Sentences with phrase «rice crop across»

The satellite - generated maps, developed by the International Rice Research Institute in collaboration with sarmap and the Department of Agriculture - Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA - PhilRice), show that flooding has affected about 1,800 hectares of standing rice crop across 15 municipalities and that the typhoon badly damaged buildings where harvested rice may have been stored.

Not exact matches

«What we found is that it's not a linear relationship between the nitrous oxide and the [nitrogen fertilizer] rate applied, but a nonlinear, exponential trend across many different crop types,» including corn, major grain types, rice and grasses, said study co-author Neville Millar, senior research associate with Michigan State's W.K. Kellogg Biological Station.

The WSSA researchers are planning to release similar reports across winter and spring wheats, grain sorghum, vegetable crops, rice and cotton.

After testing scores of samples taken from rice fields across the state, MSU scientists found that seed treatments are effective in managing the crop's most troublesome insect pests.

Focusing initially on five staple crops — wheat, rice, maize, sorghum and chickpea — the project seeks to empower public plant breeders to use genome - wide approaches to model plant performance in real time using tools that can be shared across diverse species and regions of the world.

Leading the charge of GR2.0 and 3.0 will be a crop of vibrant and intelligent young scientists in league with IRRI through the Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP) and spread out across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, «many of whom are attending their first International Rice Congress now,» said Zeigler, himself a plant pathologist who started young working on various crop staples.

The latter figure is just about the same amount of water that the government has allocated to the big and small towns across the basin, and to farmers who irrigate globally significant crops of rice, alfalfa, cotton, oranges, grapes, apples and vegetables.

Across the river from Vang Vieng Town, beautiful karst mountains, twist and turn around valleys of rice fields and crops.

101, no. 27 (6 July 2004), pp. 9,971 — 75; National Academy of Sciences, «Warmer Evening Temperatures Lower Rice Yields,» press release (Washington, DC: 29 June 2004); U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP), «Climate Change: Billions Across the Tropics Face Hunger and Starvation as Big Drop in Crop Yields Forecast,» press release (Nairobi: 8 November 2001); Wolfram Schlenker and Michael Roberts, «Nonlinear Temperature Effects Indicate Severe Damages to U.S. Crop Yields Under Climate Change,» Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol.