Sentences with phrase «yield losses across»

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.

Macassane, a new IRRI - bred rice variety released in Mozambique in 2011, also has improved resistance to baterial leaf blight, which causes yield losses across the country.

Not exact matches

«The credit quality, this move up in interest rates, this loss of a four - decade uptrend in bonds, downtrend in yields, that's the source of the volatility which I think far surpasses these amazing developments technology has come across in the last couple of decades,» said Gordon.

Charcoal rot is a relatively unknown disease causing yield losses in crops across South Africa, including maize.

This advice comes at a time when farmers across the country are complaining of huge yield losses as a result of poor rainfall patterns this year.

«By synthesizing the results of field studies across the globe, we wanted to better characterize the factors that determine the magnitude of yield loss in legumes due to drought stress, which must be considered in agricultural planning to increase the resilience of legume production systems,» Wang said.

Effect of Nitrogen Addition on Miscanthus X Giganteus Yield, Nitrogen Losses, and Soil Organic Matter across Five Sites, Morgan P. Davis, Mark B. David, Thomas B. Voigt, Corey A. Mitchell, Global Change Biology Bioenergy, doi: 10.1111 / gcbb.12217, August 2014.

Studies at IRRI showed that sheath blight causes a yield loss of 6 % across lowland rice fields in tropical Asia.

Chart 1 clearly demonstrates that across dividend yields and price declines, the more a stock falls, the less time it will take to recover from its losses.

As extreme heat spreads across the middle of the country by the end of the century, some states in the Southeast, lower Great Plains, and Midwest risk up to a 50 % to 70 % loss in average annual crop yields (corn, soy, cotton, and wheat), absent agricultural adaptation.

Participants agreed to elaborate on the text by including language stating: «Projected impacts vary across crops and regions and adaptation scenarios, with about 10 % of projections for the period 2030 - 2049 showing yield gains of more than 10 %, and about 10 % of projections showing yield losses of more than 25 %, compared to the late 20th century.»