• Farmers, Gene Banks and Crop Breeding: Economic Analyses of Diversity in Wheat, Maize, and Rice responds to concerns about the loss of valuable genetic resources and crop vulnerability arising from widespread cultivation of genetically uniform varieties. (farmersrights.org)
  • I started mixed cultivation of crops, including pineapple, ginger, mango and coffee together," Bawn told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. (trust.org)
  • But I want to start mixed crops cultivation from next season to get more benefit from farming," she added. (trust.org)
  • Mohammad Qudrat-E-Ghana, a director of Bangladesh's Department of Agriculture Extension (Horticulture), said there is great potential for growing fruit and other new crops to replace shifting cultivation in the hill tracts. (trust.org)
  • Farmers of five blocks in the district have brought more land under rice fallow-crop cultivation in a bid to increase production. (thehindu.com)
  • The farmers of Minjur, Cholavaram, Gummidipoondi, Ellapuram and Tiruvallur blocks have brought more land under rice fallow-crop cultivation. (thehindu.com)
  • A total of 12,303 hectares of land are under pulse cultivation in the district, of which 6,500 are under rice fallow-crop cultivation, an increase of 2,000 hectares from last year. (thehindu.com)
  • According to an agricultural officer, rice fallow-crop cultivation would help double production. (thehindu.com)
  • However, interactions between the Tatandayan community and lowlanders introduced the Indigenous group to the cultivation of highland vegetables less than a decade ago, thanks to the region's relatively cool climate and productive soil, says Eke Lastama, the hamlet's Indigenous farmer leader. (mongabay.com)
  • In particular, the cultivation of annual crops such as wheat, rice, soya beans and various oil-based plants is problematic, according to Lennart Olsson from the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies. (lu.se)
  • The new rice has so far only been cultivated in China but we have now started testing it in Uganda, where we have also introduced experiments with cultivation of perennial variants of sorghum in polycultures. (lu.se)
  • Furthermore, having a deep understanding with rice varietal considerations can significantly improve strategies related to rice cultivation and protection. (who.int)
  • Moreover, tobacco farmers may of tobacco on the environment should be of particular experience increased concentration of aluminum and importance to Member States in the EMR, given that arsenic in their blood due to exposure to pesticides used about 90% of all tobacco production is concentrated in in tobacco cultivation ( 3 ). (who.int)
  • One solution that has been proposed is a transition to the cultivation of perennial crops, in order to transform existing agricultural practices, rebuild depleted soils, and raise agricultural yields (Reganold & Glover, 2016). (lu.se)
  • The infrastructure will measure the exchange of greenhouse gases between the atmosphere and agriculture in real time in two parallel cultivation systems: the newly domesticated Kernza (Intermediate wheatgrass) and conventional crop rotation in Skåne (including wheat, sugar beet, barley and rapeseed). (lu.se)
  • Farmers should invest in perennial crops instead of growing annuals, such as rice. (lu.se)
  • The research deals with developing and cultivating perennial crops, i.e. crops that last several years and do not need to be sown every year. (lu.se)
  • Perennial crops also benefit from being cultivated in combination with other crops in polycultures. (lu.se)
  • Cultivating perennial crops also makes it more difficult for weeds to establish themselves in the fields. (lu.se)
  • Since perennial crops do not need to be sown every year, soil erosion can be reduced and nutrient leaching can be minimised. (lu.se)
  • Within this research field, various approaches are being tested to develop perennial crops. (lu.se)
  • Perennial crops such as Kernza have also proven to be better at reducing nitrogen leaching and building up humus content. (lu.se)
  • Olsson thinks that farmers should welcome perennial crops as conventional agriculture uses a very large part of its gross revenue to buy external inputs, mainly seeds, pesticides, artificial fertiliser, machines and diesel. (lu.se)
  • These costs can be significantly reduced with perennial crops. (lu.se)
  • This is due to the major challenges involved in making perennial crops operational. (lu.se)
  • The aim of the project is twofold: (1) to shed light on the potential social and environmental benefits (through increased resilience) that different perennial crops and cropping systems could bring for smallholder farmers, and (2) to examine the various barriers - agronomical as well as political-economic, social and cultural - that might be encountered in the implementation of this perennial vision for agriculture. (lu.se)
  • As part of innovative research on perennial crops, a unique research infrastructure has been developed outside Lund. (lu.se)
  • MANILA, PHILIPPINES (19 October 2023) - The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA-PhilRice), and the Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation (PCIC) are collaborating on the development of an area-based yield index insurance for rice based on satellite data. (cgiar.org)
