• The collection of field data under farmers' conditions was rare, probably due to the greater efforts and higher costs involved, the lack of control of plant growing conditions other than soil salinity, and the larger random variation in crop yields and soil salinity. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, reform proved difficult because of government inefficiency and the lack of alternative crops in areas cut off from markets, where farmers had little choice but to use their land to grow grain to feed their families. (countrystudies.us)
  • The numbers of farmers that plant GM crops rose up to a record of 11 million. (scirp.org)
  • Farmers are trained in farming practices such as timely planting, crop spacing, mulching, mixed cropping, and irrigation techniques such as shallow wells. (wfp.org)
  • We train farmers on crop management techniques based on the type of soil and climate in their area," says Manase Kollang, a Programme Manager at Concern Worldwide. (wfp.org)
  • Today, farmers using micro-irrigation produce high-yield, nutritious crops on more than six million hectares worldwide," Clinton said. (ens-newswire.com)
  • In the last year, farmers and activists ruined five metric tons of transgenic seed in France, trashed fields of genetically altered crops in Germany, and convinced seven European supermarket chains to stop selling store-brand goods containing bioengineered products. (technologyreview.com)
  • Millions of farmers grow trees on and around their land. (wri.org)
  • Farmers typically plant trees on their land far apart so that sunlight can still reach their crops. (wri.org)
  • This gap is especially important in Central America , where millions of farmers use agroforestry to produce commodity crops like bananas. (wri.org)
  • Unlike the present situation, where farmers simply plant the crops that yield the biggest harvest, producers are being asked to decide carefully which crops will yield the most profit, which crops are best suited to the land and which can be produced at a high quality. (thepigsite.com)
  • farmers are only using their land to farm one type of crop all year around. (thepigsite.com)
  • Food crops reap the lowest profit per unit area and so Vietnam's farmers continue to earn low incomes. (thepigsite.com)
  • The farmers harvested 96% of the forecasted crop of maize and sorghum, 66% of the forecasted crop of soybean and 97% of the sugar beet, the ministry said in the statement. (seenews.com)
  • Farmers have gathered some 3.0 million tonnes of wheat this year, which puts average yield from the 1.95 million hectares at 1.55 tonnes per hectare, ministry data showed. (seenews.com)
  • Thanks to the Green Revolution in the 60s, despite the immense diversity of agricultural crops, rice and wheat became staple crops and the age-old farming tradition got uprooted even before the farmers realized the adverse consequences of adapting to water-intensive cultivation. (indiatogether.org)
  • Farmers with small holdings have been doing wonders with their crops hitherto unheard of. (indiatogether.org)
  • Cambodian Xing Can Shi Pin Co Ltd has reportedly earmarked $11.2 million to set up a factory to process cashew nuts and produce dried mangoes, pineapples, jackfruits and longan, in Kampong Speu province's northwesternmost Oral district, offering a ray of solace to the Kingdom's beleaguered longan farmers for the future. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • Farmers produced 639 million metric tons (mt) of these crops annually, 70 percent of which were harvested in developing countries. (nzdl.org)
  • GMO Compass, founded that eighteen million farmers in 2013 modified their crops amounting to one-hundred and seventy-four hectares of modified fields. (ipl.org)
  • These tactics include lobbying governments, opposing crop diversification, misleading farmers about the risks of tobacco farming, manipulating prices and influencing government policies related to tobacco farming.8 The tobacco industry often uses "corporate social responsibility (CSR)" schemes to gain favor with communities, and indirectly or directly undermine the implementation of Articles 17 and 18 of the WHO FCTC. (who.int)
  • In low- and middle-income countries, many farmers and government officials see tobacco as a cash crop that can generate economic growth, however, the short-term cash benefits of the crop are offset by the long-term consequences of increased food insecurity, frequent sustained farmers' debt, illness and poverty among farm workers, and widespread environmental damage in low- and middle-income countries. (who.int)
  • defects, benign and malignant tumors, genetic changes, In low- and middle-income countries, many farmers and blood disorders, neurological disorders, and endocrine government officials see tobacco as a cash crop that can disruption ( 3 ). (who.int)
  • This report looks at tobacco farmers in the ASEAN region, the extent of tobacco cultivation, government support to assist tobacco growers, and efforts in alternative crops to tobacco. (who.int)
  • The International Tobacco Growers Association (ITGA), a pro- tobacco industry group, however, claims an inflated 4 mil ion tobacco farmers in the ASEAN region. (who.int)
  • The ITGA claims Indonesia has 3.5 mil ion growers by including clove farmers, when in reality the actual number of tobacco growers is 689,360. (who.int)
  • Crop area is likely to increase further as rice planting is still continuing, although at a slow pace as the monsoon season is coming to an end. (dextrainternational.com)
  • The Government's investment in labour, research, land fertilisation and training for farming of rice and other crops is unbalanced. (thepigsite.com)
  • JAKARTA: Indonesia's 2023 rice output is expected to drop by 2.05% to 30.90 million metric tons, as extreme dry. (brecorder.com)
  • KARACHI: With a bumper rice crop and ban on rice export by India, there are new export opportunities for Pakistani. (brecorder.com)
  • HANOI: Vietnam has 7-8 million metric tons of rice for exports this year, the country's agriculture minister said. (brecorder.com)
  • Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are in over 70% of products produced in the United States, especially since most contain traces of corn, soybean, rice or canola, which are some of the popularly grown genetically modified crops. (ipl.org)
  • Crop losses in extreme situations can reach up to75%, and millions of hectares of rice are affected each year. (bvsalud.org)
  • The top three leading Bt cotton producers are India (11.6 Million hectares), USA (5.06 Million Hectares) and China (2.93 Million Hectares). (isaaa.org)
  • Today, when the world faces the threat of a virus, India as of late April 2020 could declare a food grain reserve of 73.8 million tonnes. (telegraphindia.com)
  • According to WHO, over 124 countries grow tobacco and the top three producers are China, Brazil and India accounting for 60% of global leaf production.2 Tobacco industry has presented tobacco as a lucrative crop by promoting economic benefits to those who grow tobacco. (who.int)
  • As more and more genetically modified (GM) crops are approved for commercialization and planting, safety issues of GM crops have become hot topics worldwide. (scirp.org)
  • Although some activists claim genetically altered crops are a direct threat to human health, researchers generally dismiss such fears: There is little evidence that transgenic genes, in and of themselves, are likely to be toxic or promote disease. (technologyreview.com)
  • Wheat improvement efforts by Canada and the United States were, in large measure, driven by the need to genetically protect the crop against stem rust. (farmprogress.com)
  • Genetically modified crops have their advantages and disadvantages. (ipl.org)
  • Presently a considerable amount of research is undertaken to develop agricultural crops with a higher salt tolerance to enhance crop cultivation in salinity stricken regions. (wikipedia.org)
  • There was less precipitation in July but June and August saw more than normal rainfall helping cultivation of crops in all parts of the country," said a senior agriculture ministry official. (dextrainternational.com)
  • Cover crop-based rotational tillage (CCBRT), a practice that reduces the need for tillage and cultivation through the creation of cover crop mulches, has emerged as an alternative weed management practice in organic cropping systems. (mdpi.com)
  • Cultivation increased primarily at the expense of meadows and grasslands, which diminished from about 46 million hectares in the mid-1920s to about 14 million hectares in the mid-1980s. (countrystudies.us)
  • In addition to the more than 8 million lives lost to The tobacco industry contributes to climate change tobacco every year globally ( 2 ), this year's campaign reveals and reduces climate resilience by wasting resources and the risks tobacco cultivation poses to human health. (who.int)
  • Although cultivation of tobacco ( Nicotiana tabacum L.) forms a smal part of the overal agricultural sector in Southeast Asia, the tobacco industry and its representatives overstate its importance and inflate its contributions to employment and economy, presenting tobacco as a lucrative cash crop and underplaying the enormous support needed to keep it viable. (who.int)
  • The nematicides market is witnessing high growth because of increasing demand in the developing countries, easy availability of crop protection products, growing area under high-value cash crops such as fruits & vegetables, as well as rise demand for food products on account of increasing population. (marketsandmarkets.com)
  • Export of fresh and processed vegetables earned $566 million in 2007 and comprised a fifth of New Zealand's horticultural exports. (teara.govt.nz)
  • accounting for 74 percent of all agricultural land, 15 percent is for monoculture of rubber and coffee (one million hectares), and 1.4 million hectares is used to grow fruit, vegetables and flowers. (thepigsite.com)
  • Under the plastic roofs, vegetables are cultivated using hydroponics, where the crops grow in a nutritional solution instead of soil. (lu.se)
  • Millions of tons of vegetables are exported to other European countries and worldwide. (lu.se)
  • The crops so irrigated are mostly vegetables and small plots of maize meant for early harvest, just before the onset of the rains. (lu.se)
  • According to a recent report released from International Service for The Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA), ISAAA Brief 46-2013 [8] , GM crop planting area increased every single year between 1996 to 2013, and the total planting area increased by more than 100-fold from 1.7 million hectares in 1996 to over 175 million hectares in 2013. (scirp.org)
  • In 1996, 1.7 million hectares of bio-tech crops were planted in the world. (theglobaleducationproject.org)
  • The British NGO Global Witness, for example, says continued logging in Cambodia at 1.5 million cubic meters per year-the rate in the early 1990s-would result in the total silting up of Tonle Sap by 2023. (cia.gov)
  • Canadian planting of biotech crops is estimated at about 10.3 million hectares for 2016, flat from the previous year. (usda.gov)
  • According to the FAO, approximately 20%-40% of crop yield is lost every year due to pest infestation. (marketsandmarkets.com)
  • However, no efforts have been made to actively select for crop varieties that are more efficient at converting additional atmospheric CO 2 into seed yield. (the-scientist.com)
  • In case of a dry finish (dry spring) there is not sufficient soil water available for the crop to reach its potential yield. (edu.au)
  • The blast disease has, so far, caused up to 90% yield losses in more than 15,000 hectares. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Japanese, Americans even the Chinese were all breeding high-yielding varieties of crop plants. (telegraphindia.com)
  • Earlier, dry lands in the Deccan plateau had many varieties of agricultural crops growing under rain-fed conditions. (indiatogether.org)
  • Unpredictable rainfall over the past few years has put precious property, crops and livestock at risk. (wfp.org)
  • South Sudan has experienced record floods for three consecutive years, displacing thousands of people, drowning crops, livestock and villages. (wfp.org)
  • Record floods for three consecutive years have displaced thousands of people, drowning hectares of crops, livestock and villages. (wfp.org)
  • 2.4 million hectares of crops and a large number of livestock. (worldbank.org)
  • The main biotech crops remain canola, corn and soybeans, with small amounts. (usda.gov)
  • In 2010, a total of 321,097 hectares were planted in six countries1 producing a total of 340,941 metric tons. (who.int)
  • however Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Vietnam are net importers of tobacco amounting to 41,233 metric tons valued at US$ 200.65 mil ion. (who.int)
  • 16 reasonable crop yields only for very tolerant crops A common way to present crop - salinity data is according to the Maas-Hoffman model (see above figure): initially a horizontal line connected to a downward sloping line. (wikipedia.org)
  • Improve low bean crop yields on N-poor tropical soils through N-fixing soil bacteria. (fao.org)
  • This can severely affect the crop yields. (edu.au)
  • In part, these farm households value R&T because R&T produce large quantities of dietary energy and have stable yields under conditions in which other crops may fail (Alexandratos 1995, 189). (nzdl.org)
  • Deforestation for tobacco plantations promotes soil degradation and "failing yields" or the capacity for the land to support the growth of any other crops or vegetation. (who.int)
  • The irregular pattern of rainfall in the past three seasons is a major hindrance to increased crop productivity especially that none of the villages have any worthwhile irrigation infrastructure. (lu.se)
  • Planting looks healthy across the country except in few pockets of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat where there are reports of crop damages due to excessive rains and floods. (dextrainternational.com)
  • The losses caused need to be contained to meet the food requirements to keep crop production from stagnating. (marketsandmarkets.com)
  • Losses of major crops due to fungi, nematodes, and other such microorganisms are also on the rise. (marketsandmarkets.com)
  • The wheat blast pathogen is now rife in South America, where it infects up to 3 million hectares and causes serious crop losses. (sciencedaily.com)
  • This decrease from kilograms per hectare in the 1960s to grams per hectare today is due to advancements in plant science and technology. (marketsandmarkets.com)
  • Since the "green revolution" of the 1960s increased crop production around the world, agricultural science has served as a bulwark against global hunger. (the-scientist.com)
