Sentences with phrase «predicted wheat yields»

With the world population estimated to grow to 9 billion by 2050 and Earth's resources under severe strain predicted wheat yields are not expected to meet the increased demand for food.

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By that time, CIMMYT predicts, almost a quarter of South Asia's wheat yield could be wiped out by global warming.

The researchers predict that crop yields for wheat, soybean, and sorghum should increase even more if mitigation measures are put in place.

French Agriculture Minister Bruno Le Maire warned this week that the warmest and driest spring in half a century could slash wheat yields and might even push up world prices despite the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's predicting a bumper global crop due to greater plantings.

Instead, it shows the predicted change in Kansas wheat yields if we were to experience a 1 degree (C) increase (1.8 degrees F) in temperature.

This is a serious problem as the predicted increase in frequency of extreme climate episodes will lead to multiple drought conditions during crop growth which in turn will reduce the yield of wheat, one of the world's most important foods.

On another front, Texas A&M's Unmanned Aerial Systems Project is providing a new perspective to help wheat farmers manage diseases and water stress, predict yield in crop - breeding programs, and measure livestock forage production.

The researchers, Dr John Duncan, Dr Jadu Dash and Professor Pete Atkinson, all geographers at the University of Southampton, say an intensification is predicted for the recent increases in warmth in India's main wheat belt that are damaging crop yields.

It predicts increases of 30 to 60 percent in the yields of soybeans, cotton, wheat and other crops — enough to provide food and clothing for earth's expanding human population.

It predicts increases of 30 to 60 percent in the yields of soybeans, cotton, wheat and other crops — ignoring projections to the contrary from plant and agricultural scientists

say it has been predicted that «the average temperature in the semiarid northwest portion of China in 2050 will be 2.2 °C higher than it was in 2002,» and they report that based on the observed results of their study, this increase in temperature «will lead to a significant change in the growth stages and water use of winter wheat,» such that «crop yields at both high and low altitudes will likely increase,» by 2.6 % at low altitudes and 6.0 % at high altitudes... Even without the benefits of the aerial fertilization effect and the anti-transpiration effect of the ongoing rise in the air's CO2 content, the increase in temperature that is predicted by climate models for the year 2050, if it ever comes to pass, will likely lead to increases in winter wheat production in the northwestern part of China, not the decreases that climate alarmists routinely predict.»