Sentences with phrase «vegetable oil crops»

So margarine starts with vegetable oils which we already indicated, 85 % of vegetable oil crops out there are genetically engineered and I'm speaking of soybean oil, safflower oil, canola oil, corn, and cotton seed oils.

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Produced from a new variety of oilseed rape — the familiar yellow - flowered crop that is the third - largest source of the world's vegetable oil needs — the new oil, -LSB-...]

Sunflower and other oilseed crops are the source of the vast majority of vegetable oil used for cooking and food processing.

Increasing demand for corn, wheat, soybeans, sugar, vegetable oil and cassava competes for limited acres of farmland, at least until farmers have had time to plow up more forest and grassland, which means that tightness in one crop market translates to tightness in others.

Oil palms, which primarily grow in Southeast Asia and Africa, are highly productive, yielding more vegetable oil per hectare than any other oil - producing crOil palms, which primarily grow in Southeast Asia and Africa, are highly productive, yielding more vegetable oil per hectare than any other oil - producing croil per hectare than any other oil - producing croil - producing crop.

Like other trees, the oil palm plant serves as a natural reservoir for carbon and is more effective at sequestering carbon than other major vegetable crops.

According to the USDA, nearly forty percent of the 2017 U.S. corn crop will be diverted to ethanol production, and just over 1/3 of the oil produced from soybeans, the leading source of vegetable oil in the U.S., will be diverted to biodiesel production in 2017/18.

As the world's highest yielding oilseed, the crop generates substantially more vegetable oil per acre than soy, canola (rapeseed), or corn, meaning that palm oil can help meet future demand for vegetable oil with less land, a point palm growers are quick to mention in any discussion over the environmental impacts of palm oil.

To date, food crops (corn, sugar, and vegetable oil) have been the primary source of biofuels for transportation, but increased use of these fuels has created more problems than solutions: rising food prices and food price volatility, and accelerated expansion of agriculture in the tropics.