Sentences with phrase «rice crop yield»

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With the global population rising continuously, urbanization rapidly reducing land for farming, and climate change threatening stable crop production, a significant improvement in genetic yield potential is one of the most crucial goals in rice research.

This research on Golden Rice will ensure that any approved Golden Rice varieties will grow just like other rice crops, with comparable yields and pest resistance, and with the same environmental impaRice will ensure that any approved Golden Rice varieties will grow just like other rice crops, with comparable yields and pest resistance, and with the same environmental impaRice varieties will grow just like other rice crops, with comparable yields and pest resistance, and with the same environmental imparice crops, with comparable yields and pest resistance, and with the same environmental impacts.

In 1985, Vietnam achieved self - sufficiency in rice and then went on to continue to increase its production due to supportive government policies, and its adoption of better crop management strategies and new high - yielding rice varieties.

«The use of the Rice Crop Manager will hopefully bring an increase in yield or productivity, and also raise the income of farmers by about Php 4,000 per crop per hectare,» said Dr. Manny Regalado, acting deputy director for research at the Department of Agriculture - Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA - PhilRiCrop Manager will hopefully bring an increase in yield or productivity, and also raise the income of farmers by about Php 4,000 per crop per hectare,» said Dr. Manny Regalado, acting deputy director for research at the Department of Agriculture - Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA - PhilRicrop per hectare,» said Dr. Manny Regalado, acting deputy director for research at the Department of Agriculture - Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA - PhilRice).

The increased yields obtained through IRRI technologies can help rice farmers to free up land area to raise other nutritious crops and animals.

Since 1966, three consecutive crops of high - yielding rice varieties have been grown annually during most years.

Research in Jakenan, Central Java found three drought - tolerant potential rice varieties from IRRI with high - yield potential that are suitable for the second crop — IR68833, IR68836, and S3376e.

Then there was exciting news from India's poorest state, Bihar (pop 100 million, and 50 % of families in poverty), where the application of what's called the System of Rice / Root Intensification (SRI) has «dramatically increased yields with wheat, potatoes, sugar cane, yams, tomatoes, garlic, aubergine and many other crops», according to the Guardian newspaper.

So, rice varieties must have higher yield potential and crop management techniques have to help achieve this potential.

With this year's crop resulting in massive yields, the rice bran business continues to grow.

Such no - till farming provides a double benefit for farmers: improved soils and reduced fuel use, because it negates the need to harvest the stalks with tractors and other equipment (although it can lead to short - term reductions in crop yields) says Chuck Rice, a soil scientist at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan..

The rice loss is particularly strong during the dry season, the higher yielding of the year's two crops.

After an 11 - year inquiry, a group of Asian and American researchers found a 10 percent drop in rice - crop yields for every increase in nighttime temperatures of 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit.

The first high - yield seed varieties were wheat, which is a temperate - zone crop, and paddy rice, which is an irrigation - based technology.

It also implies that the apparent loss of genetic diversity following the introduction of high - yielding Green Revolution wheat and rice varieties in the 1960s and 1970s, and attending the rapid adoption of superior GM crops today, is far from a new phenomenon.

There is actually an estimate that for major crops like wheat, rice and maize, that every degree Celsius rise in temperature above current temperatures could potentially decrease crop yields by between 3 - 7 % due to thermal stress.

Sanchez later led a project in Peru that dramatically increased rice yields and headed a center in Kenya that upgrades soil, and thus expands food production, by planting nitrogen - fixing trees in crop fields.

The new findings obtained by CSHL Professor David Jackson and colleagues may have important implications for efforts to boost yields of essential food crops such as corn and rice.

Dr. Shabala and his colleagues note that recent research on salt bladders creates the exciting possibility of modifying genes in traditional crops such as wheat or rice to allow them to develop salt bladders without a major impact on their growth and yield.

Likewise, in economically important cereal crops such as maize, rice, and wheat (Triticum aestivum), precision engineering of localized BR biosynthesis and signaling can be harnessed to fine - tune plant development and generate high - yielding crop ideotypes (Vriet et al., 2012).

Through our global partnerships, PPI aims to develop and commercialize high yielding agri - crops such as corn, soybean, rice, cotton and wheat.

CIAT's big data operation has yielded game - changing discoveries for the Colombian rice industry — solutions that can easily be scaled up and broadened to include other crops.

Assuming that bacterial blight epidemic occurs in 10 % of the time over the production area, the yield gain is estimated to be 0.8 million metric tons of paddy rice per cropping season in India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and China.

