• Geographic distribution of crop areas, yields, physiological types, and net primary production in the year 2000, Global Biogeochem. (usgs.gov)
  • Yields are falling and pest and disease problems are increasing. (mongabay.com)
  • In response, farmers have followed the same path as their peers the world over and resorted to chemical inputs, where they can get them, to boost yields and fight pests and diseases. (mongabay.com)
  • These tiny compounds boost crop yields, defend against pests and diseases, and promote sustainable farming practices. (harcourthealth.com)
  • With too much heat, crops experience heat stress in which they will wilt, leading to permanent crop damage, or more rapid growth, which translates to less time to take in energy from the sun and thus smaller yields produced. (americansecurityproject.org)
  • Field studies will build on previous efforts to improve crop quality with the goal of a sustainable and resilient asparagus cropping system and capacity for increased yields and competitiveness. (usda.gov)
  • This year's drought, now unleashing consequences in the form of fires and low crop yields, hit his area hard. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Precision agriculture technologies help farmers identify and manage variability within fields and can optimize crop yields, maximize crop quality, and minimize the use of resources. (agclassroom.org)
  • The potential to use new technologies, such as unmanned aerial vehicles, to more accurately map disease and predict yields in vegetable crops, is just one of the many collaborative research projects underway integrating emerging technologies into existing production systems," she said. (zdnet.com)
  • Overall, global agricultural productivity has more than doubled. (bcg.com)
  • These results indicate that improved cropping systems may enhance productivity, sustainability, and economic viability. (avantipublishers.com)
  • Students will investigate and critique a range of regenerative agricultural practices to improving soil health and plant and animal productivity including agroecological design, organics, cropping and livestock management approaches. (edu.au)
  • The ability to identify and address diseases quickly can have a huge impact on a farmer's time, resources, and ultimately the productivity of their crops. (bayer.com)
  • How can we improve agricultural productivity? (ottovonschirach.com)
  • What are the causes of low agricultural productivity? (ottovonschirach.com)
  • What is meant by agricultural productivity? (ottovonschirach.com)
  • Agricultural productivity is measured as the ratio of agricultural outputs to inputs. (ottovonschirach.com)
  • What agricultural term is used to describe food production productivity? (ottovonschirach.com)
  • The agricultural productivity is low due to small size of holdings. (ottovonschirach.com)
  • What are the factors affecting agricultural productivity? (ottovonschirach.com)
  • If the world's farmers would have continued to grow crops at 1961 productivity levels, they would need almost 2.5 billion acres of new farmland to maintain today's food supply, which is more than the total land area of the United States. (agclassroom.org)
  • 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)
  • The first genetically modified crop, the Flavr Savr tomato, hit the market in 1994, followed in short order by -numerous genetically modified corn, -potato, and cotton varieties. (bcg.com)
  • Disease-Resistant Genetically Modified (GM) Traits. (bcg.com)
  • Despite the scientific complexity of these efforts, agricultural-input companies continue to research ways to boost yield through genetically engineered and native output traits. (bcg.com)
  • This can be done with conventional plant breeding methodes, but these often take many years and are labour-intensive, especially for crops that are genetically complex, such as wheat. (wur.nl)
  • Agricultural Research Service scientist Jesse de León and colleagues are applying molecular tools to genetically characterize the Asian citrus psyllid. (isaaa.org)
  • Genetically modified crops have been available for decades and some are already widely used in Australian agriculture, particularly cotton and canola. (abc.net.au)
  • Committee on genetically engineered crops: past experience and future prospects. (medlineplus.gov)
  • genetically engineered crops: experiences and prospects. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Different types of urban agriculture exist: basic backyard farming in or around the house, cultivation of stable crops such as maize on (temporary) fallow land, and cultivation of ornamental plants, mostly along roadsides. (cdc.gov)
  • 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)
  • Preliminary results show that there is a change in land use from more complex and labor-intensive production systems, such as Banana / coffee for extensive cultivation of pile crops or open shrubs with scattered cultivation. (lu.se)
  • Crop specific nutrients, micro nutrients and crop boosters have been developed and recommended to the farmers for adoption. (tnau.ac.in)
  • Through a combination of scientific innovations, technology, and products, we offer farmers tailored solutions to not only spot disease early but prevent it from taking hold altogether. (bayer.com)
  • Innovative solutions like fungicides are a critical tool for farmers to control the spread of fungi-borne diseases. (bayer.com)
  • At Bayer we work to provide fungicides that help farmers combat fungi and diseases and are safe for the environment and the food supply. (bayer.com)
  • Farmers growing arable crops often specialise in growing only one crop to maximise their profits. (ottovonschirach.com)
  • USDA is investing $169.9 million through the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP) to support farmers growing specialty crops, including fruits, vegetables, tree nuts and nursery crops. (usda.gov)
  • Today's Prairie farmers are seeding crops, such as soybeans, that their predecessors never would have planted. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • And agricultural companies are breeding plants to become more resistant to a variety of troubles that plague farmers, ranging from disease to precipitation fluctuations. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • The Queensland government has announced it is deploying Ergon Energy internet-connected meters in the state's northern region as a "significant" step towards helping local farmers minimise the spread of Panama disease, a fungus that affects the tissues of the banana plant. (zdnet.com)
  • The Queensland government amended the Agricultural Chemicals Distribution Control Act 1966 last year to allow the state's farmers to use drones to spray their crops . (zdnet.com)
  • Farmers should invest in perennial crops instead of growing annuals, such as rice. (lu.se)
  • Diesel emissions from agricultural machinery drop drastically and farmers can use fewer pesticides and herbicides. (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)
  • It is estimated that fungal pathogens are responsible for crop losses of up to 30% worldwide. (bayer.com)
  • Researchers found that recent climate trends in temperate regions of the United States, Europe, and China are compatible for fungal pathogens and viruses infecting crop species. (americansecurityproject.org)
  • Magdoff F, van Es H. Building Soils for Better Crops, 3rd ed. (avantipublishers.com)
  • The search for better crops has been going on for centuries and is known as plant breeding. (wur.nl)
  • As a result, agricultural-input companies have been focusing largely on making -incremental improvements to existing -technologies, including the development of new stacked traits in corn, soybeans, and cotton, for example, and of new germplasm through gene sequencing and breeding innovations. (bcg.com)
  • Cotton, corn, and soybeans are the main GE crops grown in the United States. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Macro and micro nutrient deficiency problems in major crops are being addressed through advanced research and development programme. (tnau.ac.in)
  • This innovative reference combines theory with current global practices involved in the biological control of diseases in 12 major crops highlighting the day-to-day challenges of organic crop management for cost-effective real-world application. (chipsbooks.com)
  • Although three different pathogens cause ascochyta diseases of pea, the symptoms are relatively similar to one another, thus making diagnosis difficult. (wikipedia.org)
  • Increasing migration rates due to climate change favors the spread of infectious disease, as pathogens travel with human vectors to new communities. (americansecurityproject.org)
  • Assuring the quality of river water routinely used for irrigation of crops is crucial as it can be a source association between the use of contaminated irrigation of foodborne pathogens (2,5) . (who.int)
  • When polluted water is water and several foodborne disease outbreaks involving used for irrigation, fruits and vegetables may absorb pathogens like Shigella , norovirus and Escherichia coli contaminants introduced into the soil (5,6) . (who.int)
  • Interestingly, the fungal species, G. idaeicola, was first described on wild Rubus in Oregon and Washington by a mycologist in 2008, but its potential ability to cause plant diseases was not studied. (usda.gov)
  • On the negative side there are many fungal species that cause plant diseases and pose a high threat by crop loss, however some members of this fungal family also act as biocontrol agents in preventing the pathogenic members. (databasefootball.com)
  • The crops must also be sprayed with herbicides and pesticides to prevent damage from pests and plant diseases. (lu.se)
  • This has led to increasing problems with weeds, pests and plant diseases, in turn resulting in increased dependency on chemical herbicides and pesticides. (lu.se)
  • Years 1-2: Laboratory experiments will be conducted to develop and optimize existing temperature independent recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) methods for detecting Phytophthora species affecting West Coast (California and Oregon) nursery crops. (usda.gov)
  • WASHINGTON, Oct. 28, 2021 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced an investment of more than $243 million in grants to support specialty crops, including fruits, vegetables, tree nuts and nursery crops through two USDA programs - the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program and the Specialty Crop Research Initiative grants program. (usda.gov)