  • The memorandum of agreement was signed during the 6th International Rice Congress on 19 October 2023 at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC), Pasay City, Philippines. (cgiar.org)
  • JAKARTA: Indonesia's 2023 rice output is expected to drop by 2.05% to 30.90 million metric tons, as extreme dry. (brecorder.com)
  • Although based on current projections Lao PDR will have a generally satisfactory rice situation in 2001, poorer sections of the population are unlikely to benefit as the level of market integration and development remains low due to enormous problems of transport and access, inadequate market information and because rice production remains largely for subsistence and agricultural incomes are low. (fao.org)
  • Remnants of earthen bunds dating back five thousand years have been found in Balochistan, but while this form of irrigation, among the oldest in the world, is still practiced in some parts of Pakistan, it is now associated with low-value subsistence crops and concentrated in regions far from the seats of power. (nybooks.com)
  • Upland rice, root crops, banana, coconut and corn are a Pala'wan farmer's main subsistence and cash crops. (mongabay.com)
  • The distinctive feature of 'Be Good House' is that the farmers apply the natural way of cultivating crops, they do not make use of chemical pesticides, nor chemicals to grow them. (globalschoolnet.org)
  • Some rice growers, and many other farmers in the Central Valley, treat their crops with pesticides--chemicals that kill insects or other creatures that might harm the plants. (amnh.org)
  • Chemical pesticides are also a huge threat to the health of smallholder farmers and consumers as well as to the environment. (cabi.org)
  • Knowledge on more advanced rice production technologies and Integrated Crop Management (ICM) methods is poor and farmers here often stick with chemical pesticides as they struggle to access more benign pest control methods. (cabi.org)
  • We also developed integrated crop management guidelines which outlined additional measures that would improve rice production with fewer chemical pesticides. (cabi.org)
  • After decades of planting and using intensive chemical fertilizers and pesticides on the crops, many citrus plantations in neighboring Karo district have nearly collapsed due to land degradation and increased pest infestations by species that may have built up an immunity to the chemicals. (conservation.org)
  • The crops must also be sprayed with herbicides and pesticides to prevent damage from pests and plant diseases. (lu.se)
  • Diesel emissions from agricultural machinery drop drastically and farmers can use fewer pesticides and herbicides. (lu.se)
  • The paper explores the spread of crop insurance in India and analyzes the factors affecting the demand for crop insurance. (org.in)
  • Ravi Kant, a rice and wheat farmer in his 30s, lives in Bihar, just south of Nepal and one of the poorest states in India. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • A consensus is building that India needs millions more farmers who, like Kant, run their irrigation on sunshine. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • In my view, India should stop doing all other solar and just focus on giving farmers a solution for their needs," said Pashupathy Gopalan, a managing director of SunEdison, an American firm that is one of India's largest developers of big solar farms and rooftop solar panels. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • The solar farms in India could save farmers from having to pay grand sums to fuel their water pumps. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Farmers in several parts of India have been protesting. (aljazeera.com)
  • An aromatic long-grain rice from India. (umn.edu)
  • Open burning of crop residues in India is a serious issue that not only impacts human health but is also detrimental to soil health in the long term. (org.in)
  • BENGALURU/MUMBAI/HANOI/BANGKOK/BANGLADESH: Parboiled rice export prices in top hub India declined for the third. (brecorder.com)
  • KARACHI: With a bumper rice crop and ban on rice export by India, there are new export opportunities for Pakistani. (brecorder.com)
  • Women sowing rice crops in the outskirts of Nagaon Town, Assam, India. (msmagazine.com)
  • Farmers across India have peacefully organized and protested for months. (msmagazine.com)
  • To this day, farmers in Bangladesh, Thailand, India, Vietnam and other places that experience long seasonal floods grow cultivated varieties of O. sativa that survive in deep water. (cornell.edu)
  • Rapid progress has been made in recent years in the development of perennial varieties of important food staples such as wheat, sorghum and rice, most notably by The Land Institute (Crews et al. (lu.se)
  • Atrazine (6-Chloro-N-ethyl-N'-(1-methylethyhl)-1,3,5-triazine-2,4-diamine) is a triazine herbicide used widely on a variety of crops, especially maize, sorghum, and sugar-cane, for the pre- and post-emergent control of broad-leaved weeds. (who.int)
