Sentences with phrase «sugarcane crop»

Introduced to Australia in 1935 to control beetles that were devouring sugarcane crops, the poisonous predators (native to South America) have been spreading unchecked.

The cotton fields and sugarcane crops look absolutely gorgeous, but people are still being whipped to harvest them; this juxtaposition of aesthetic beauty and moral cruelty is part of the back - and - forth the movie puts you through.

Not exact matches

After his Ph.D. work on Panama disease, Brandes became an expert on tropical crops, particularly sugarcane (3,7).

SFC also has used dasheen — a root crop of sugarcane that extracts nutrients from the soil and liquid in which it is placed — in its aquaculture research.

As in many other crop species, genetically modified (GM) varieties of sugarcane are forecast to improve profitability by reducing input costs, increasing sucrose yield or introducing novel products.

The other, a wild relative of sugarcane (Saccharum spontaneum), provides hardiness to harsh environments and the ability to ratoon or produce additional profitable crops from re-growth after harvest.

Sugarcane is grown in a range of environments from northern New South Wales to far north Queensland and is a major export crop for Australia.

Sugarcane thrives on marginal land that is not suited to many food crops.

The U.S. is drunk on ethanol — but whether it is made from corn or sugarcane, the crop - derived biofuel raises a host of questions

By turning crops such as corn, sugarcane and palm oil into biofuels — whether ethanol, biodiesel, or something else — proponents hope to reap the benefits of the carbon soaked up as the plants grow to offset the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted when the resulting fuel is burned.

The digital sugarcane, described earlier this year by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana — Champaign, illustrates how crops in silicomight aid farmers.

That will include inedible components of Hawaiian crops, such as macadamia nuts and sugarcane, as well as guinea grass and eucalyptus.

Compared to traditional biofuel crops like corn and sugarcane, aspens require minimal care; they also can be grown in areas where food crops can not grow.

While both can be obtained from petroleum or natural gas, ethanol may be the most interesting because many believe it to be a renewable resource, easily obtained from sugar or starch in crops and other agricultural produce such as grain, sugarcane or even lactose.

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.

Mexico is in the middle - ground due to the continued popularity in local diets of crops like maize and beans, two plants native to the region, alongside sugarcane (with origins in Southeast and South Asia) and wheat.

Its typical diet features crops from Central America and Mexico (including maize, cassava, and beans), South and Southeast Asia (sugarcane, rice, and bananas, and plantains), the South and East Mediterranean (wheat), tropical South America (cassava and groundnut), and Andean South America (potatoes and beans).

Cereals and many other important crops such as coffee, sugarcane, and soybean are impacted by these devastating pathogens.

Although peccaries previously emerged from the national park to raid corn crops, Cunha contends that the sugarcane now allows them to survive year round outside its borders.

Environmentalists have also become critical of using corn, sugarcane and other agricultural crops because they typically need lots of fresh water, fossil fuel — rich fertilizer and land to grow.

He also rules out soybeans and grasses and even sugarcane in places such as Brazil because rain forests are being destroyed solely to grow the fuel crop.

The work was performed in Setaria viridis, an emerging model system for grasses that is closely related to economically important cereal crops and bioenergy feed stocks such as maize, sorghum, switchgrass and sugarcane.

This grass can serve as a simple model for research, standing in for grass relatives such as corn, rice and sugarcane to explore a similar relationship in those crops.

Other targets announced by Rousseff include 12 million hectares of reforestation, 5 million hectares of crops - livestock - forestry integration, the end of illegal deforestation, and meeting 45 % of the country's energy needs with renewables — up from a 40 % share today — largely thanks to hydroelectricity and sugarcane ethanol.

Traditional biofuels such as bioethanol are made from food crops like corn and sugarcane that require prime agricultural land — a commodity in relatively short supply.

The new study estimates land available for growing biofuels — crops such as corn or sugarcane that can be converted to fuels - at between 56 and 1035 million hectares, compared to previous estimates of 320 to 1411 million hectares.

Sugarcane has brought wealth to the world's last absolute monarchy, but climate change spells an uncertain future for this thirsty crop

Bioethanol can be derived responsibly from crops such as corn, soybeans, sugarcane and switchgrass.

The small towns of Bellavista and Santa Rosa were established in the humid highlands, where farmers raised cattle and planted crops such as avocados, coffee, sugarcane, bananas, oranges, and lemons.

Cotton and sugarcane are the most water - thirsty crops.

Biofuels from food crops today — such as maize, vegetable oils, and sugarcane — provide about 2.5 percent of the world's transportation fuel.

LEGO has started purchasing sugarcane from Brazil — but Brooks said the company ensured it's being grown on agricultural land, «so we're not chopping down rainforest to grow the crop.»

Biofuels: Bioethanol is an alcohol based biofuel, typically produced from starch and sugar crops such as wheat and sugarcane, which is blended with petrol for use in motor vehicles.

New sugarcane fields in Brazil nearly always replace pasture land or less valuable crops and are concentrated around production facilities in the developed southeastern region, far from the Amazon.

The next generation of bioenergy technology aims to replace current feedstocks such as corn, sorghum, sugarcane, rapeseed, soy, and oil palm with dedicated cellulosic crops (Kszos et al. 2000; Heaton et al. 2008b), such as woody tree species and the grasses switchgrass (Panacum vergatum) and miscanthus (Miscanthus x giganteus)(Lewandowski et al. 2000).

(Note that the study did not look at first generation biofuels made from tropical crops like sugarcane or sweet sorghum which reduce emissions far more than corn ethanol; for sugarcane ethanol, the reduction is as large as that of cellulosic biofuels, earlier post.)

Sugarcane - based biofuel, an approach favored by other big biofuel producers like Brazil, offers greater energy efficiency and is made with a crop that can be grown in unused lands in many tropical countries, contributing to their development, he told reporters.

Faced with a seemingly insatiable demand for automotive fuel, farmers will want to clear more and more of the remaining tropical forests to produce sugarcane, oil palms, and other high - yielding biofuel crops.