Sentences with phrase «produce after harvesting»

The leaders of the women farmers took turns to express their problems including credit facilities, lack of marketing for their produce after harvesting, and farm inputs to increase their farms.

«Organic growers are also likely to use older and more nutritious plant varieties, and they take exceptional care of produce after harvest,» Marshall says.

Not exact matches

Most of the products derived from whales can now be produced from other sources just as well and in any case the most economic use of whales, so some have argued, would be to harvest the lot now and thus circumvent the necessity year after year.

Fresh produce presents a unique challenge for packaging materials as fruit and vegetables continue to respire after harvesting.

The other, a wild relative of sugarcane (Saccharum spontaneum), provides hardiness to harsh environments and the ability to ratoon or produce additional profitable crops from re-growth after harvest.

Even after the plants have produced their pods, they must be checked daily so that each pod is harvested at just the right time.

Throughout September, Temecula Valley Southern California Wine Country will be celebrating the harvest, as well as the people, personalities and passion that go into making the great wines our region produces year after year.

Hand - picked fruits such as strawberries begin to decay immediately after being harvested, and the market value of the crop may decline by as much as 10 percent per hour if the harvested produce sits in the hot sun waiting to be transported to refrigerated storage, Sowers said.

After crunching the numbers, Vogel and his colleagues found that ethanol produced from switchgrass yields 540 % of the energy used to grow, harvest, and process it into ethanol.

In thecase of corn stover (the leaves andstalks remaining in the field after corn is harvested), 250 million dry tonsare produced each year and are rarely utilized, other than to feed grazingcattle immediately after a harvest.

In direct and local markets, produce is usually sold within 24 hours after harvest at its peak freshness and ripeness, making consuming them a more attractive prospect.

After harvesting is done, the spears grow into ferns, which produce red berries and the food and nutrients necessary for a healthy and productive crop the next season.

In contrast, farmers bring local produce to market soon after harvest and travel time is substantially shorter.

This produces five to eight stems from a single bush for harvesting per year after 8 - 10 years.

Aimed at a new generation of grow - your - own urban gardeners, the packets feature easy - to - follow advice on how to sow seeds and look after crops, along with tips on harvesting, eating and storing produce.

With Edipeel, fresh produce can last much longer after harvest, and preserve its flavor and appearance, which has the potential to massively reduce food waste.

Instead of burning piles of forest residue after timber harvests, this underutilized material can be used to produce renewable energy.

To produce enough corn - based ethanol to meet current U.S. demand for automotive gasoline, we would need to nearly double the amount of land used for harvested crops, plant all of it in corn, year after year, and not eat any of it.»

With an annual output of 700 million tons of crop stalk, i.e. non-food parts of crops that are typically discarded after crop harvest, China is eyeing its cultivation of rice, wheat, corn and other crops as a replenishable source of stalk, which can be fermented through anaerobic digestion to produce biogas.

The growing season is now irregular, leaving us with a smaller harvest and seeds that under - produce year after year.

It's only produced in great years, bottled two years after harvest.