Sentences with phrase «soybean planting areas»
The notice released by the Changchun agriculture committee on April 28 said that increasing soybean planting areas «is the primary political mission of agricultural production.»
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«Soybean is the fifth largest crop in the world in terms of both crop area planted and amount harvested,» says the project's lead, University of Adelaide researcher Associate Professor Matthew Gilliham.
A single giant ragweed plant can reduce the yield in an area holding 30 soybean plants by as much as half.
Myers said the shift to technified coffee production changed the process to look more like traditional large wheat or soybean farms in the United States as opposed to allowing coffee plants to grow in smaller shaded areas.
By the 1998 growing season, it was estimated that genetically altered crops planted in the U.S. — including tomatoes, squash, cotton, canola, corn, soybeans, rapeseed and potatoes — covered an area the size of Scotland.
(On a personal note, I live in an area where soybeans are grown, and have witnessed first hand how much the soybeans are sprayed during their growth and how harmful these chemicals are to other plants and vegetation)
By the year 2020, 100 Mha of Brazil Amazonia forest will have disappeared if deforestation rates continue as in 2002/03, and the soybean - planted area in South America could reach 59 Mha, representing 57 % of the world's soybean production.
Based on a decade of research at the Cedar Creek Natural History Area, a 2200 - hectare experimental ecological reserve operated by the University of Minnesota, Tilman said that diverse mixtures of plants that mimic the native prairie ecosystem are a better source of biofuels than corn ethanol or soybean biodiesel.