  • Crop rotations and the inclusion of cover crops and green manures are primary tools in the sustainable management of soil-borne diseases in crop production systems. (avantipublishers.com)
  • A hybrid model was developed by combining multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) with the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and a fuzzy set to give decision support for choosing sustainable solutions to agricultural problems. (mdpi.com)
  • Home / Research and expertise / Institutes / Sustainable Earth Institute / Is agricultural technology the answer to the global food security crisis? (plymouth.ac.uk)
  • ensure food production systems are sustainable by implementing resilient agricultural practices by 2030. (plymouth.ac.uk)
  • This approach protects crops while promoting sustainable farming practices. (harcourthealth.com)
  • We cannot cultivate crops the way we do today if we want to create truly sustainable agriculture. (lu.se)
  • 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)
  • Department of Agricultural Entomology under Centre for Plant Protection Studies will take care of development of pest management practices. (tnau.ac.in)
  • Monitoring and managing the invasive diseases, providing disease forecast and management practices, production of bio-control agents for managing diseases are major activities under Disease management unit. (tnau.ac.in)
  • In long-term cropping system trials, rotations incorporating multiple soil health management practices, such as longer rotations, disease-suppressive rotation crops, cover crops, and green manures, and/or organic amendments have resulted in greater yield and microbial activity and fewer disease problems than standard rotations. (avantipublishers.com)
  • The interventions feature innovative participatory and climate-adaptive agricultural practices to enrich and restore agro-ecosystem health, manage crop pests and diseases, and improve livelihoods. (cabi.org)
  • The GHISA derived hyperspectral library (example Figure B below) will be of immense value to understand, model, map, and monitor agricultural crops within and across agroecological zones ( Figure B ). (usgs.gov)
  • Beginning in the early 1990s, agricultural--input companies introduced a string of innovative seeds, pesticides, and herbicides that have since transformed how our food is grown. (bcg.com)
  • who apply these pesticides onto crops. (cdc.gov)
  • Antibiotics and antifungals (fungicides) are sometimes applied as pesticides to manage plant and crop diseases. (cdc.gov)
  • Pesticides are a class of chemicals designed to kill pests (rodents, insects, or plants) that may affect agricultural crops or carry diseases like malaria and typhus. (cdc.gov)
  • These diseases are conducive under wet and humid conditions and can cause a yield loss of up to fifty percent if left uncontrolled. (wikipedia.org)
  • Climate change affects the food supply in other ways too, as changing precipitation patterns alter growing season and crop yield, and increased temperatures induces crop heat stress and impact poultry living conditions. (americansecurityproject.org)
  • While individual products are usually measured by weight, which is known as crop yield, varying products make measuring overall agricultural output difficult. (ottovonschirach.com)
  • Intensive farming uses machines, fertilisers, man-power and high-yield crops to maximise the amount of food produced. (ottovonschirach.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • This webpage showcases the key research advances made in hyperspectral remote sensing of agricultural crops and vegetation over the last 50 years. (usgs.gov)
  • The primary focus is on the seminal research conducted over the last 20 years by this group using hyperspectral data of agricultural crops and vegetation, gathered from around the world, from various platforms: ground-based, platform-mounted, drone or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based, airborne, and spaceborne. (usgs.gov)
  • My research is focussed on the use of remote sensing technology (ground-based, airborne and satellite) in measuring and monitoring vegetation structure and dynamics, especially in forested and agricultural environments. (ncl.ac.uk)
  • I have particular interests in the estimation of forest and crop health, including vegetation stress and disease detection. (ncl.ac.uk)
  • Many of the researchers who have looked at HIV / AIDS are from medicine or anthropology / demography, and it has long been agreed that a loss of labor through disease must affect the possibilities of farming, and also that the natural vegetation can be affected (there are Stories about how all forests have been cut down to have tricky needles). (lu.se)
  • By looking at satellite images about 10 years apart, it is possible to follow changes in land use and vegetation over time, and the purpose of the project is to quantify land change of predominantly different types of agricultural land. (lu.se)
  • As a staple food crop in South East Asia, rice is a key driver of the countries' economies and essential to the diets and livelihoods of the billions of people who live here. (cabi.org)