  • In September 2000, flooding which also affected neighbouring Cambodia and Vietnam devastated monsoon rice crops in central and southern parts of Lao PDR. (fao.org)
  • Building these was a festive affair: each year before the monsoon, local farmers came together, bullocks in tow, to construct new bunds or bolster old ones. (nybooks.com)
  • DAMAK, Nepal, September 23 (UNHCR) - Every year, the monsoon season in Nepal unleashes heavy rains and opens the rice-planting season in the refugee-hosting terai plains of the south-east. (unhcr.org)
  • Think of rice farms and you probably imagine Asian hillsides drenched by monsoon rains. (amnh.org)
  • Unfortunately, the monsoon behaviour has been very erratic and farmers have been facing the problems of severe drought for the past few years. (aljazeera.com)
  • The annual monsoon , on which Pakistani farmers and consumers rely, was unusually strong. (nationalgeographic.org)
  • To create awareness among the farmers about Direct seeded rice (DSR) which is resource-intensive technology to create a substitute of rice planting in Rice wheat cropping system. (journalijecc.com)
  • Farmers generally follow Rice and wheat cropping system. (mainstreamweekly.net)
  • JACKSON, Miss., Feb. 3, 2022 - The USDA's Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds Tennessee rice producers that the final date to apply for crop insurance coverage for the 2022 crop year is February 28. (usda.gov)
  • Growers are encouraged to visit their crop insurance agent soon to learn specific details for the 2022 crop year. (usda.gov)
  • In December 2022, Science announced the 10 scientific breakthroughs of the year, and one of them was the development of perennial rice as reported in an article in Nature Sustainability - the conference was instrumental in bringing the authors together. (lu.se)
  • Higher corn and soybean prices and low rice prices have reduced the acres to where they are now," Buehring said. (msucares.com)
  • Many growers in a soybean-rice rotation are sticking with soybeans another year, and some planted corn on the heavier ground," Buehring said. (msucares.com)
  • This is largely due to the increase in other cereal grain prices -- like corn -- since rice can be substituted into diets to replace these other starches. (msucares.com)
  • We can now grow our food and can also make money by selling the cash crops like sweet corn, peanut, soyabean that we have started growing in our land," says 70-year-old Gora Das. (rediff.com)
  • Like most farmers in the region, Padang grows other crops alongside his coffee, including rice, corn and other vegetables. (conservation.org)
  • The study also assesses the impact of crop insurance on the rice yields of smallholder rice producers. (org.in)
  • Results indicate a positive and significant impact of crop insurance on rice yields. (org.in)
  • Using crop growth simulation modeling, it provides timely yield forecasts and end-of-season rice yields. (cgiar.org)
  • ARBY is a type of crop insurance that provides coverage based on historical average yield of a specific geographic area, rather than individual farmer's yields, to determine payouts in the event of crop losses. (cgiar.org)
  • With timely insights into yield forecasts and end-of-season yields, satellite-based ARBY index insurance for rice can help simplify the much needed coverage for smallholder farmers, paving the way for a more resilient and sustainable future for agriculture," said Dr. Ajay Kohli, Interim Director-General of IRRI. (cgiar.org)
  • Studies find this method more productive and sustainable as it enhances soil nutrients, prevents erosion, conserves water, and boosts crop yields. (mongabay.com)
  • However, recent price instability and climate change-related issues such as shifts in land suitability and an increase in pest infestations have reduced coffee yields, leading some farmers to convert their coffee lands to citrus production in hopes of generating more income. (conservation.org)
  • Wind speed (R=0.62) and air maximum temperature (R= 0.63) were the determinant factors affecting rice yields. (who.int)
  • Now Bawn sows a mixture of traditional crops and other plants on the hill slopes, to minimise his losses if any natural disaster hits his crop land again. (trust.org)
  • Zarmoy Bawn, one of Fungkhal's neighbours, said that along with traditional crops he has planted coffee saplings on his land. (trust.org)
  • Place and Duration of Study: Four distinct rice lowlands belonging to different climatic zones (forest, transitional and savanna) of Côte d'Ivoire during cropping seasons of 2021. (who.int)
  • And yet, aside from these resources, the agricultural crops in Hualien county are also multi-variant. (globalschoolnet.org)
  • Research into developing and cultivating perennial alternatives to our common agricultural crops is underway in many different parts of the world - and interest is growing fast. (lu.se)
  • Over five years, this project aims to improve the livelihoods of smallholder rice farmers in the Greater Mekong Subregion. (cabi.org)
  • In order to better understand the specific needs and problems of poor smallholder rice farmers here, the team implemented participatory rural appraisals in all three target countries. (cabi.org)
