Sentences with phrase «planting crops on»

On state - and community - owned lands, carbon finance would be used to fund sustainable development initiatives, like planting crops on degraded lands and reforestation.

Also nice is the fact that you are no longer restricted to planting crops on your own land.

By Marie Rohde The Pabst Farms developer slashed its property tax bill this year by planting crops on 145 acres planned for commercial development, despite restrictions banning farming.

This remote and rarely visited region offers the trekker an insider's view into traditional Andean life — a timeless world where farmers plant their crops on the lands their ancestors tended and watch over herds of llama and alpaca beneath the sacred snow - covered peaks they worshipped as gods.

Mostly a corn - growing region, they clear steep hillsides and plant their crops on some sections so vertical you wouldn't think it possible to walk up.

Even though the moutainous land is difficult to plant crops on, Georgia's economy revolves around agriculture as its main export.

Not exact matches

In the U.S., Lawson says high wheat prices have sparked a vicious cycle that is skewing farmers» planting decisions, and driving prices on other crops higher, too.

Farmers rely on Nesbitt and his colleagues» work to measure and model global rainfall to decide how to plant and water their crops.

Demand for distillate is going to stay strong as this stupid winter weather hangs on and farmers start to get their tiller, planters and tractors filled up as they prepare to plant our nation's crop.

On this farm, besides plowing fields, planting crops, and working horses, he writes novels and poems and essays.

Hi Dave, The last crop of peppers from my Habaneros are coming in, and since we're approaching winter I wanted ask if I should cut back the foliage on my plants at all.

A very easy to grow chili pepper which produces an insanely huge crop on a compact plant!

An outside organization would verify their performance on a variety of socially and environmentally responsible practices, ranging from installing solar panels, recycling corks, planting cover crops or reducing use of pesticides.

Planted last November, I've had my eye on this fava crop for a while now.

Though ingredient suppliers have been working with the crop for years, peas as a source of plant - based protein is on a strong upwards trajectory.

The main experiments used to conduct this research are the Farming Systems Trial (FST)- the oldest continuous trial in the US that compares organic and conventional farming systems, the new Vegetable Systems Trial (VST)- comparing the impacts organic and conventional farming practices on nutrient density in vegetables and linkages to soil health, and Integrated Crop - Livestock Systems using annual and perennial crops along with cattle or hogs for soil, plant, and animal health.

His plan was to put the most valuable crops in the center of the farm and the less valuable crops — and the chile plants — on the perimeter of the farm.

Cultivation for export, however, would involve less risk, if capsicums were regarded as a secondary or intermediate crop, to be grown on a plantation along with the principal one — as natives plant groundnuts or other beans between the rows of their maize - gardens — in a country with favourable soil and climate.

That's when Dr. Michael Bartolo, an extension vegetable crops specialist and associate professor at Colorado State University's Arkansas Valley Research Center, obtained a plant of a strain of Pueblo chile from his uncle, Harry Mosco, a farmer on the Saint Charles Mesa, east of Pueblo.

The treated water is used for irrigating crop on about 1,200 acres surrounding the plant.

After thoroughly reviewing existing literature on the pros and cons of crop diversification, and interviewing local experts, it became clear that some Ghanaian cocoa farmers do diversify — most commonly in the form of shade crops or intercrops at the early stages of the cocoa plant's life — but the approach is uncoordinated and haphazard.

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While our organization has branched out (pun intended) since its founding 30 years ago to protect temperate forests (such as those in the Appalachian mountains), and tropical forests in Africa and Asia, our first efforts were focused on the rainforests of Latin America, working with farmers and foresters there to improve their lives and livelihoods so they wouldn't have to clear trees to plant crops or sell timber.

The world's exploding population has made it profitable for big business to raze forests so it can plant mega crops like soy and oil palm; meanwhile, on a much, much smaller scale, subsistence farmers often clear trees so they can plant crops to feed their families and bring in small amounts of cash.

Our Indonesian business supports a community farming organisation in East Java in planting a variety of crop trees on 45.5 hectares at

Our Indonesian business supports a community farming organisation in East Java in planting a variety of crop trees on 45.5 hectares at Sumberejo Arjuna Mountain.