The Department of Agriculture and IRRI launched the Rice Crop Manager (RCM), a free mobile phone service that allows Filipino farmers and extension workers easy access to information to help reduce fertilizer waste and ensure rice crops have enough nutrients to reach their yield potential.This program is available in five local languages — Bicolano, Ilokano, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, and TagaRice Crop Manager (RCM), a free mobile phone service that allows Filipino farmers and extension workers easy access to information to help reduce fertilizer waste and ensure rice crops have enough nutrients to reach their yield potential.This program is available in five local languages — Bicolano, Ilokano, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, and Tagarice crops have enough nutrients to reach their yield potential.This program is available in five local languages — Bicolano, Ilokano, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, and Tagalog.

Much work remains to be done to distinguish and quantify the contribution of both kinds of genetic traits, and their degree of possible combination — yet, success in this should lead to high - yielding, sheath blight - unfavorable and partially resistant rice crops.

By breeding staple crops such as wheat, rice, maize, and soy to be more pest - and weed - resistant, more nutrient - rich and high - yielding, they hope to offer more nutrition per acre of farmed land.

As with other high yield crops like rice, meant to feed large groups of people on the cheap, domesticated crops are chosen to be grown in mass often leaving the crop's biodiversity in jeopardy.

Without adaptation, local temperature increases of 1 °C or more above pre-industrial levels are projected to negatively impact yields for the major crops (wheat, rice, and maize) in tropical and temperate regions, although individual locations may benefit (medium confidence).

Tripling rice yields, and increasing 75 % for maize and other crops.

Andy, check the data at FAOstat: crop yields are higher in warmer countries than in cold, cane sugar and rice can not even be grown in Scotland, and despite alleged global warming crop yields have increased hugely everywhere since the FAO data sets begin in 1960.

The Mail on Sunday says the Summary warns of negative impacts on crop yields, with warming responsible for lower yields of wheat, maize, soya and rice.

In fact the Summary says that negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts, with wheat and maize yields negatively affected in many regions and effects on rice and soybean yields smaller in major production regions.

Li, T., T. Hasegawa, X. Yin, Y. Zhu, K. Boote, M. Adam, S. Bregaglio, S. Buis, R. Confalonieri, T. Fumoto, D. Gaydon, M. Marcaida, III, H. Nakagawa, P. Oriol, A.C. Ruane, F. Ruget, B. Singh, U. Singh, L. Tang, F. Tao, P. Wilkens, H. Yoshida, Z. Zhang, and B. Bouman, 2015: Uncertainties in predicting rice yield by current crop models under a wide range of climatic conditions.

Crop ecologists have a rule of thumb that each 1 - degree - Celsius rise in temperature above the norm during the growing season lowers wheat, rice, and corn yields by 10 percent.

SciDev.net: China and India, the world's two most populous countries, are beset by stagnation in the production of staples like rice, wheat, soybean and maize (corn), says a new study on crop yield growth.

Maize and wheat yields will fall by up to 5 per cent in India; rice crops in China will drop by up to 12 per cent.

Observed data and many studies indicate that a warming climate has a negative effect to crop production, generally reduce yields of staple cereals such as wheat, rice and maize, which, however, differs between regions and latitudes.

Crop yields from experimental field plots of irrigated rice dropped by 10 percent with a 1 - degree - Celsius rise in temperature.

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.

In northern India, for example, winter wheat with a summer rice crop is the dominant high - yielding combination.

The authors find that, without adaptation, projected corn, rice and wheat production is reduced when areas experience 2.0 °C or more of local warming and that crop - level adaptations are projected to be able to increase yields when compared to similar scenarios that do not utilize adaptation.

So too will be the people who starve as global warming diminishes crop yields of the world's three staples — corn, rice, and wheat.

Regarding crop yield declines for rice, previously research on rice grown in Asia has shown that for every 1 °C increase in minimum nighttime temperatures crop yields declined 10 %.

New research published in Nature Climate Change shows that as the world warms it both increases the methane emissions from rice paddies, and decreases the crop yield of rice (something which TreeHugger has previously covered).

The report says that draining rice paddies in mid-season and using different fertilizers can reduce methane emissions, while switching to more heat - tolerant varieties of rice can offset crop yield declines.

China's double cropped rice annually yields 8 tons per hectare.

The government quickly adopted several key production - boosting measures, including a 40 percent rise in the grain support price paid to farmers, an increase in agricultural credit, and heavy investment in developing higher - yielding strains of wheat, rice, and corn, their leading crops.

These are incorporated based upon prior work using (1) the surface ozone response to methane emissions changes from two global composition - climate models, (2) the impact of ozone on yields of four staple crops, wheat, maize, soy and rice, based on the methodology of Van Dingenen et al. (2009), and (3) their valuation using world market prices, as described in Shindell et al. (2012a).