  • By presenting the results of initial economic investigations of diversity in the world's three major food crops (wheat, maize, and rice), this volume furthers the understanding of the economic context in which crop breeders make use of genetic resources and their diversity. (farmersrights.org)
  • Wild elephants] used to destroy our rice and maize," said Durga Paudel, chair of the Sanghrasil Cooperative, a group of women who are participating in a Heifer Nepal project. (heifer.org)
  • Applying this method to maize farmers, Bakke et al. (who.int)
  • In addition to predators eating livestock, wild elephants eat the rice harvest and destroy other crops. (heifer.org)
  • Addressing methane emissions from livestock and rice systems is vital for promoting sustainable agriculture and mitigating climate change. (org.in)
  • Three raised livestock, and 30 harvested crops (rice). (cdc.gov)
  • Proportionate mortality of crop and livestock farmers in the United States, 1984-1993. (cdc.gov)
  • MUMBAI: India's move to impose a 20% duty on exports of parboiled rice has prompted buyers and sellers to postpone. (brecorder.com)
  • According to India's National Crime Records Bureau, more than 290,000 farmers have committed suicide since 1995, and the real number is likely much greater. (msmagazine.com)
  • This study identified insufficiently processed cassava root crop as the source of the foodborne illness. (who.int)
  • 2 In the Philippines, cassava is advocated as an alternative staple to rice under the Department of Agriculture - Food Staple Self-Sufficiency Program. (who.int)
  • For bitter cassava, one traditional way to effectively reduce its cyanide content is by peeling the root crop followed by grating, prolonged soaking (18-24 hours), squeezing and thorough cooking. (who.int)
  • Although it contains thiamine (0.05-0.225 mg of thiamine per 100 g of cassava, depending on the crop), the high carbohydrate load of a diet rich in cassava actually consumes more thiamine than it offers the body. (medscape.com)
  • He sows and harvests the crops at different times. (trust.org)
  • In fact, the tobacco industry example, a tobacco farmer who plants, cultivates, and contributes an estimated 84 megatons of carbon dioxide harvests tobacco may absorb as much nicotine per day to the annual greenhouse gas and destroys around 3.5 as found in 50 cigarettes ( 3 ). (who.int)
  • Moreover, these factors, together with the precariousness of farming systems and the lack of adequate coping strategies, will mean that in areas where the entire rice crop was lost to the floods last year, households in 2001 will be exposed to serious food shortages. (fao.org)
  • Based on this analysis, it is estimated that approximately 450,000 people were most affected by the floods last year, of whom an estimated 390,000 do not have access to dry season cropping. (fao.org)
  • Floods can completely submerge some rice (Oryza sativa L.) fields. (researchgate.net)
  • Flash floods can submerge paddy field rice ( O ryza sativa ), with adverse effects on internal aeration, sugar status and survival. (researchgate.net)
  • Chea Soben, a farmer in Po Rieng village, said this year he had seen his rice fields affected by floods twice. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • A team of Cornell and Japanese researchers has discovered a new genetic mechanism that allows certain rice plants to survive monthslong floods. (cornell.edu)
  • Through genetic analysis, the team determined that the allele evolved first in a wild rice, Oryza rufipogon, in Bangladesh and was domesticated there by ancient farmers who wanted to grow rice through sustained deep-water floods. (cornell.edu)
  • A new U of T Scarborough study has identified 'superstar' varieties of rice that can reduce fertilizer loss and cut down on environmental pollution in the process. (enn.com)
  • The study, authored by U of T Scarborough Professor Herbert Kronzucker in collaboration with a team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, looked at 19 varieties of rice to see which ones were more efficient at using nitrogen. (enn.com)
  • The Mission found that in keeping with the Government's strong emphasis on agricultural development in recent years, there has been appreciable growth in rice output due to increased adoption of high yielding varieties and an increase in the area under irrigated dry season farming. (fao.org)
  • If they are submerged for much longer, they will begin to rot - and our paddies are valuable fragrant rice varieties," he added. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • Groundnut farmers in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions now have the opportunity to select from three newly improved varieties to boost production and improve income. (org.in)
  • As climate change triggers radical shifts in weather patterns, other forms of cryptic genetic variation found in wild gene pools may offer adaptive solutions to help breeders fine-tune modern rice varieties to withstand the challenges of future growing conditions," said McCouch. (cornell.edu)
  • One involves trying to find wild perennial relatives and crossing them with domesticated varieties to obtain a perennial crop with a high yield. (lu.se)