The last crop of peppers from my Habaneros are coming in, and since we're approaching winter I wanted ask if I should cut back the foliage on my plants at all.

The less intensive farming practices (plant protection, soil cultivation), the more favourable fertilizing management and the more diversified crop rotations on organic farms enhance specimen - and species - rich earthworm populations.

We maintain our own certified planting seed, and personally contracted with «Seedsmen» who have not grown any wheat, rye or barley on their land for the last 2 years and who use their combines for only Gluten Free Oats, LLC or non gluten crops.

I've recently been on a whistle - stop tour of can plants and machine manufacturers across the UK and Europe and the question of innovation has cropped up on many occasions.

Over 80 percent of all flowering plant species and over three - quarters of the major world crops rely on animal pollinators.

Axiom continues to widen the possibilities of the world's third largest plant crop into healthful products on which humans thrive.

A sustainable crop grown on the vines of the Peruvian Amazon, the Sacha Inchi plant is harvested from star - shaped pods.

The following year's crop will produce some hybrids, which are discernible by extensive pod variation in shape and size on the same plant.

Here's my latest garden update (http://takewithfoodblog.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/garden-update-june/)... that was only two weeks ago, but the plants are already sooo much bigger than they were and I estimate that I'm around 75 cherry tomatoes and well over a dozen on the other plants A pretty healthy crop for container plants, I think!

Specifically, the PBFA has called for: Support for specialty crops; research on plant protein; removing» anti-competitive» policies to bridge the large competitive gap between commodities and specialty crops; support for organic crops; inclusion of transparency and accountability provisions; and referencing «plant - based foods that are major sources of Nutrients of Concern» in 7 USC Section 3157 under «competitive special and facilities research grants.»

- Increase investment in research and development of plant - based foods and clean meat; - Clarify that food producers can use compound names such as «soy milk» and other descriptors on food labels; - Include commonsense measures to reform checkoff programs; and - Incentivize the production and consumption of specialty crops and pulses.

Only 10 % of the chemicals and pesticides used in conventional cotton farming lands on the cotton crops, the rest gets into our plants, soil, water, air and eventually back into our systems.

OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters)- The most extensive drought in five decades has left corn plants withered and dying, and crop yields in the largest producing states will be much lower than experts have forecast, scouts said on Friday as they completed a U.S. Midwest crop tour.

The European Academies Science Advisory Council concurred, stating there «is no validated evidence that GM crops have greater adverse impact on health and the environment than any other technology used in plant breeding».

A 2014 report to the UK Council for Science and Technology, for instance, concluded that «it is not appropriate to have a regulatory framework that is based on the premise that GM crops are more hazardous than crop varieties produced by conventional plant breeding», citing two decades of extensive studies that have not revealed significant risks to human, animal or environmental health.

Hawkins has held news conferences all over the state on such topics as shutting down nuclear power plants and banning the planting of genetically modified crops.

At issue is the right of the nomadic herdsmen to graze their cattle, which invariably infringes on the right of the farmers to plant and harvest their crops.

What's more, the rest of the crop — the vast black - market portion — is planted on public or tribal lands by people who ignore the environmental consequences of their activity.

Bees play an essential role in food security: Many crops, trees, and plants rely on bees for pollination.

This can have a dramatic impact on crops by reducing their yields and can endanger some species of plant altogether.

Much of my team's work focuses on transgene technology from early - stage experiments in model plants all the way to field trials with crop plants such as corn.

Professor Bruce Fitt, professor of plant pathology at the University of Hertfordshire's School of Medical and Life Sciences, said: «There is considerable debate about the impact of climate change on crop production — and making sure that we have sufficient food to feed the ever - growing global population is key to our future food security.»

An entomologist at Purdue University, Krupke published studies on the appearance of neonicotinoids in crop - adjacent plants last year.

But the study went a step further, comparing crop yields on conventional farms to those on organic farms where cover crops were planted and crops were rotated to build soil health.