Sentences with phrase «value crops»

A shift in cultivation areas of high value crops, such as grapes for wine, may also occur.

The renewed soil allows farmers to plant and grow higher value crops.

High - value crops such as vegetables, citrus fruits, grapes and apricots can by grown in the Middle East if 5,000 to 8,000 cubic meters of water (about 1.7 million gallons) per hectare (2.47 acres) are provided each year.

Since Bojangle's shares rose a sizzling 25 % on its first day as a public company on May 8, the stock has plunged about 43 %, part of a broader sell - off in the once richly valued crop of new restaurant IPOs from 2015.

QAI's program helps lower these barriers and facilitates the transition of farmland to organic and allows for premium pricing for the higher value crop allowing consumers to support the conversion of more organic products.

This enables more frequent harvests of high - value crops like vegetables rather than grains.

Vertical farming could have a place for high value crops in cities, but would not be a solution to the additional food projected to be needed.»

Omega - 3 canola will provide new opportunities for improving human nutrition, reducing pressure on fishery resources worldwide, and will provide Australian grain growers with new, high - value crops.

For example, robots still have a tougher time performing selective harvesting and precision maintenance of high - value crops.

Subsidies encourage them to produce the low - value crops.

In California, the issue of water supply has pitted farmers against city dwellers and environmentalists, who claim that the farmers waste most of their water on low - value crops and inefficient irrigation systems.

Because much of that land is unsuitable for high value crops, most of the additional food produced would include high - calorie crops like corn and soybeans.

«So you have to raise really high - value crops and look for niche markets.»

«There is great interest in (LEDs) potential to influence the phytochemical and flavor profile of various high - value crops,» the authors said.

Researchers at private agricultural firms tend to focus on creating better varieties of widely - grown, high - value crops, such as wheat and corn.

Tomatoes are among the highest - value crops in the world.

As an experienced urban farmer, Stone teaches how to be profitable while minimizing risk and growing high - yield, high - value crops.

Some of these products include foliar applied fertilizers for high value crops and pharmaceutical grade chelates used in mineral supplements and food for humans.

The Urban Farmer is a comprehensive, hands - on, practical manual to help you learn the techniques and business strategies you need to make a good living growing high - yield, high - value crops right in your own backyard (or someone else's).

The Urban Farmer is a comprehensive, hands - on, practical manual to help you learn the techniques and business strategies you need to make a good living growing high - yield, high - value crops right in your own backyard (or someone else's).

There's not much farmers can do to protect themselves from this type of damage in the short term, other than perhaps setting up warming systems for high - value crops.

Several trends are converging to reduce the grain area, including the loss of irrigation water, desert expansion, the conversion of cropland to nonfarm uses, the shift to higher - value crops, and a decline in double - cropping due to the loss of farm labor in the more prosperous coastal provinces.

Some high - value crops, like corn and soybeans, that can mainly be grown in the

Some high - value crops, like corn and soybeans, that can mainly be grown in the U.S., will be grown more commonly in Canada, Mendelsohn says.

Extensive conservation and efficiency measures will be needed, reshaping urban water use, improving irrigation methods, and cutting back on the region's lowest - value crops, which are worth less than the water used to grow them.

The Urban Farmer is a comprehensive, hands - on, practical manual to help you learn the techniques and business strategies you need to make a good living growing high - yield, high - value crops right in your own backyard (or someone else's).

The Urban Farmer is a comprehensive, hands - on, practical manual to help you learn the techniques and business strategies you need to make a good living growing high - yield, high - value crops right in your own backyard (or someone else's).