Sentences with phrase «rate of agricultural production»

Contrary to the expectations of most people, the growth rate of agricultural production actually declined for four straight quarters from 4.5 % to 3.01 % before rising in Q4 to 4.23 %.

Not exact matches

In the 1950s, when the Soil Conservation Service (now known as the Natural Resources Conservation Service) began defining tolerable rates of soil erosion from agricultural land, hardly any data on rates of soil production were available.

The mean rating of companies in some industries, such as the 6.53 of the Communications industry, are higher on average than those of other industries, such as the 5.26 of the Agricultural Production industry.

It has managed to massively increase agricultural production, whilst avoiding mass land grabs - and so in fact has seen falling rates of deforestation.

They say the technological fixes also distract from more challenging social reforms like slowing the rate of population growth, shifting away from crops like corn ethanol that don't put food on the table, or ending subsidies for livestock production, which currently eats up an appalling 75 percent of the world's agricultural land.

# 146 — From Global Climate Change and Agricultural Production «Temperature effects on the rates of biochemical reactions may be modelled as the product of two functions, an exponentially increasing rate of the forward reaction and an exponential decay resulting from enzyme denaturation as temperatures increase (Figure 6.