  • About 3.33 million hectares (8 million acres) of China's farmland is too polluted to grow crops, a government official said on Monday, highlighting the risk facing agriculture after three decades of rapid industrial growth. (scmp.com)
  • 19,000 hectares (47,000 acres) of crop fields and vineyards. (ochakovo.ru)
  • Crop planting has expanded to a new record of 110.45 million hectares, rising 5.7% over last year and setting the stage for another bumper harvest. (dextrainternational.com)
  • New Zealand growers act as multiplying agents for northern hemisphere companies, raising seed crops during the northern hemisphere autumn and winter seasons, and then air freighting the harvest back to northern companies in time for spring sowing. (teara.govt.nz)
  • Colombia today imports coffee because its harvest declined from sixteen to nine million sacks. (nadir.org)
  • Choosing crops and planning rotations in terms of economy and effective land use are crucial. (thepigsite.com)
  • In 1999, spraying destroyed 16,000 hectares of coca and poppies, but the cultivated area increased .to 22,000 hectares. (nadir.org)
  • The report accurately highlighted the high productivity of oil palm - the world's highest-yielding commercial oilseed - and noted that the crop has created jobs and driven rural development in Malaysia and Indonesia. (mongabay.com)
  • World Growth Report Claim: "The leading cause of deforestation is pressure from the world's poor, homeless, and hungry who clear land to gather firewood, build shelter, and plant crops for food. (mongabay.com)
  • For years, researchers have produced accurate techniques to track where people are damaging, protecting and restoring the world's 1.03 billion hectares of primary tropical forests, which are vital tools to store carbon and protect biodiversity. (wri.org)
  • In Latin America, for example, restoring trees to a hectare of land can add $1,140 in value . (wri.org)
  • Preliminary tree cover data developed by WRI shows where billions of these trees - previously invisible to governments, investors and the public - are growing across 1.4 billion hectares of Africa and Latin America (an area 40% larger than the entire United States). (wri.org)
  • 1 (See Box 1 for an overview of the variety of R&T.) Around 250 million mt of R&T were eaten in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and nearly 100 million mt, almost all of it potatoes, in developed countries. (nzdl.org)
  • The cultivated area increased from about 8 million hectares in the 1920s to nearly 19 million hectares in 1952 and to almost 28 million hectares by 1991. (countrystudies.us)
  • Total cropped area of Pakistan is 27.48 million hectares which is 34.4 percent of total land area. (researchgate.net)
  • Bt cotton is currently planted in 15 countries globally covering an area of 24 million hectares. (isaaa.org)
  • In south west Victoria there were 400-500,000 ha under cropping in 2007 and this area can be expanded to over 1 million ha in coming years. (edu.au)
  • But in reality, the spraying not only hasn't reduced the area in which illegal crops are grown in Colombia, but has actually increased it. (nadir.org)
  • The area devoted to legal crops diminished by 1,500,000 hectares, while agricultural imports increased by 700 percent. (nadir.org)
  • The United Nations Environment Program estimates 7 million hectares of forests are cut down every year - a massive area roughly the size of Portugal. (glycemicindex.com)
  • Another 3.7 million hectares were in use as vineyards, orchards, and olive groves, and 20.2 million hectares were covered by forests and other woodlands. (countrystudies.us)
  • By comparison logged-over forests at the two sites stored 70-200 tons of carbon per hectare. (mongabay.com)
  • BUCHAREST (Romania), November 30 (SeeNews) - Romania's 2007 crop of cereals, sunflowerseeds, soybean and sugar beet is below expectations after a severe drought hit the country this year, the Agriculture Ministry said on Friday. (seenews.com)
  • More than 2.3 million hectares are seeded to pulse crops each year. (blogspot.com)
  • This paper analyzes recent trends in and alternative projections of the supply, demand, and trade for roots and tubers (R&T). In doing so, it seeks to provide a clearer vision of the contribution that these crops can make to the food systems of developing countries through the year 2020. (nzdl.org)
  • Around 3.5 million hectares of land are destroyed for tobacco growing each year. (who.int)
  • Green Tobacco Sickness' million hectares of land for tobacco growing each year ( 5 ). (who.int)
  • Droughts occurred throughout the year, with California and the Middle East being hit especially hard, leading to water shortages and crop failures. (lu.se)
  • NT and crop rotation systems are keys to integrated soil fertility management. (fao.org)
  • Restricted root growth into the clay subsoil restricts the 'bucket size' or the volume of plant available water in soil profile for crop production. (edu.au)
