Sentences with phrase «raise grain yields»
Scientists have long sought such a stiff - leafed rice plant, believing that it would raise grain yields.
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Once again, Major is going against the grain to say yields will fall even further, though the Fed has maintained that it could raise short - term interest rates this year.
«Negative yield changes in North America would substantially raise grain prices worldwide,» he said in Oxford, before leaving for the US to deliver his findings.
Between 1950 and 1973 the world's farmers doubled the grain harvest, nearly all of it from raising yields.
After several decades of Lrapid rise in world grain yields, it is now becoming more difficult to raise land productivity fast enough to keep up with the demands of a growing, increasingly affluent, population.