't have any qualms about using glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup ® — but not the Storti's and thousands of other organic farmers.

Food farmers will remain profitable by boosting productivity especially though adoption of plant varieties using genetically modified organism technology.

We in Virginia are on the same latitude as the village of Padron, so we asked a local farmer if he could recreate this treat by planting imported seeds.

Birds deposit the seeds in peanut or cotton fields, and the plants that sprout are cultivated by the farmers, only in the sense that they do not chop them down.

Cuba then began a system of participatory plant breeding whereby trials were conducted by farmers themselves on their own land in collaboration with researchers.

Guano is prized by Malcolm Beck and many organic farmers and gardeners for its properties as a plant fertilizer, soil builder, soil cleanser, fungicide, nematocide and compost activator.

Agroforestry practices provide cocoa farmers with resilience to climate change by promoting the planting of income generating hardwoods and other crops among cacao tress well as conservation of forests for both shade and soil health.

«Agricultural practices» shall mean all activities conducted by a farmer on a farm to produce agricultural products and which are inherent and necessary to the operation of a farm including, but not limited to, the collection, transportation, distribution, storage and land application of animal wastes; storage, transportation and use of equipment for tillage, planting, harvesting, irrigation, fertilization and pesticide application; storage and use of legally permitted fertilizers, limes and pesticides all in accordance with local, state and federal law and regulations and in accordance with manufacturers» instructions and warnings; storage, use and application of animal feed and foodstuffs; construction and use of farm structures and facilities for the storage of animal wastes, farm equipment, pesticides, fertilizers, agricultural products and livestock, for the processing of animal wastes and agricultural products, for the sale of agricultural products, and for the use of farm labor, as permitted by local and state building codes and regulations; including construction and maintenance of fences and lanes; «Agricultural products» shall mean those products as defined in subdivision 2 of section 301 of the agriculture and markets law; «Farm» shall mean the land, buildings and machinery usable in the production, whether for profit or otherwise, of agricultural products;

The reality in India is that a recent survey of cotton farmers by IMRB International (formerly known as the Indian Market Research Bureau) showed a 118 per cent increase in profit for farmers planting Bt varieties over traditional cotton.

The Soil Association, which has long been at the head of the British organic movement, was founded in 1946, by a group of farmers, scientists and nutritionists who posited direct connections between farming practice and plant, animal, human and environmental health.

The freak plant continued to evolve, first on its own, and then by selection as farmers domesticated it for its tasty seeds that grew, not from its branches like most beans and peas, but beneath the soil.

The drone's cameras can also save farmers some time by totting up their plants for them.

It is forecast, for example, that U.S. farmers will cut maize plantings by 8 million acres, while raising soya - bean production by about the same amount.

Prompted by the extraordinary DNA identity, the scientists used information from decades - old botanical collections, knowledge of the seasonal movements of ancient hunter - gatherer - farmers and molecular DNA clock calculations to work out that the plants» seeds had almost certainly been transported by humans about 10,000 years ago.

The new technology could one day save farmers significant money and time by enabling intelligent agricultural equipment that automatically provides plants with water or nutrients at the first signs of distress.

Moreover, farmers may be able to adapt to many of the changes by altering planting times or the crops they grow, says plant physiologist Jerry Hatfield of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service in Ames, Iowa.

But the villages couldn't find a use for the expensive technology, so Grama and White turned their attention to the country's dairy industry, which is dominated by farmers with a few cows and who depend on rickshas, bikes, or their own feet to transport the warm milk on the first leg of its long journey from farm to local village collection center to the dairy plant.

And, for now, farmers have to laboriously supply it by applying fertilizer or planting legumes, which host nitrogen - fixing bacteria in their roots.

Despite rainfall decreasing by about 7 inches annually in the grain belt located in Western Australia since the 1970s, wheat production has increased, and Eckard said that's because farmers have employed adaptations such as planting species with shorter growing seasons, dry sowing seeds and tilling fields less often.