  • When roost are restricted to only the upper 50 cm of soil, then there will be on average only 50 to 70 mm of plant available water for the crop. (edu.au)
  • There are millions of hectares of cropping land in the world which have severe sub soil physical constraints. (edu.au)
  • Planting pulses leaves behind nitrogen in the soil, providing valuable nutrients to future crops. (blogspot.com)
  • The soil fertility was also taken care of as they rotated their crops. (indiatogether.org)
  • Oil palm expansion in Indonesia and Malaysia has outpaced growth of all other crops since 1995 (chart presented in World Growth's report). (mongabay.com)
  • In 1995-97, the major R&T - cassava, potato, sweetpotato, and yam - occupied about 50 million hectares worldwide. (nzdl.org)
  • Misuse was greatest in rain-fed cropped fields, but some grazing land and wasteland were found better suited to other uses such as cropping and forestry. (countrystudies.us)
  • Since 1994, in total 62 countries in the world (including 27 European Union member countries) have approved the planting and/or importing GM crops for food and feed, covering 2833 approvals for 336 GM events in 27 plant species. (scirp.org)
  • Such climate shocks are compounding an already fragile food security situation in a country where 7.2 million people, 60 percent of its population, are going hungry. (wfp.org)
  • WASHINGTON, DC , June 12, 2012 (ENS) - Dr. Daniel Hillel, an Israeli-American scientist who created an innovative way of bringing water to crops in arid regions was named the winner of the 2012 World Food Prize in a ceremony today at the U.S. State Department. (ens-newswire.com)
  • This February, a coalition of 70 groups and individuals sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to block the use of a dozen transgenic crops as an "imminent" threat to the environment. (technologyreview.com)
  • Individually, cassava, potato, sweetpotato, and yam rank among the most important food crops worldwide and, in terms of annual volume of production, cassava, potato, and sweetpotato rank among the top 10 food crops produced in developing countries. (nzdl.org)
  • Tobacco is grown as a cash crop in many countries around the world. (who.int)
  • In 2006, they collected some 5.35 million tonnes from 2.01 million hectares. (seenews.com)
  • About 5% of New Zealand's soils (1,120,000 hectares) fit this description, but in 2007 only 55,360 hectares of land grew vegetable crops. (teara.govt.nz)
  • These crops grew at no extra cost and were a blessing for the poor, especially pregnant and nursing women and children. (indiatogether.org)
  • The dependence of farming communities on these staple crops grew as they did not have to toil hard in their fields to grow millets. (indiatogether.org)
  • Market gardening is an intense form of vegetable and cut-flower production in which crops are grown continuously. (teara.govt.nz)
  • But, increasingly, crops to be sold fresh and processed are being grown on a larger scale by big national or international companies. (teara.govt.nz)
  • The liberalisation of the Colombian economy, under the direction of the WTO, has meant that crops previously grown in Colombia are now imported. (nadir.org)
  • Growing them in rotation with other crops can also disrupt disease and insect cycles. (blogspot.com)
  • Dr. Hillel laid the foundation for maximizing efficient water usage in agriculture through a method known as micro-irrigation, which has impacted millions of lives. (ens-newswire.com)
  • Chinese state media say more than 2 million people in drought-stricken areas are suffering from critical shortages of drinking water. (voanews.com)
  • The drought has caused more than $400 million in economic damage, and destroyed or damaged thousands of hectares of crops. (voanews.com)
  • Salt tolerance of crops is the maximum salt level a crop tolerates without losing its productivity while it is affected negatively at higher levels. (wikipedia.org)
  • Subsoil constraints that limit crop productivity are considered to be a major issue in southern Australia. (edu.au)
  • Millions of hectares of NT for cereal production with cover crops. (fao.org)
  • But topping all these challenges is the looming threat of climate change, which stems largely from an increase in greenhouse gas emissions and threatens to hinder crop production in many regions, as a result of severe droughts, heat waves and the spread of invasive species. (the-scientist.com)
  • Without question, the growing demand for crop production will provide challenges as substantial and long-term as anything faced through human history. (the-scientist.com)
  • Vegetable production is a multi-million-dollar business in New Zealand, worth NZ$1,456 million in 2007. (teara.govt.nz)
  • Millions of hectares of orangutan habitat have been cleared over the past 20 years in the name of palm oil production (some of this, mostly in Indonesia, was never actually planted with oil palm) and when found in plantations, orangutans are commonly persecuted as threats to palm fruit. (mongabay.com)
