Scientists have long sought such a stiff - leafed rice plant, believing that it would
raise grain yields.
Not exact matches
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.