Sentences with phrase «under cultivation»

But in this present time there is no excuse whatsoever for bringing land under cultivation or pasture without knowing whether such use can be sustained.

It hopes to bring a further 40,000 hectares under cultivation by the end of 2008.

At most, we might be able to add 100 million hectares to the 4.3 billion already under cultivation worldwide.

Since the sharp rise in demand for food grains occasioned by the Soviet purchases of the early 1970s, the amount of land under cultivation in the United States has increased rapidly, and the known techniques of conservation are being widely ignored.

Bells are the most commonly grown commercial peppers in the United States, with approximately 65,000 acres under cultivation in the U.S. Mexico follows with about 22,000 acres, and most of their bells are exported to the U.S..

(Benzing - Purdie, 1992), What is known is that converting land to agricultural practices can result in substantial losses of soil carbon, and that most soils currently under cultivation in Canada have lost about 50 % of their original carbon content.

Cultivation increased a little over 13 % in 2016, but that growth brings Colombia to double the acreage under cultivation it had in 2012, its lowest point.

China wine growers beat France for second place: China overtook France last year as the world's second largest wine grower by area under cultivation as it continued to plant vast fields of mostly imported grape vines to meet growing demand...

As the quality of some agricultural lands decline with climate change and more land comes under cultivation and development (Oleson and Bindi 2002), natural and semi-natural habitat will become more threatened.

The idea is also being explored of establishing «gene parks» where crop species can be kept under cultivation (Wolf 1985, p. 134).

At the time of Christ's birth, chile peppers were already under cultivation only a thousand miles south of Albuquerque.

2.5 million: hectares under cultivation in Brazil's northeast agricultural frontier in 2013, up from 1.2 million ha in 2003, with 74 % of these new croplands taken from intact cerrado (tropical savanna) in that region

They also set optimistic limits to land that could be brought under cultivation for agriculture and to the pollution absorption capacity of the environment (p. 117).

As early as 1892, J.H. Hart, the superintendent of the Royal Botanical Gardens in Trinidad, reported: «We do not make any specific distinction between the Capsicums from here for the simple reason that they degenerate so quickly to a simple form under cultivation that we can not refer to them as more than a single species.

Currently (1988) the Sharps have about five acres of habaneros under cultivation and will soon double that as export demand for Marie Sharp's sauce increases.

Attempts at domestication of the wild plants have led to the development of the commercial chile piquín, which grows under cultivation in Mexico and Texas (some wild forms have escaped).

Today at Avery Island, the site of the original tabasco growing and manufacturing operation, there are still fields of Tabasco under cultivation — but mostly for crop improvement and seed production.

Today, more than 40,000 acres of New Mexico chiles — the further - hybridized descendants of New Mexico No. 9 — are under cultivation not only here but also in California, Arizona and Texas.

Mexico has about 37,500 acres of serranos under cultivation, compared to only 150 acres in the United States, mostly in the Southwest.

Light rocky soils erode rapidly under cultivation and are best left in permanent cover.

Pollan intertwines history, anecdote, and epiphany in this paradigm - altering view of the mutually beneficial relationships between humans and four plants that have thrived under cultivation and satisfied specific desires: apples and sweetness, tulips and beauty, marijuana and intoxication, potatoes and control.

Meanwhile, there are about 40 million acres of lawns under cultivation in the US.

That's why, for example, the mass starvation predicted by Paul Ehrlich in his Sixties bestseller The Population Bomb never happened: because thanks to Norman Borlaug's Green Revolution, crop yields dramatically increased while the area of land under cultivation remained unchanged.

A new report from the Rights and Resources Initiative starkly quantifies the amount of additional land which will have to be put under cultivation to satisfy the demands of a growing

More info after the jump!With its respectful practices in the land, Arasy also claims to be contributing to the conservation of the Guarani aquifer, located under its cultivations.

To help this, the government aims to have 1.5 million hectares of Jatropha under cultivation by that time.

A good idea of the range and variety of of the legalistic crops under cultivation can be obtained through the auspicious and freshly published Blawg Review # 100.

Substituting beans for beef would free up 42 percent of U.S. cropland currently under cultivation — a total of 1.65 million square kilometers or more than 400 million square acres, which is approximately 1.6 times the size of the state of California.

Acreage under cultivation is down by nearly 1 million acres since the drought began and farmers who are still working their fields are often paying substantially more for their water.

Mexico's representative to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Antonio Mazzitelli, told AFP that Mexico had destroyed 20,000 hectares of poppies between 2014 and 2015, which indicated the area under cultivation had increased.

Only later, after it had come under cultivation, did teosinte undergo the genetic changes that turned it into maize and a staple food crop, according to the hypothesis.

According to current projections, feeding the expected world population of over 9 billion in the year 2050 will require us to increase food output by 60 %, mostly using land already under cultivation.

Ghana has 38,000 hectares under cultivation by Sun Biofuels.

Similarly, there is less land under cultivation in Canada and many other countries now than there was in the 1930s.

She estimates that there are between six and eight firms manufacturing hot sauces in Barbados right now, and that probably a maximum of 100 acres of bonney peppers are under cultivation in many small plots to supply the hot sauce industry.

Capsicum annuum L. — According to Naudin C. longum DC., and C. grossum Willd., are not specifically distinct from this plant It is said by Clusius to have been brought by the Portuguese from Brazil to India, and reached England in 1548; and is mentioned by Gerarde as being under cultivation in his time.

More than 40,000 acres of New Mexican chiles are under cultivation in New Mexico, California, Arizona, and Texas.

New Mexico is by far the largest commercial producer of chile peppers in the United States, with about 35,000 acres under cultivation.

Pomegranate is a fruit from antiquity but for as long as it has been under cultivation, most folks no nothing about what to do with it other than decorate the table at Thanksgiving.

The pressures are clear to see: a region that has around 30,000 hectares of land under cultivation (the majority of which is under plastic), is also the

In the United States, approximately 5,500 acres is under cultivation, with Texas the leading state for jalapeño production, followed by New Mexico.

In Nigeria, approximately 150,000 acres are under cultivation of chiles of all varieties, making it the largest producer of chiles in Africa, accounting for about fifty percent of all production.

Falling yields have prompted farmers to put more land under cultivation, further eroding bee habitat.

Under the natural forest - cover the soils work up a fair store of organic matter with adequate capillarity; under cultivation they lose structure, organic matter and the power to conduct water.

This corn - centric agriculture is displacing wheat and other crops, dramatically increasing grain and food prices, and keeping land under cultivation that would otherwise be returned to wildlife habitat.