  • For example, in Tolima, cotton production increased from 4 to 16 million kilograms from 1950 until 1955, all of this through violence. (nadir.org)
  • Many large properties are dedicated to extensive cattle ranching (rather than crop production). (nadir.org)
  • On the plus side, palm oil production is the most efficient of all oil crops . (glycemicindex.com)
  • There are millions of hectares of available cleared land suitable for sustainable palm oil production in Indonesia. (glycemicindex.com)
  • At the same time these crops are highly differentiated in terms of origin, production and nutritional traits, and use. (nzdl.org)
  • 40 years as an effective broad-leaf herbicide in corn, sorghum, and sugar cane, and has also been used for other crops and for nonspecific treatment of weeds along railway right of ways and highways. (cdc.gov)
  • The government of Pakistan's Citizens' Damage Compensation Program, supported by the World Bank through its Flood Emergency Cash Transfer (FECT) Project in collaboration with USAID, DFID and the government of Italy, reached out to at least 1 million flood-affected households of the target population. (worldbank.org)
  • More than 1,005,754 households (7.5 million people) have already been enrolled and 95% of these received the early recovery cash transfer amount. (worldbank.org)
  • The World Bank, DFID, USAID and the government of Italy joined the Phase-II collectively through the Flood Emergency Cash Transfer Project (FECT) Project reaching at least 1 million households (7.5 million people), including the vulnerable (widows and disabled-headed households) and providing $404 to each beneficiary household in two equal tranches of $202. (worldbank.org)
  • The program reached out to an estimated 1 million households (7.5 million people) identified through provincial housing damage data verified through third party validation. (worldbank.org)
  • Cash transfers made from November 2011 to January 2013 to 1,005,754 households (7.5 million people). (worldbank.org)
  • Eight developed countries and 19 developing countries planted GM crops in 2013, and developing countries planted more hectares than developed ones for the second consecutive years. (scirp.org)
  • Globally tobacco farming is accounted for 3.2 mil ion hectares of land, about the size of Belgium. (who.int)
  • In 2007, 1,450 growers raised crops for fresh vegetable markets and 750 growers supplied the processed vegetable sector. (teara.govt.nz)
  • In contrast, 400 full-time flower growers and another 800 part-time growers supplied the domestic cut-flower trade, estimated to be worth $60 million in sales in 2007. (teara.govt.nz)
  • Regarding improved efficacy, active ingredient application rates per hectare have decreased 95 percent for newer products compared to older ones. (marketsandmarkets.com)
  • Since Charles Keeling began monitoring atmospheric CO 2 at Mauna Loa in 1957, atmospheric CO 2 has increased by 25 percent, from 315 parts per million (ppm) to 394 ppm. (the-scientist.com)
  • Groundwater of engineered crops is contaminated by all the phosphate and nitrogen used. (ipl.org)
  • Lewis H. Ziska is a Senior Plant Physiologist at the Crop Systems and Global Change Lab, of the US Department of Agriculture. (the-scientist.com)
  • tobacco is only one of many crops they plant as part of their cropping scheme. (who.int)
  • However, biologists do believe that in some cases foreign genes in crops can pass into other, nonagricultural species, with potentially dangerous effects. (technologyreview.com)
  • In the past, this region of south-eastern Spain was dry and undisturbed, but since the 1980s it has been home to the highest concentration of greenhouses in the world, with 26 000 hectares. (lu.se)
  • Current population of Pakistan is about 199 million and this makes Pakistan the 6th most populous country in the world. (researchgate.net)
  • The government has said about 3.33 million hectares of China's farmland is too polluted to grow crops. (scmp.com)
  • A second approach is to grow deep rooted 'primer' crops such as lucerne. (edu.au)
  • Agroforestry systems, for example, which grow trees on croplands, underpin the livelihoods of more than 900 million people . (wri.org)
  • The diversity of crop pests continues to expand, and new strains are continually evolving. (marketsandmarkets.com)
  • Abuk uses the water from shallow wells to irrigate her crops in the dry season. (wfp.org)
  • MITI has set aside $20 million to encourage joint implementation projects in Russia and Southeast Asia, ecZ Environmental Outlook for Cambodia's Tonle Sap Tonle Sap is in trouble but disagree on the timeframe involved. (cia.gov)
  • Our data, however, reveals that 75% of the region's farms - around 4 million hectares - have more than 10% tree cover. (wri.org)
  • in 1981 the government began encouraging double cropping and the planting of feed crops on fallow fields. (countrystudies.us)
  • Vegetable seed exports were worth $38 million in 2007. (teara.govt.nz)