  • oryzae (Xoo) is one of the most destructive diseases in rice. (bvsalud.org)
  • Chinese researchers have used the technology to make barley resistant to a fungal disease known as powdery mildew, and the results are now being replicated in wheat. (abc.net.au)
  • At the same time, Kernza in particular can be cultivated in various types of climate as the crop is probably more hardy than wheat, for example. (lu.se)
  • Malaria is predominantly a rural disease in Africa. (cdc.gov)
  • While more than 4,000 cases of cholera and seven deaths have been reported from the disease, health officials are also concerned about a rise in malaria due to the standing water…" (De Vleeschauwer, 4/12). (kff.org)
  • Research from the U.S. National Library of Medicine estimates that costs associated with rising cases of malaria, diarrheal diseases, and malnutrition may reach anywhere from $4 billion to $12 billion by 2030. (americansecurityproject.org)
  • Today, we use plant breeding mainly to make crop plants resistant to drought, diseases and pests, for example. (wur.nl)
  • The changes will enable agricultural scientists to breed higher yielding crops faster and cheaper, or ones resistant to drought and disease. (abc.net.au)
  • 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)
  • Bayer is working to create microbials that use beneficial fungi, bacteria, and other microorganisms to help plants better absorb nutrients and ward off pests and disease. (bayer.com)
  • The 56 grant recipients fund sub-awards for activities and programs to increase demand for agricultural goods and address issues facing the specialty crop industry including food safety, plant pests and disease, research, education, and marketing and promotion. (usda.gov)
  • Basic and Strategic research on Natural / Organic / Biodynamic Farming is being carried out at Nammazhavar Organic Farming Research Centre under Directorate of Crop Management. (tnau.ac.in)
  • Research on Natural farming technologies, organic agricultural inputs and biodynamic farming are being carried out in this centre. (tnau.ac.in)
  • Grandy AS, Porter GA, Erich MS. Organic amendment and rotation crop effects on the recovery of soil organic matter and aggregation in potato cropping systems. (avantipublishers.com)
  • SCRI program investments address critical challenges facing conventional and organic food and agricultural production systems across the specialty crop industry. (usda.gov)
  • The efficacy of rotations for reducing soil-borne diseases is dependent on several factors, including crop type, rotation length, rotation sequence, and use of the crop (as full-season rotation, cover crop, or green manure). (avantipublishers.com)
  • In general, all crops provided better disease control when used as green manure vs. as a cover crop, but the addition of a cover crop can improve control provided by most rotation crops. (avantipublishers.com)
  • The technique could, for example, make agricultural crops resistant to certain diseases. (wur.nl)
  • By cross-breeding plants that have shown a natural resistance to certain diseases, we can create crops more likely to thrive despite the threat of plant disease. (bayer.com)
  • Years of field research with Brassica and non-Brassica rotation crops in potato cropping systems in Maine have documented the efficacy of Brassica green manures for the reduction of multiple soil-borne diseases. (avantipublishers.com)
  • Panth M, Hassler SC, Baysal-Gurel F. Methods for management of soil-borne diseases in crop production. (avantipublishers.com)
  • Other methods-chemical control, biological control, and development of resistant varieties-may also be used to effectively control ascochyta diseases. (wikipedia.org)
  • One way to harness modern plant breeding is to develop varieties that are naturally disease resistent. (bayer.com)
  • If approved, the reforms will have wide ranging benefits for agriculture research, and could speed up the research and commercialisation of disease, salt or drought-resistant crops, or high yielding varieties. (abc.net.au)
  • The funds went directly to boosting business growth across the sector in close collaboration with industry priorities such as new varieties, crop protection, and farming systems," Acting Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries Leeanne Enoch said in a statement. (zdnet.com)
  • Over the past 70 years, innovation in seeds, fertilizers, and crop protection products has reshaped the agriculture market and transformed the lives of billions around the world. (bcg.com)
  • we should continue to use existing plant breeding methods (such as mutating, hybridising and selecting) with innovative farming techniques such as precision agriculture and crop diversity. (wur.nl)
  • In agriculture, we are developing products containing microbes that can be applied to plants or seeds to complement - or provide an alternative to - chemical crop protection products. (bayer.com)
  • This historic level of funding will help the specialty crops industry recover from the effects of the pandemic," said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. (usda.gov)
  • In addition to fungi that cause the common, non-lethal 'cane diseases' in Oregon, we isolated a fungus called Gnomoniopsis idaeicola. (usda.gov)
