His intention was to breed original
varieties of crops with attributes that would allow them to grow anywhere in the expanding Soviet empire.
Seed banks store the seeds for hundreds of thousands
of varieties of crops, providing the raw material for plant breeders.
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.
An important learning was to plant
only varieties of crops that are harvested early in the area so that we could collect and eat our lessons before school got out for the summer.
The farms will produce a
wide variety of crops from vegetables to apples to specialty grains to Christmas trees, he said.
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.
Now, molecular biologists in Germany may have found a solution, with
new varieties of crops that are resistant to a common herbicide.
Co-operatives enable farmers to build local relationships with retailers and consumers; they can also encourage biodiversity as farmers do not have to grow a narrow
variety of crops for large retailers.
University of Adelaide researchers have made a breakthrough in investigating salt tolerance in plants which could lead to new salt
tolerant varieties of crops, and also answer unresolved questions in plant biology.
Instead, intensification — producing more yield per unit of existing farmland — using advanced farming technologies and high - yielding
varieties of crops offers a more promising route to feeding a larger and more prosperous human population.
«In the mountains we found healthy vegetation and a
great variety of crops, high diversity of invertebrates and greater earthworm biomass, which was estimated at more than 33 grams per square meter,» highlights Huerta Lwanga.
Kelly Swarts et al. suspected that this later adoption may have occurred due to the survival of
certain varieties of the crop, which were better suited for the tougher growing conditions at high altitudes.
To meet the demands of the growing population, we are clearing land for housing and agriculture, replacing diverse wild plants with just a
few varieties of crops, transporting plants and animals, and introducing new chemicals into the environment.
Neonicotinoid insecticides are neurotoxic and used around the world on
broad varieties of crops, including common fruits and vegetables, through spray, soil and seed applications.
According to Welch, the first step in the programme will be to find
natural varieties of crops that are good at extracting nutrients from the soil.
«By adaptation, we mean a range of options based on existing technologies, such as
switching varieties of a crop, installing irrigation or growing a different crop, one better suited to warmer temperatures,» said Lobell, the associate director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford.
Modern farming practices propagate
select varieties of crops and use farming techniques aimed at higher yield and economic gains, and not nutrition.
Harvest your field and enjoy tons of possibilities for developing your farm after planting a huge variety of crops
Regardless of the safety of GM crops, do we want a world in which our agriculture is ruled (or continued to be ruled as in the US) by large corporations, the cultivation of only a
small variety of crops planted everywhere without regard for tradition or local conditions, the continued heavy dependence on chemical inputs?
«Our findings may in the future be used to fortify a
wide variety of crops with betalains in order to increase their nutritional value,» says Aharoni.
Dr David Thomas, a nutritionist, believes that modern horticulture methods together with
new varieties of crop, longer storage times and long - distance transport have caused changes in the nutritional value of the foods we eat.
Some varieties of cropped pants, for example, jumped from US$ 72 to $ 88.
Don't have
a variety of crops on the same field.
Advances in technology have vastly improved farming techniques, like giving us bigger harvests in
a variety of crops.
The two farmers who decided to start growing teff, Fraser McNaul and his father, Shane McNaul, planted two
varieties of the crop, brown and ivory teff.
Our Indonesian business supports a community farming organisation in East Java in planting
a variety of crop trees on 45.5 hectares at
Our Indonesian business supports a community farming organisation in East Java in planting
a variety of crop trees on 45.5 hectares at Sumberejo Arjuna Mountain.
The measure was agreed by EU agriculture ministers in 2013 and decrees that some larger farms must grow
a variety of crops.
Things of paramount importance in farmers» valuations were excluded, such as a lands» fertility and irrigation or its ability to grow a wider
variety of crops.
Researchers from Radboud University in the Netherlands found that in the two decades since Dutch farmers began using the pesticide on
a variety of crops, the birds» population declined by an average of 3.5 percent annually in farmlands where local water levels contained high concentrations of the chemical.
There's another crucial difference from California: in Winfree's study area most farmers plant
a variety of crops rather than monocultures.
It is time to subsidize a wider
variety of crops, to make eating well also economical.
Globalization offers enormous potential, as we have large areas in different agro-climatic zones that enable a wide
variety of crops to be grown.
Although the people of Çatalhöyük still hunted, in Mellaart's view, they got most of their meat from domesticated cattle, and they planted
a variety of crops.