Sentences with phrase «rice crops»

This study only narrowly looks at the uptake of arsenic from soil by brown rice crops used in organic production (as an alternative to high fructose corn syrup).

But thanks to the time honored rice harvesting traditions of Thai rice farmers, many of the less prevalent but still incredibly important rice crop varieties remain intact.

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Aiming to help farmers adapt their rice farming practices to climate change, the CLUES project (Climate change affecting land use in the Mekong Delta: Adaptation of rice cropping systems) could not have come at a better time.

Today I am still learning what farmers need to grow good rice crops in Bangladesh.

Experts from the UK and Brazil have found the first evidence that ancient South Americans learned how to grow bigger rice crops with larger grains, but this expertise may have been lost after 1492 when the indigenous population was decimated, research shows.

On the other hand CH4 is produced mostly indirectly, for example, in growing rice crops or in draining out water for peat lands.

Preserving Rice Crops For Future Generations The Karen People seems to practice careful measure to ensure the diversity of interesting crops of rice.

The evidence of the success of early rice farmers on the vast wetlands near the Guaporé River in Rondônia state, Brazil, could help modern day plant breeders develop rice crops which are less susceptible to disease and more adaptable to the effects of climate change than the Asian varieties.

IRRI develops new rice varieties and rice crop management techniques that help rice farmers improve the yield and quality of their rice in an environmentally sustainable way.

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.

Other regional activities that are taking advantage of the IRRC umbrella are the Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP), initiatives on Good Agricultural Practices for rice (Rice GAP), new projects on rice cropping systems in Myanmar, and linkages with the Agricultural Competitiveness Project of the World Bank in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam.

Lynas's post in Slate, «The True Story About Who Destroyed a Genetically Modified Rice Crop,» is essential reading if you care about ending malnutrition and want to try to retain at least a shred of reality in discussions of the role of technology in creating healthy societies on a still - thriving planet.

In addition, the latest research actually documents with irrefutable evidence that rice crop yield benefits from both warmer temperatures and higher CO2 levels.

In 2013, rice crops produced in Hunan Province were found to be heavily tainted by cadmium, a toxic metal linked to kidney failure and skeletal problems.

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) has applauded the Thai Sustainable Planthopper initiative to restrict the use of two types of insecticides that are a major cause of outbreaks of brown planthoppers, which are devastating rice crops across Thailand.

For Lance, that means rotating rice crops with cover crops that add more nitrogen to the soil.

The Philippine rice crop was also hammered by floods as two back — to — back typhoons hit the country's major rice growing region before the crop could be harvested.

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 impacts.

The golden rice crop that was sabotaged was the third such planting in the same site since March 2012.

Other factors also contribute to pest outbreaks such as excessive fertilizer which creates luxuriant crops for the hoppers to feed on and continuous rice cropping that doesn't allow for a break in the food supply of the pests.

Most of the United States» wild rice crop is grown in and around Minnesota, which may have something to do with the wild rice soup being on special at a restaurant on the Minnesota border.

RiceBran Technologies updates progress on this year's Sacramento Valley rice crop.

But with companies like Lotus Foods working to use less water to produce higher yielding, terroir - driven rice crops and Growing Naturals creating a creamy, rich powdered version of rice milk, rice is starting to appear in interesting, new applications.

Climate change has made nights warmer in India over the past decade, an ominous sign for the nation's vital rice crop

Similarly, Italy says durum wheat from the IARCs contributes $ 300 million a year to its pasta production, while one - fifth of the value of the billion - dollar American rice crop is attributed to genes from the centres.

Later, comparing samples of multiple species of rice grown in numerous regions around the world, he found arsenic levels almost universally elevated, including in the U.S. Notably, much of the U.S. rice crop is grown in regions of the South where the soil is contaminated by old arsenic - based pesticides, once used by farmers to protect cotton crops from boll weevils.

The finding of submergence - specific genes should greatly accelerate the pace of breeding optimal rice crops, he says.

The Long - Term Continuous Cropping Experiment (LTCCE) marked its 150th rice cropping season, making it one of the longest running agricultural experiments in the world, and the most exciting.

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.

The increase in rice cropping intensity and in the adoption of modern rice varieties regenerated growth in production.

At 1:10 in the afternoon of 31 July 2008, ignoring the advice of his neighbors, Mr. Pal made the decision not to plow under his severely ravaged and sick - looking rice crop.

Musta been what happened at the PETM — we can look forward to an Azolla swamp summers at the North Pole (which we can harvest to fertilize rice crops — fixes Nitrogen), and megafauna extinctions.

Rice (a C3 crop) and barnyard grass (Echinochloa crusgalli L.)(a C4 weed) were grown in a 1:1 mixture in a paddy field in ambient condition and with supplemented free air carbon dioxide enrichment (FACE, CO2concentration + 200 μmol mol − 1), in order to evaluate the impact of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide on nutrient competition between rice crop and weed.

Record coffee crops, record rice crops, record general grain crops and now record wheat harvest — all in «The Hottest Year Evah»!?

Research scientists are coming to the aid of 300 million people along the River Ganges who face a hungry future because their staple rice crop is threatened by climate change.

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

The food riots overseas were about a short rice crop in Australia and environs and had NOTHING to do with ethanol or biodiesel.

That's why we have prioritized creating shared benefits for rice growers and the environment, while also producing a high - quality rice crop for the billions of people who depend on it for nutrition and a livelihood,» said Denis Winkler, vice president of supply chain for global Mars Food.

Rice Crop Manager was developed by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) as a product of a research collaboration with the Department of Agriculture - Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA - PhilRice).

Yet the majority of rice crops that supply 90 percent of the world come from just two domesticated varieties, japonica and indica.

Rice crops with more arsenic content are grown in fields that have been previously sprayed with arsenic - based chemical pesticides.

Climate activist Mark Lynas has also written a hard - hitting piece about this matter: The True Story About Who Destroyed a Genetically Modified Rice Crop.

Resistance to the sheath blight pathogen exists, but is partial only, with possibly two forms: traits that confer some level of partial physiological resistance, and traits that confer a morphology of the rice plant such that the disease does not spread easily in a growing rice crop.

Some species of Anabaena, which can be found worldwide, have been successfully used to provide nitrogen to rice crops in flooded paddy fields.

However, the waters have already done serious damage to Thailand's rice crop that provides the largest part of internationally traded rice.