  • Here, we investigated the in situ aeration of roots of rice during complete submergence, and elucidated how underwater photosynthesis and floodwater p O 2 influence root aeration in anoxic soil. (researchgate.net)
  • However, the 14 farmers who have partnered with us, now know the importance of soil testing before applying chemical fertiliser", Swain says. (rediff.com)
  • So as to prepare land and sow wheat crop immediately, farmers do not have time to let the harvested paddy stubbles to decompose in the field.Is the chief reason why farmers burn the paddy stubbles to shorten the intermediate time gap.Neither farmers can not afford tractors to plough back the harvested crop residues back in to soil as the cost of diesel is high and increases cost of production. (mainstreamweekly.net)
  • The agriculture department has opened 15 fruit tree centres in three hill districts, distributing high-quality saplings to farmers to encourage them to change their farming practices, cut soil erosion and slow land degradation. (trust.org)
  • Lately, their produce has been selling at low profits, they face competition from external communities, the work is hard, there's inadequate government support for organic farmers, and locals fear soil contamination from nearby mining projects. (mongabay.com)
  • In Tatandayan, deep-rooted timber trees, fruit trees, and vegetable crops coexist in a thriving agroforestry system, reducing forest pressure and mitigating surface runoff, nutrient leaching, and soil erosion. (mongabay.com)
  • Every season, farmers must break up and brutally terminate the biological processes in the soil. (lu.se)
  • The annual crops contribute to soil erosion and loss of nutrients as the soil is turned upside down every time new crops are sown. (lu.se)
  • As the crops are not sown every year, soil erosion can be reduced almost to zero and nutrient leaching can be minimised. (lu.se)
  • Aims: To evaluate interaction of soil pH and acidity with weather on Rice Brown spot (BS) occurrence in rice lowlands. (who.int)
  • Methodology: BS characterization were done in different farmer fields where soil samples were also collected during dry and rainy seasons. (who.int)
  • Soil silicon and acidity were determined in those samples and rice grain yield at harvest time were recorded in different sites. (who.int)
  • Both rice production and the occurrence of BS were explained by soil parameters in conjunction with climatic parameters. (who.int)
  • Adanvé J.-F., Koné B., Sikirou R., Dossou-Yovo E., Onaga G., Sorho F.. Effect of Soil and Climatic Conditions on Brown Spot Occurrence in Rice Lowland across Four Agro-climatic Zones of Côte d'Ivoire. (who.int)
  • 2014). The adoption of these crops holds a number of promises that could be particularly beneficial in a smallholder setting, including a dramatically reduced need for tilling, increased soil organic matter, reduced dependence on agricultural inputs, decreased vulnerability to droughts, and improved soil and water conservation. (lu.se)
  • Annual crops require the yearly clearing of vegetation resulting in soil erosion and other forms of ecosystem degradation. (lu.se)
  • Kant used to perform an intricate ritual when rains alone couldn't provide enough water for his crops: He would rent a diesel pump from town, shoulder it on a bamboo sling and carry it to a corner of his property where he could drench one of his flat fields with water from an underground aquifer. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • But two years ago, a flash flood triggered by torrential rains damaged his entire crop of rice, leaving him short of food and money to buy new seeds. (trust.org)
  • More than 700ha of rice fields in O'Prasat commune of Banteay Meanchey province's Mongkol Borei district have been inundated by heavy rains in the past week. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • When the rains stop, the farmers block the canals to store as much water as possible. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • On it he grew a single crop such as paddy rice, pineapple, ginger or turmeric. (trust.org)
  • The report identifies the irrigation potentials, gaps and needs that exist at national level for paddy rice production. (org.in)
  • The culturally diverse region eats a variety of rice - Basmati rice, Jasmine rice, multigrain rice or Japonica rice and more - and cooks it in different ways. (scmp.com)
  • The IRRI-PhilRice-PCIC tripartite partnership will bring innovative crop insurance products to improve the resilience of Filipino farmers to climatic risks. (cgiar.org)
  • This will help improve Filipino farmers' resilience to climatic risks. (cgiar.org)
  • Other farmers are following his lead to help improve their resilience against the worsening impacts of climate change. (trust.org)
  • China is the world's largest producer of rice. (scmp.com)
  • From June to October, farmers spend long hours in the fields to plant, then harvest their rice crops. (unhcr.org)
  • A study supported by UNICEF in 1989 estimated that rice farmers in a population of 1.6 million people in south-east Nigeria were losing the equivalent of US$ 20 million per year because so many were incapacitated by dracunculiasis during the season when they needed to harvest their rice crop. (who.int)
