Sentences with phrase «rice harvest»

I know that wild rice harvest is getting very close!

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.

The road winds through verdant rice fields and past volcanoes, where the traffic and crowds (Java is the most populated island in the world, with some 124 million people) are at odds with the pastoral beauty of rice harvesting.

As the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets continue to shrink, sea levels will rise, threatening rice harvests around the globe.

Harlan Weikle of Greener Magazine has posted an article (Dec 5) about Asian rice harvests threatened by pollution, and a Nov 26 article and NPR link honoring three women who are environmental activists.

Amanda Johnson uses leftover chicken or turkey, and wild rice harvested nearby, to make this lovely soup.

Lombardy is home to the best rice - growing area, the Lomellina, while Piedmonte and Veneto also have abundant rice harvests.

There are no limitations, except export sale, on the use of Golden Rice harvest, which can be locally sold, or replanted by growers.

These findings are on the one hand relevant for the risk assessment of the transgenic plants: once released, these plants could spread to other rice varieties and endanger rice harvest.

Harnessing these genes to develop crops that are better equipped to resist infection by fungi, bacteria, and other pathogens could reduce the need for pesticides and help ensure more reliable rice harvests around the world.

You'll be taught about ancient rice harvesting and planting methods and also all about threshing and winnowing rice.

This is not because California's rice farmers are more skilled than their Japanese counterparts but because Japan's rice harvest grows mostly during the monsoon season, when there is extensive cloud cover, while California's rice fields bask in bright sunlight.

Often referred to as «The Rice Capital of America» this city is a major center for rice harvesting and milling as well a place where crawfish farming is popular.

A raja decrees that the villagers must give most of the rice they harvest to him.

The Children's Club for children from 3 - 15 years offers a range of activities and entertainment around Cambodian culture, including arts, crafts, temple tours and rice harvesting.

Prior to Hurricane Katrina, the two largest events in terms of total damage were Hurricane Andrew in 1992, which took down 60,000 homes and racked up $ 30 billion worth of damage, and the flooding of China's Yangtze River basin in 1998, which also cost an estimated $ 30 billion, a sum comparable to the value of China's rice harvest.

Such a rise would sharply reduce the rice harvest in Asia, home to over half the world's people.

These two countries also dominate the world's rice harvest.

The value of India's dairy production now exceeds that of its rice harvest.

The wheat and rice harvests of China and India would be directly affected.

For people living in Indonesia, the failure of a rice harvest can have serious consequences.