Sentences with phrase «yields than conventional agriculture»

«We knew going into this that organic agriculture is less productive in terms of crop yields than conventional agriculture,» Crowder says.

Crowder, lead author and assistant professor of entomology at Washington State University, says he and Reganold became interested in the topic after reading a study several years ago that indicated that organic farming produces a lower crop yield than conventional agriculture.

Not exact matches

The researchers say their interest was piqued after seeing a study that positioned organic agriculture as less productive than conventional, with lower crop yields.

Global yields in Organic Agriculture are at most 20 % lower than in conventional agriculture in specAgriculture are at most 20 % lower than in conventional agriculture in specagriculture in specific cases.

At Clif Bar, the company is tackling the yield gap by investing in plant breeding, contributing to an agriculture fund that helps provide technical assistance to educate growers and investing in infrastructure that will help reduce the distance that organic producers must transport their crops from the farm gate to the aggregator or processor, which is a significantly longer distance than for most conventional producers, Dillion said.

Along with «exponentially higher» yields, the CropBox promises that their complete growing system also uses 90 % less water and 80 % less fertilizer than conventional agriculture does.

If we want to grow X amount of food conventional farming practices will require less land (thanks to higher yields) than we would need using organic agriculture.