  • In Cantonese restaurants, some chefs even mix glutinous rice with Jasmine rice or short-grain rice to make thick and smooth congee. (scmp.com)
  • John Michael Riley, Extension agricultural economist, said cash prices for milled long grain rice are about $25 per hundredweight. (msucares.com)
  • Zn deficiency is a widespread problem in rice (Oryza sativa L.) grown under flooded conditions, limiting growth and grain Zn accumulation. (researchgate.net)
  • Panicle exsertion, an essential physiological process for obtaining high grain yield in rice is mainly driven by peduncle (uppermost internode) elongation. (researchgate.net)
  • Hypersensitivity pneumonitis was originally described in 1713 as an occupational lung disease in grain workers and later, in 1932, in farmers inhaling moldy hay contam- inated with thermophilic actinomyces, hence the term farmer's lung.1 With this recog- nition, modernization of farming methods has resulted in the reduction in farmer's lung prevalence estimated at 0.5% to 3% of exposed farmers in studies spanning from 1980 to 2003. (cdc.gov)
  • Drought is not a big issue with rice as the fields are kept flooded from four to six weeks after planting to about two weeks before harvest. (msucares.com)
  • Arkansas is the nation's largest rice producer, and the state is getting hit pretty hard with drought," Riley said. (msucares.com)
  • But the generic cause is the economic condition of the family, aggravated by the drought-induced failure of crops. (aljazeera.com)
  • This project is introducing a biologically based pest management approach to safely and sustainably increase rice production, improving the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in the region. (cabi.org)
  • Indian farmers have been peacefully protesting since before Thanksgiving week last year, standing up for their livelihoods against new laws that "benefit large conglomerate corporate entities and remove protections for farmers," according to Ms . reporter Mallika Kaur . (msmagazine.com)
  • Indian farmers are standing up to defend their dignity and livelihoods. (msmagazine.com)
  • Image: Apart from paddy, the farmers of Khentia are also growing peanuts. (rediff.com)
  • He hopes that once the trees start fruiting, he will be able to earn more money selling the cash crop. (trust.org)
  • Traditional laws have long dictated who uses the forest for which purposes - and for more than 40 years, coffee has been the key cash crop for many area farmers, who largely switched 10 years ago from growing Robusta beans to Arabica beans. (conservation.org)
  • 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)
  • PRISM data will be used in designing and testing an Area-Based Yield (ARBY) index insurance for rice. (cgiar.org)
  • The department has been encouraging more farmers to take to this intermediate crop as it does not require much water and the spraying of DAP will also help increase the yield, the official explained, adding that the production was expected to go up from the usual 500-600 kilos per hectare to one tonne per hectare. (thehindu.com)
  • Although Arabica plants have a lower yield than Robusta, their better-quality beans enable farmers to sell them for a higher price. (conservation.org)
  • For example, attempts are being made to cross a wild African perennial relative of rice with the domesticated annual Asiatic rice, which gives a high yield. (lu.se)
  • For example, their yield is still lower than that of conventional crops, although this could improve within around ten years, and there is a lack of knowledge about the properties of the new crop types for baking and other areas of application. (lu.se)
  • They use an environmental-friendly method of planting crops because they value and cherish their lands, and their persistence has resulted in producing unattractive fruits and vegetables from what we see in the market. (globalschoolnet.org)
  • In the western state of Maharashtra, farmers emptied milk containers and dumped vegetables on roads. (aljazeera.com)
  • More acres of furrow irrigated rice will be replacing flooded rice fields in 2020. (farmprogress.com)
  • USDA Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) recently declared two rice irrigation practices eligible for federal crop insurance coverage beginning in crop year 2020. (farmprogress.com)
  • We must be open to using other types of crops than annual crops and we must move away from the narrow use of monocultures", says Lennart Olsson from the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies. (lu.se)
  • Furthermore, crops are to a large extent grown as monocultures, i.e. with large areas dedicated to a single crop with a minimum of genetic variation. (lu.se)
  • We'll probably have even fewer rice acres next year because the price of soybeans makes it a more desirable crop than rice," Stephens said. (msucares.com)
  • In recent years, state growers typically plant about 200,000 acres of rice. (msucares.com)
  • Rice has been a good rotational crop on heavy clay soils that do not drain quickly, but this year's low prices are causing growers to consider other options. (msucares.com)
