The vast majority of African farmers are still planting low -
yield seeds without even the benefit of fertilizer, and the harvests that they're getting are a third or a fourth or a fifth of what they ought to be getting, and the result is mass hunger.
Not exact matches
10As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it
without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it
yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, 11so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
Without improved
seed and increased
yields, the situation will only worsen.
Furthermore, those
yields will increase
without the addition of soil N fertilizer, as the results of this study clearly show that it was a CO2 - induced stimulation of nitrogen - fixation by symbiotic bacteria that provided the nitrogen necessary to increase
seed yields.»
A cluster of innovations including tractors,
seeds, chemicals, and irrigation, joined through timely information flows and better organized markets, raised the
yields to feed billions more
without clearing new fields.
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Formulated an organic pesticide, the use of which resulted in high organic content and crop
yield • Saved 23 farm animals from an impending disease (discovered on the adjacent farmland) by quickly isolating and vaccinating them • Devised a novel irrigation system to provide water to all crop lines,
without the use of sophisticated and expensive machinery • Suggested using the age old method of hand
seeding, resulting in increased crop growth
10 As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it
without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it
yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, 11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.