  • Fungicides work by inhibiting the growth of the fungus or destroying it completely, thereby enabling crop plants to thrive on. (bayer.com)
  • Another fungus called Saccharomyces cerevisiae, or baker's yeast , has also been used domestically in doughs for over 4,000 years and plays a huge role in research on metabolism, aging, neurodegenerative diseases, and much more. (databasefootball.com)
  • 2. To monitor fungi and oomycetes present in native and large-scale ornamental nurseries and assess species pathogenicity and environmental conditions favoring disease. (usda.gov)
  • Three fungi contribute to the ascochyta blight disease complex of pea (Pisum sativum). (wikipedia.org)
  • The most common crop diseases are spread by fungi that finde their way to leaf surfaces, where environmental elements like the wind and rain help spread their spores to nearby plants, posing a serious threat to a farmer's crop. (bayer.com)
  • Some fungi make our lives easier, while others can make us or our crops sick. (databasefootball.com)
  • As many as thirty percent of genes associated with human diseases have similar copies in fungi making it possible to understand important human genes using experimental fungal organisms. (databasefootball.com)
  • In India the crop is grown either from seed mixed with finger millet, or as a pure stand. (fao.org)
  • Asian citrus psyllid is responsible for transmitting the citrus greening disease also called Huanglongbing. (isaaa.org)
  • Ever-tightening restrictions on freedom of movement, prolonged curfews, military incursions deep into population centres, demolitions of houses, the destruction of agricultural crops, the uprooting of citrus and olive groves and widespread damage to infrastructure had left behind a heavy toll on the economic, social and psychological well-being of the people as well as service delivery and quality. (who.int)
  • However, they have also indicated that these crops can provide disease control even when not incorporated as green manures and that other non-biofumigant crops (such as barley, ryegrass, and buckwheat) can also be effective in disease suppression. (avantipublishers.com)
  • Integrated Disease Management with more focus on biological control methods are being developed for managing the diseases in agricultural crops. (tnau.ac.in)
  • In addition to exploring biological crop protectants. (bayer.com)
  • In Ethiopia, the crop is sown to avoid frost. (fao.org)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Since perennial crops do not need to be sown every year, soil erosion can be reduced and nutrient leaching can be minimised. (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)
  • Like the food situation, drought and flood conditions caused by climate change deplete water supplies and make infectious disease spread more likely. (americansecurityproject.org)
  • A long-term drought that has hit two-thirds of Mexico looks set to worsen in coming weeks, with forecasts warning of high temperatures, crop damage and water supply shortages on the horizon, including in the populous capital. (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
  • All India Coordinated Research Project on Weed Management unit at the Department of Agronomy, Directorate of Crop Management, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore in coordination with the ICAR- Directorate of Weed Research is functioning to take care of research on management of weeds, herbicide residual analysis and long term effect of herbicide use for management of weeds. (tnau.ac.in)
  • Input companies continue to conduct -research in seeds, traits, and chemical crop protection, of course. (bcg.com)
  • While it might be hard to buck population trends or bridge the political and socio-economic factors that influence the world we live in, we can certainly strive for improvement in global agricultural industries, starting with developing our understanding through research. (plymouth.ac.uk)
  • USDA also announced an investment of nearly $74 million to 21 award recipients through its Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) grants program. (usda.gov)
  • ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly was informed on Wednesday that the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) had developed ten hybrids of maize, sunflower, canola and fodder to increase their production. (com.pk)
  • To a question, Rajab Ali Baloch said National Agricultural Research Centre had developed a bio-radiation model for waste water treatment for irrigation. (com.pk)
  • Last month, the Queensland government said it had invested more than AU$120 million into agricultural research and development in 2016/17. (zdnet.com)
  • 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)
  • Within this research field, various approaches are being tested to develop perennial crops. (lu.se)
  • We ascertained potential cases by reviewing histopathology, culture, and Aspergillus galactomannan results and classified patients as having an IMD case (based on European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer/Invasive Fungal Infections Cooperative Group and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Mycoses Study Group [MSG] criteria) or a non-MSG IMD case (based on the treating clinician's diagnosis and use of mold-active antifungal therapy). (cdc.gov)