  • Rice is down this year to about 14,000 acres, where in the past growers have planted as many as 50,000 acres of this crop. (msucares.com)
  • If climate change causes reductions in California's annual rain and snowfall as predicted, growers may be forced to grow less rice and other thirsty crops. (amnh.org)
  • Many rice growers have started taking steps to reduce pesticide runoff. (amnh.org)
  • Training in a field school provides farmers with skills and knowledge to sustainably increase coffee productivity on existing plantations, thus avoiding the need to expand production into forested areas. (conservation.org)
  • Rice is a stable food in Vietnam and plays a key role in the economy of the country. (researchgate.net)
  • HANOI: Vietnam has 7-8 million metric tons of rice for exports this year, the country's agriculture minister said. (brecorder.com)
  • Although precipitation was slightly lower than in 1999, it was normal in most of the main rice producing provinces. (fao.org)
  • At the time of the previous IARC evaluation of atrazine (Vol. 73, 1999), the most relevant epidemiologic studies consisted of two cohort studies of manufacturing workers, three population-based case-control studies of lymphatic and hematopoietic malignancies in agricultural areas of the U.S., and a population-based case-control study of ovarian cancer in a rice-growing area of Italy. (who.int)
  • We have this bucolic idea of agriculture -- animals grazing or vast fields of majestic crops -- but the global reality is it's one of the biggest drivers of environmental pollution and climate change,' says Kronzucker. (enn.com)
  • Fungkhal Bawn works his land using a new planting system where many crops are combined to confront climate change extremes. (trust.org)
  • Despite the risks posed by climate change, in a hotter, drier Indonesia, coffee remains a more promising crop than citrus. (conservation.org)
  • When realizing that our current cultivars and cropping systems will face severe and unprecedented challenges in the decades to come due to climate change, it is equally imperative to make agriculture more climate resilient. (lu.se)
  • Krishi Vigyan Kendra (ICAR-IIVR) conducted training programs on dry-direct seeded of rice amongst the farming community in Deoria District, Uttar Pradesh, from Kharif 2010 to 2019. (journalijecc.com)
  • And without doing so, they will not be eligible for fresh credit for the kharif [summer] crop. (aljazeera.com)
  • Chhattisgarh government had decided to implement the national agriculture insurance policy and cover seven crops for the current Kharif season. (org.in)
  • But until recently, the farmers faced a bigger threat - by about 10,000 pounds. (heifer.org)
  • The human pressure on forest land, foremost agriculture as well as mining, oil extraction, illegal crops, and road development, is a threat to the Amazon's forests everywhere. (lu.se)
  • The worst affected provinces were in the country's rice basket and included Bolikhamsay, Khammuan and Savannakhet. (fao.org)
  • Farmers protecting and living high in the country's mountainous terrain have been overlooked in the past, and "the government should exert an extra effort to reach out more to these upland farmers as they are the ones who suffer the most," says social scientist Delia Catacutan. (mongabay.com)
  • We can provide water to farmers for the first rice crop, starting in the rainy season," he said. (com.vn)
  • The U.S. Department of Agriculture rates 54 percent of the crop as good and 24 percent as excellent. (msucares.com)
  • We cannot cultivate crops the way we do today if we want to create truly sustainable agriculture. (lu.se)
  • Intensive pesticide use has led to insecticide resistance, outbreaks of secondary pests and damage to farmers' health. (cabi.org)
  • Some of this is due to millions of tons of rice being lost to pests, diseases and weeds. (cabi.org)
  • This will capitalize on experiences from different nations and cultures, and seek the best way to fight the main lepidopteran (moths and butterflies) rice pests with natural enemies. (cabi.org)
  • We conducted extensive field surveys in rice fields of Myanmar, Laos, and two provinces in southwestern China (Yunnan and Guangxi), where we searched for promising natural enemies with the potential to fight the most damaging rice pests. (cabi.org)
  • It's also more resistant to pests and diseases compare to citrus and rice. (conservation.org)
  • Based on official data for 2000 wet season production and a tentative forecast for the 2001 dry season, the Mission projects milled rice production for the current marketing year at some 1.28 million tonnes. (fao.org)
  • In addition there are around 22 000 tonnes of bilateral programme and emergency rice aid pledged or delivered for 2001. (fao.org)
  • Total rice availability will amount to approximately 1.30 million tonnes which would entirely cover estimated utilisation needs. (fao.org)
  • To cover the food needs of these vulnerable groups, the Mission advocates a total of 15 000 tonnes of rice, of which 8 680 has already been covered under EMOP6300 and 6311. (fao.org)
