Sentences with phrase «variety of agricultural production»

«Organic farming» is the name given to a variety of agricultural production systems that aim to work «with nature» rather than by conquering it.

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Agricultural production and marketing systems can have a variety of impacts, such as impacts on the nutritional content and safety of the food and on the environment.

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.

Cuomo said harmful algae blooms, or HABs, have a variety of causes, including agricultural production and wastewater plants, that have not been addressed in environmental regulations.

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.

«Through a partnership with the African Agricultural Technology Foundation and the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, which operates independently from its parent company, we are transforming the process of soybean seed production by introducing the concept of variety testing.»

With the help of scientists in the lab of Ed Buckler, a Cornell Professor and USDA — Agricultural Research Station scientist, the researchers examined the genomes of 26 corn varieties to look for genetic links to terpene production and mapped them to their locations on the chromosomes.

With generous funding from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) over the last 15 years, Afghanistan research organizations and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) have helped supply Afghan farmers with improved varieties and farming practices to boost production of maize and wheat.

Sustained increases in agricultural production and productivity require the continuous development of new rice varieties to meet the production -LSB-...]

In addition, Minnesota's strong agricultural base enhances exposure to a wide variety of food animals and food animal production systems.

Data on agricultural production and water use are not collected at all, or are collected by individual irrigation districts, counties, and a variety of state and federal agencies using a range of tools from voluntary reporting at the field level to remote sensing from satellites.

The city has had a rich variety of industries and agricultural production.