Sentences with phrase «rice yields»

From 1990 to 2004, rice yield in these regions expanded annually at 3.5 %.

More hybrid rice varieties are now becoming available that allow farmers to significantly raise rice yields and thus overall rice productivity and profitability.

How much does the 1/2 cup of rice yield after boiling?

Just one cup of rice (165 grams) of cooked rice yields 190 calories, 43 carbs and little bit of fat.

IRRC also promotes alternate wetting and drying (AWD) technology through Closing rice yield gaps in Asia with reduced environmental footprints or CORIGAP.

Closing rice yield gaps in Asia with reduced environmental footprints (CORIGAP) is a project implemented under the Irrigated Rice Research Consortium (IRRC).

Shaobing Peng et al., «Rice Yields Decline with Higher Night Temperature from Global Warming,» Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol.

Higher night temperatures during the ripening stage also decrease rice yield and grain quality.

TheIrrigated Rice Research Consortium (IRRC) developed 3CT to reduce chemical fertilizer and pesticide use while increasing rice yields by up to 20 %.

The rice that Mr. Pal planted, a new variety that had the SUB1 gene for flood - tolerance, recovered to yield 4.5 tons — the global average rice yield per hectare.

The objective of this collaboration with ACI is to facilitate higher rice yields, better quality, climate - change — tolerant varieties, and improved sustainability of rice production in Bangladesh.»

Resequencing 50 accessions of cultivated and wild rice yields markers for identifying agronomically important genes Xu, X., X. Liu, S. Ge, J. D. Jensen et al. 2012.

Resequencing 50 accessions of cultivated and wild rice yields markers for identifying agronomically important genes.

Engineering other strains to include the «snorkel» genes could help rice yields.

Increasing CO2 levels will also boost rice yields, but to a smaller extent then CH4 emissions.

The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), for instance, reported that IRRI's work resulted in rice yields of up to 13 % between 1985 and 2009 across three Southeast Asian countries.

When cooked using the absorption method, medium - grain rice yields a tender, starchy, slightly creamy kernel that's ideal for saucy rice dishes like this one.

Moreover, as the Philippines was an early adopter of the first modern rice varieties developed by IRRI in the 1960s, it had already enjoyed major increases in rice yields before 1985.

The report mentioned that over this time and directly due to IRRI's contributions rice yields in Vietnam increased by 9.8 % in southern Vietnam in the Mekong River Delta, which produces more than 50 % of Vietnam's rice.

However, since the 1970s, rice yield potential had stagnated, particularly in tropical indica rice cultivars.

The astonishing rice yield increases the country has achieved in the last two decades are a tribute to a nation committed to undertaking rice research matched to farmers» and consumers» needs.

Rice yield subsequently rose to 4.3 tons per hectare in 2012 from 1.7 tons per hectare in 1970.

These new facilities are enhancing IRRI's capacity to increase rice yields against a backdrop of agricultural production pressures and a growing global population.

World - record rice yields of 22.4 tonnes per hectare have been achieved — with no GMOs, and no herbicides.

A fact sheet from Sunrice boasts that «Australian rice yields of 10 tonnes per hectare are the highest I the world».

Fluff and serve.A rice cooker may be used with the same water - to - rice ratio.1 cup raw rice yields 3 cups cooked rice.Use in any rice dish or cuisine, from savory to sweet.

So far, rice yields outside the lab aren't falling yet — farmers are clever, Cassman says, and keep finding ways to improve output.

He started studying Bali's subaks three decades ago to learn how they consistently produced good rice yields without modern inputs like pesticides.

Armed with the new knowledge, the researchers were able to breed submergence - resistant plants that still produced decent rice yields, the team reports 10 August in Nature.

Arsenic in irrigation water can also affect rice yields.

Irrigated rice yields in Africa are often comparable to yields obtained in Asia, but there is a need for improved, high - yielding varieties, resistant to major environmental stresses, pests and diseases.

In 2007, average rice yield topped 3.8 tons per hectare and in 2008, was at 3.77 tons per hectare.

In 2009, Philippine rice yields were lower than the previous two years due to the damage done by the tropical storms «Ondoy» and «Pepeng».

The need for such a research facility was due to the instability of deepwater rice yields that are then sprawled across 9 million hectares of land.

As several readers have pointed out in comments on my previous post, and several more by e-mail, I made a schoolboy howler in this week's article about how rice yields are responding to temperature rise in Asia.

Japan's rice yields plateaued in the late 1990s at just below 5 tons per hectare.

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Rising temperatures were found to have only small effects on CH4 emissions, but because they decrease rice yield, they also increase the amount of CH4 emitted per kilogram of rice.

The IRRC continues as a partnership mechanism in GRiSP and serves as a platform for several projects, including the Closing Rice Yield Gaps in Asia with Reduced Environmental Footprint (CORIGAP).

Closing rice yield gaps in Asia with reduced environmental footprint CORIGAP is a project under the Irrigated Rice Research Consortium (IRRC).

As they provide farmers with protection against short - term flooding and serve as a type of «insurance policy,» farmers can feel reassured and invest in agricultural inputs such as fertilizer, leading to higher rice yields.

The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) assessed the impact of IRRI's research on improving rice varietal yield between 1985 and 2009 and found a boost in rice yield by up to 13 %.

Average rice yield in the Philippines is also higher than of Thailand's, the world's biggest exporter of rice, where yields over the last few years have been around 3 tons per hectare.