Sentences with phrase «varieties of agricultural crops»

Not exact matches

While soybeans and corn are the main cash grain crops being tested in this project, we are also testing a variety of other agricultural enterprises, such as vegetable production, orchards and pastures.

The Agriculture Committee handles a variety of issues including agricultural research and development, rural economic development, crop insurance, food safety, international trade, and commodities regulation.

Speaking at the Northern Regional launch and sensitisation forum on GASIP in Tamale, Alhaji Mohammed Limuna Muniru of the Agric Ministry reiterated the commitment of government to provide modern equipment, technologies, improved crop varieties and other support systems that will enhance activities in the agricultural sector.

To prevent this agricultural crisis, Nelson estimates, would require an investment of at least $ 7 billion per year in the most affected countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America for increased agricultural research into, for example, drought - resistant crop varieties.

Without better crop varieties or other agricultural technology improvements, irrigated wheat yields, for example, will fall at least 20 percent by 2050 as a result of global warming, and south Asia as well as parts of sub-Saharan Africa will face the worst effects.

IFPRI's fellows in the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research system are developing, for example, drought - tolerant or heat - resistant varieties of staple crops such as wheat and rice.

The Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology works with agricultural breeding stations to develop improved crop varieties in Kazakhstan, a nation in Asia sandwiched between Russia and China.

The bank, which is dominated by rich nations, wants to take command of a network of agricultural research centres and their priceless collections of genetic varieties of crops.

Need for strong public outreach Agricultural production accounts for the greatest amount of global water consumption, and in this sector the authors suggest a variety of efficiency proposals such as improved irrigation systems and switching to crop varieties that consume less water.

By analyzing ancient genomes of maize, scientists have found evidence suggesting that eventual agricultural use of the crop throughout the temperate highlands of the U.S. likely occurred due to propagation of varieties with earlier flowering times.

«When breeders make crosses to develop new varieties, they are seeking new combinations of alleles that are better suited to the agricultural environment or market for the crop product,» Close explained.

While a variety of agricultural products were grown illegally in the parks, cocoa constituted 93 percent of the total crops grown.

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

Polyethylene plastic mulch offers a range of benefits and has become standard for growers of a variety of agricultural and horticultural crops.

UVALDE — A recent study led Texas A&M AgriLife Research has shown ground - penetrating radar, or GPR, may be effectively used in detecting the fine roots of plants, helping agricultural producers identify what crop varieties are best suited to their field conditions.

Perturbations to plant behavior by transgene insertions are unlikely to be ignored by agricultural biotechnologists because appropriate recognition of them determines the success or failure of new varieties of crops in the field.

Careful planning, and the promotion of sustainable agricultural practices such as soil and water conservation techniques, mixed cropping and appropriate crop varieties were critical to achieving success.

There's every reason to think that farmers, along with the companies and institutions that develop crop varieties and agricultural technologies, can meet the challenge, but also evidence that today's levels of research and development — particularly for advances that can benefit the poorest regions — are grossly insufficient.

In recent e-mail exchanges he alerted me to a building protest effort in Nepal following an announcement in September by the United States Agency for International Development that it was teaming up with Monsanto and Nepali agricultural agencies to promote the benefits of high - yielding hybrid corn varieties and to train Nepali farmers how to grow such crops.

The group worries that such moves take away intellectual property rights to crop varieties from the farming communities that developed them and provide a false sense of confidence that safe storage, on its own, can sustain agricultural diversity.

This highlights the vulnerability of many agricultural systems and associated human vulnerability to future climatic changes, as necessary adjustments to farming practices (e.g., using more tolerant crop varieties, irrigation, etc.) are likely to be costly and some of the most extreme reductions in plant growing days are expected in tropical countries with limited economic capacity (Figs 2 and 5).