Sentences with phrase «rice crops which»

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.

Not exact matches

We are following international and national guidelines for food safety of genetically modified crops, which require assessment of the nutritional value of Golden Rice and potential toxicity and allergenicity of proteins from the new genes in it.

The primary food crop is rice, which comprises nearly 40 per cent of total crop production.

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.

The 209 hectares of rice fields on IRRI's experiment farm form a mosaic patchwork of different crop stages and varying degrees of wetland habitats, which make them a bird Keeping a healthy rice ecosystem is a target for IRRI on the farm.

Agriculture Minister Cao Duc Phat and Vice Minister Le Quoc Doanh convened a multi-stakeholder effort to refine key elements of the strategy, which includes developing rice varieties with high export value, adopting advanced crop management techniques, and more intensive use of machines and other technologies in rice farming.

While some heavily chemically - farmed soils will contain pesticide hot spots well into the future (if not forever) other soils still have low levels that can safely grow crops like rice which are known to extract arsenic.

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.

By focussing on only one crop, rice, which by itself does not provide all the nutrients we need, while eclipsing the alternative of diverse crops providing diverse nutrients, including higher quantities of vit A than Golden Rice, the Golden Rice pushers are in fact worsening the crisis of hunger and malnutritrice, which by itself does not provide all the nutrients we need, while eclipsing the alternative of diverse crops providing diverse nutrients, including higher quantities of vit A than Golden Rice, the Golden Rice pushers are in fact worsening the crisis of hunger and malnutritRice, the Golden Rice pushers are in fact worsening the crisis of hunger and malnutritRice pushers are in fact worsening the crisis of hunger and malnutrition.

Huang Dafang, a member of the biosafety committee in charge of agricultural GM organisms, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Agriculture, said that using a new generation of GM crops, such as golden rice, to achieve nutritional improvements is now a global trend.

In China, which has suffered from HSA shortages and contaminated blood supplies, the idea of using an abundant crop like rice to supplement or even supplant the current albumin supply is an attractive one.

According to Agricultural Meteorologist Dale Mohler, «The coming rains will help the soybean, rice and cotton crops in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, which have been struggling in drought and excessive heat.»

The research will also aid scientists working with other «cereal crops,» including rice, wheat, rye, maize, millet, sorghum, oats and even turfgrass, which like the other food crops, is in the grass family, Close said.

In Madagascar, for example, the most important food crops include rice, cassava, maize, sugarcane, wheat, sweet potatoes, soybean, beans, and bananas, all of which originated elsewhere.

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

But Adrian Dubock, who was not directly involved in the work but who is a Switzerland - based manager for the Golden Rice Project, which promotes the development of the engineered crop, believes most of the charges to be baseless.

So, enabling C3 crops such as wheat, rice and soy to use C4 pathways could provide similar advantages of less photorespiration, which leads to production of more biomass, yet releases less carbon into the atmosphere.

These improved crops, he noted, will not be genetically engineered but use the natural variation that is found in maize varieties, unlike rice, which has no genetic variation for provitamin A and so scientists use transgenes, or genetic engineering, to boost its provitamin A content.

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

Agriculture Minister Cao Duc Phat and Vice Minister Le Quoc Doanh convened a multi-stakeholder effort to refine key elements of the strategy, which includes developing rice varieties with high export value, adopting advanced crop management techniques, and more intensive use of machines and other technologies in rice farming.

Origin Agritech recently acquired the exclusive licence for a glyphosate - resistant gene developed by CAAS for use in soya beans, maize, cotton, rice and canola, which will compete with Monsanto's Roundup Ready crops.

GOBii, which stands for Genomic Open - source Breeding Informatics Initiative, seeks to develop a publicly accessible genomics database to enable public sector breeders to accelerate genetic gains initially to support five major staple crops: rice, maize, chickpea, sorghum, and wheat.

That is partially due to rice being one of the major crops that is grown in conditions flooded with water, which enables it to more easily absorb the arsenic through its roots and store it inside.

Nusa Lembongan due to its incompatible soil type can not cultivate rice, instead the main crop is seaweed which is farmed in beautifully colors and interesting patches, many hillside resorts overlook these incredible sights.

Influence of Lanthanum on Phosphorus Uptake and Its Chemical Fractions in Rice Crop (Oryza Sativa)[translated abstract] Xie Zubin, et al [A Chinese periodical, the name of which is untranslated](2003) http://scholar.ilib.cn/Abstract.aspx?A=zgxtxb-e200302021

When land and other resources that would have been used for a crop (e.g., corn) are diverted to another crop (e.g., switchgrass), the price of the displaced crop will tend to increase because of the decreased supply, which will in turn tend to increase the price of any substitutes for the displaced crop, such as rice for corn.

Rice has around 10 to 20 times more arsenic than other cereal crops because it is grown in flooded fields which make it much easier for arsenic to leave the soil and enter the rice, notes an article by the BBC program Trust Me I'm a DocRice has around 10 to 20 times more arsenic than other cereal crops because it is grown in flooded fields which make it much easier for arsenic to leave the soil and enter the rice, notes an article by the BBC program Trust Me I'm a Docrice, notes an article by the BBC program Trust Me I'm a Doctor.

Authors in a recent study from the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) have identified higher emissions from continuously flooded rice, compared to rice which has more frequent periods of water drainage, and a wide range of emissions for other crops due to variation in fertilizer application.

With an annual output of 700 million tons of crop stalk, i.e. non-food parts of crops that are typically discarded after crop harvest, China is eyeing its cultivation of rice, wheat, corn and other crops as a replenishable source of stalk, which can be fermented through anaerobic digestion to produce biogas.

Monsoon rains arriving later, and ending sooner than usual, is disrupting crop production and farm productivity, which, in Bhutan, mostly means rice.

The Plant Treaty, which governs the exchange of 64 vital crops — including varieties of wheat, rice, and maize — among countries, entered into force in 2004.

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.

he new ACR methodology provides an incentive to landowners in the Sacramento - San Joaquin Delta, Suisun Marsh, and other historically natural wetland areas in California to convert their most subsided and marginal agricultural lands to wetlands or to produce wetlands crops such as rice, which will stop land subsidence and reverse it over time.»

Together they covered three decades of harvests for the «big four» food crops - soya, corn, wheat and rice - which account for three - quarters of human calorie - intake.

Such an increase would also inundate much of the Mekong Delta, which produces half the rice crop in Vietnam, the world's No. 2 rice exporter.

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).

And with agriculture using about 80 % of the state's water supply, it would probably make sense to stop growing some of the most water - intensive crops like cotton and rice (which shouldn't be grown in semi-arid regions anyway).

The nearly 1,000 - page bill, which President Obama is to sign at Michigan State University on Friday, among other things expanded crop insurance for farmers by $ 7 billion over a decade and created new subsidies for rice and peanut growers that would kick in when prices drop.

The Earth Policy Institute has noted that even if the entire U.S. grain crop were converted to ethanol (leaving no domestic crop to make bread, rice, pasta, or feed the animals from which we get meat, milk, and eggs), it would satisfy at most 18 percent of U.S. automotive fuel needs.

However, in Asia, which accounts for 90 % of rice production, only a quarter of the crop is currently produced by direct seeding.