Sentences with phrase «wheat crops due»

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The latest findings offer new focus points into how these genes and others may be modified to fine - tune a wheat variety for a particular environment, which will result in less crop and food loss due to changing environment.

French Agriculture Minister Bruno Le Maire warned this week that the warmest and driest spring in half a century could slash wheat yields and might even push up world prices despite the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's predicting a bumper global crop due to greater plantings.

Mexico is in the middle - ground due to the continued popularity in local diets of crops like maize and beans, two plants native to the region, alongside sugarcane (with origins in Southeast and South Asia) and wheat.

This is due to the preponderance of crops like wheat in bread and pasta, and barley and grapes in beverages like beer and wine.

There is actually an estimate that for major crops like wheat, rice and maize, that every degree Celsius rise in temperature above current temperatures could potentially decrease crop yields by between 3 - 7 % due to thermal stress.

Most important is to avoid all the Roundup - Ready GMO crops: corn, soy, sugar beets, canola oil, and cottonseed oil, as well as wheat and sugar cane, due to desiccation practices.

Generally speaking, a healthytarian lifestyle minimizes the use of gluten even when it is not necessary to do so, and may entirely avoid wheat products due to the various modern modifications and hybridization techniques that wheat has undergone to make it a major world commodity food crop.

Researchers state that jackfruit could prevent millions suffering from hunger in the future, as a replacement for wheat, corn and other crops under threat due to climate change.

The heat would also cause staple crops to suffer dramatic yield losses across the globe (it is possible that Indian wheat and U.S. corn could plummet by as much as 60 percent), this at a time when demand will be surging due to population growth and a growing demand for meat.

Authors in a recent study from the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) have identified higher emissions from continuously flooded rice, compared to rice which has more frequent periods of water drainage, and a wide range of emissions for other crops due to variation in fertilizer application.

Relative rainfall reductions were amplified 1.5 — 1.7 times in dryland wheat yields, but the impact was offset by steady increases in cropping area and crop water use efficiency (perhaps partly due to CO2 fertilization).

Potential crop failure due to drought led China to buy wheat on the international market and contributed to a doubling of global wheat prices; the resultant price spikes had a serious economic impact in Egypt, the world's largest wheat importer, where bread prices tripled.

«Potential crop failure due to drought led China to buy wheat on the international market and contributed to a doubling of global wheat prices»

Among the economic costs climate change is expected to enact on the United States over the next 25 years are: $ 35 million in annual property losses from hurricanes and other coastal storms, $ 12 billion a year as a result of heat wave - driven demand for electricity, and tens of billions of dollars from the corn and wheat industry due to a 14 percent drop in crop yields.

Local news here is that due to lots of rain in the last year, the record wheat crop has been reduced a little in tonnage, and a big chunk has been downgraded to a lower quality.

Droughts due to declines in precipitation are expected in the Mediterranean basin, as already mentioned, and in parts of India, where increasing temperatures are also expected to challenge the heat tolerances of rice and wheat crops.