  • Up to mid February almost 3 000 tonnes of glutinous rice have been delivered to 111 000 beneficiaries in 266 villages. (fao.org)
  • The farmers have set themselves a target of 1.20 lakh tonnes of pulses as against 70,000 tonnes last year. (thehindu.com)
  • This partnership builds upon an earlier collaboration between IRRI and PhilRice that developed and operationalized a satellite-based rice mapping and monitoring system called PRISM ( Philippine Rice Information System ). (cgiar.org)
  • To grow one kilogram (2.2 pounds) of rice, it takes 3,400 liters (900 gallons) of water. (amnh.org)
  • RMA staff are working with AIPs and other customers by phone, mail and electronically to continue supporting crop insurance coverage for producers. (usda.gov)
  • Operational since 2018, PRISM uses Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite images and a smart detection system to map rice planting areas and planting dates. (cgiar.org)
  • Despite significant improvement of rice production here over the past 15 years, productivity is still low. (cabi.org)
  • Overall, increased productivity in rice is crucial to achieve food security and help meet the targets laid out in the Sustainable Development Goals by the UN . (cabi.org)
  • Right now, they're primarily found in eastern and coastal parishes but may eventually end up in western waters where farmers grow rice. (wbrz.com)
  • in the morning, as farmers and animals began their work, holy men blessed the fields. (nybooks.com)
  • This means that many farmers stumble out of bed and irrigate their fields in the dark. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • He said 25ha of rice fields in the villages of Po Rieng, Rong Krabao and Kork Ampil were flooded, and so were 700ha at the Krakob dam. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • Lay Puthy, deputy director of the provincial water resources department, said that after the rice fields were flooded, the department had opened the bottom of the canals, which would allow the waters to recede so the people's crops were not damaged. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • Carter said they've been a problem in Asian rice paddies but haven't had much affect in East Texan fields, probably because farmers there keep the water levels much lower. (wbrz.com)
  • Louisiana rice farmers might not be so lucky because many also raise crawfish in the fields so they keep the water level much higher. (wbrz.com)
  • The study area of this new technology was undertaken by using a comprehensive questionnaire through a field survey of farmers who had adopted DSR during 2010 to 2019 in five blocks viz. (journalijecc.com)
  • However the Mission notes that the area under dry season cropping may not entirely materialise due to flood damage to irrigation pumps and structures and high pump and other input costs which may deter producers. (fao.org)
  • Sustainable irrigation practices have been approved for federal crop insurance. (farmprogress.com)
  • Delta Farm Press recently asked Hardke to respond to several questions about the value these newly approved irrigation practices bring to Mid-South rice producers. (farmprogress.com)
  • What are the advantages of alternate wetting and drying and furrow irrigation in rice? (farmprogress.com)
  • But these problems were sorted out after long discussions and we got the farmers' nod to go ahead with our experiments on these barren lands," he adds. (rediff.com)
  • But for those farmers who are engaged in 'organic' and 'natural farming method', and with their common ideals of wanting to attain environmental-friendly lands, the establishment of 'Be Good House Of Hualien' has provided them with a channel that eliminates exploitation from traders, and lets the customers understand the ideals they stand for. (globalschoolnet.org)
  • In Hualien, there is a group of farmers who love their lands with passion. (globalschoolnet.org)
  • The main objectives of the Mission were to assess the overall rice supply situation and possible need for food aid for the 2001 marketing year (January/December). (fao.org)
  • Rice features on coats of arms, is appreciated like wine, and the average Asian eats 60kg a year. (scmp.com)
  • According to Statista, the average person in Asia consumes 60.4kg of rice a year, almost double the world average consumption of 38.4kg of rice per person. (scmp.com)
  • He said the crop looks great this year. (msucares.com)
  • And after a year, we plan to hand over the entire project to the farmers," he adds. (rediff.com)
  • Delhi chokes usually around this time of the year as air quality falls to dangerous levels due to burning of crop stubble in the states of Punjab, Haryana and Uttara Pradesh that borders New Delhi. (mainstreamweekly.net)
  • But more than two million tons of rice is harvested each year in California's Central Valley, which gets almost no rainfall for six months each year. (amnh.org)
  • Fortunately, there is a bumper crop [unusually large crop growth and harvest] this year, but farmers are not satisfied with the procurement price [the price at which the state governments buy the produce]. (aljazeera.com)
  • One recent morning, a trader arrived at Padang's house to buy some newly harvested crops. (conservation.org)