Sentences with phrase «under cultivation for»

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).

Not exact matches

Vayalar, which comes under the Shertallai taluk is blessed with sandy soil, which is good for coconut cultivation.

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.

Under the STRASA project, two flood - tolerant rice varieties, BRRI dhan51 (Swarna - Sub1) and BRRI dhan52 (BR11 - Sub1), were released in Bangladesh for commercial cultivation in 2010.

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.

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.

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

However, rather than implying a swift liberalisation of illicit drugs, Sefatian suggested another direction: re-introducing the cultivation of plants such as poppy and cannabis under state supervision; legalisation of cannabis and opium use under specific circumstances outlined by ad hoc laws, for instance, only in private places and for opium — as he told me — only for people above a certain age.

A source told our correspondent that the victims were among the 10 persons who had gone to assess farmland for rice cultivation under the umbrella of -LSB-...]

This whole medicinal pot issue is a little thorny, since marijuana is illegal under federal law — period, end of story, even in states that have passed legislation or ballot initiatives making the drug legal for use by people who are sick, those individuals are still subject to arrest by federal officials for possession or cultivation.

While the USDA Plant Epidemiology and Risk Analysis Laboratory lists the giant reed as highly invasive, it was approved for cultivation under the renewable fuel standard (RFS), administered by U.S. EPA.

Under her guidance, the foundation launched and refined new strategic priorities, focusing its $ 115 million grant budget on improvements in urban education for economically disadvantaged children, protection of the water resources serving 15 million people across four states, development of world - class urban parks and trails in underserved communities and cultivation of a vibrant cultural sector.

Luntz explicitly emphasized uncertainty as a justification for inaction, perhaps we're seeing the further cultivation of uncertainty, in a greenhouse under skilled hands.

«Industrial Hemp Development Act»; providing for state economy and agricultural industry promotion of industrial hemp by permitting regulated industrial hemp industry development; authorizing industrial hemp as an agricultural product; placing enforcement under commissioner of agriculture; authorizing regulated and lawful industrial hemp agriculture and commercial sales; requiring licensure for cultivation; specifying licensee requirements, compliance and notification requirements; requiring commissioner to promulgate certain rules; requiring fee credit to the industrial hemp account and establishing the account in the agricultural fund; establishing an affirmative defense for possession of marijuana; exempting industrial hemp from the marijuana and wild hemp definitions.

SF 826 «Industrial Hemp Development Act»; providing for state economy and agricultural industry promotion of industrial hemp by permitting regulated industrial hemp industry development; authorizing industrial hemp as an agricultural product; placing enforcement under commissioner of agriculture; authorizing regulated and lawful industrial hemp agriculture and commercial sales; requiring licensure for cultivation; specifying licensee requirements, compliance and notification requirements; requiring commissioner to promulgate certain rules; requiring fee credit to the industrial hemp account and establishing the account in the agricultural fund; establishing an affirmative defense for possession of marijuana; exempting industrial hemp from the marijuana and wild hemp definitions.

The joint study, published by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) under the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), models the global suitability of arabica cultivation to see how production will be affected in 2050.

Cultivation of the arabica coffee plant, staple of daily caffeine fixes and economic lifeline for millions of small farmers, is under threat from climate change as rising temperatures and new rainfall patterns limit the areas where it can be grown, researchers have warned.

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 BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 2 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to agriculture, so as to provide for industrial hemp cultivation; to provide for definitions; to provide for procedures, conditions, and limitations; to amend Chapter 12 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to offenses against public health and morals, so as to provide for the possession of industrial hemp under certain circumstances; to provide for definitions; to provide for penalties; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Are «historical acres under cultivation» in Europe and the Middle East a proxy for temperature?

Yet U.S. food production over the same time has also risen by robust percentages even as the number of acres under cultivation has been steadily falling for decades.»

Grasslands are also under threat from cultivation for biofuel crops, from subsidized carbon credit forests, and from the remorseless encroachment of fire - prone government reserves and pest havens.

The 10 - page report explains that beef production is basically a terrible way to use land — and trading in beef for beans 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.»

Grasslands are also under threat from cultivation for biofuel crops, from subsidised carbon credit forests and from the remorseless encroachment of fire - prone government reserves and pest havens.

The limitations in the literature on the relationships between character strengths and mindfulness lead the authors to call for a more systematic investigation to «clarify whether (and under what conditions) mindfulness is a causal agent in the cultivation of strengths, virtues, and well - being.»