  • BACKGROUND: Invasive mold diseases (IMDs) cause severe illness, but public health surveillance data are lacking. (cdc.gov)
  • The number of active ingredients in new crop protection products introduced annually has fallen off dramatically, from more than 30 in 2000 to well under 20 by 2018. (bcg.com)
  • BG ), is a vertically integrated food and feed ingredient company, supplying raw and processed agricultural commodities and specialized food ingredients to a wide range of customers in the animal feed, food processor, foodservice and bakery industries. (prnewswire.com)
  • Not for use on agricultural establishments growing agricultural crops or commodities for resale. (arbico-organics.com)
  • 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)
  • Antibiotics and antifungals are sometimes given to food animals to treat, control, and prevent diseases. (cdc.gov)
  • Agricultural systems are in need of low-cost, safe antibiotics to protect crops from pests and diseases. (bvsalud.org)
  • Beyond these points, climate change and infectious disease also have implications on food and water availability and as a result, threaten human and economic security. (americansecurityproject.org)
  • The increasing frequency of infectious diseases due to climate change will have tremendous economic implications for communities everywhere. (americansecurityproject.org)
  • It's not all bad news: Mr. Mauro notes Canada's relatively cooler climate, coupled with resiliency measures, could give the country's agricultural sector an edge as global weather patterns become more severe. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Climate change encourages new and existing pests and diseases to spread and makes management more difficult. (cabi.org)
  • The Michigan Asparagus Advisory Board will partner with researchers at Michigan State University to develop strategies to mitigate the destructive diseases that affect Michigan's $23 million asparagus industry. (usda.gov)
  • Government figures estimate that some 715,000 hectares of crops were flooded or destroyed in all of Mozambique. (kff.org)
  • Alarmingly, an estimated 10% of this irrigated pollution, which involves the introduction of harmful agricultural land, equivalent to 20 million hectares of substances or pollutants into water bodies (2,3) . (who.int)
  • Crop rotation and intercropping with Allium plants suppresses Fusarium wilt in various crops. (nature.com)
  • In Japan and China, crop rotation and intercropping with Allium plants, such as Welsh onion ( Allium fistulosum ), onion ( A . cepa ), and Chinese chive ( A . tuberosum ), reportedly prevent the Fusarium wilt of bottle gourds ( Lagenaria siceraria ), spinach ( Spinacia oleracea ), tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum ), and banana ( Musa spp. (nature.com)
  • Previous work by the American Security Project discussed how increasing temperatures around the globe create conditions that favor the spread of viruses and bacteria that cause infectious diseases. (americansecurityproject.org)
  • How is food connected to infectious disease? (americansecurityproject.org)
  • These changes can have grave impacts on malnutrition rates, and in turn exacerbate the spread of infectious disease as compromised immune systems have a harder time fighting the illness. (americansecurityproject.org)
  • Those suffering from malnourishment are in turn more likely to contract infectious diseases, have worse symptoms, and have diminishing responses to treatment. (americansecurityproject.org)
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates an additional 250,000 deaths per year globally from malnourishment, infectious disease, and increasing heat by 2050. (americansecurityproject.org)
  • Both factors make the spread of infectious diseases to humans through drinking water more likely. (americansecurityproject.org)
  • Globally , contaminated water has a tremendous health toll, as about 829,000 people die each year from contracting an infectious disease via water. (americansecurityproject.org)
  • However as control of these infectious diseases is hopefully achieved they will be replaced by a growing population of those with long term respiratory conditions which in many cases reflect current lifestyle changes. (who.int)
  • Chagas disease (CD), also known as American Trypanosomiasis, is an infectious parasitic disease caused by the etiologic agent Trypanosoma cruzi . (bvsalud.org)
  • In the breadbasket of Canada, we are likely to see a boom in our agricultural system. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • A survey of the occurrence of Chagas disease in the State of Acre was performed using public domain secondary data from the Brazil's Notifiable Diseases Information System of SUS (publicly funded health care system), and from the SUS Database of the Health Surveillance Foundation of the State of Acre. (bvsalud.org)
  • For best control, apply as a protective spray early in the season before diseases are noticed. (arbico-organics.com)
  • Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry and Department of Crop Physiology are taking care of management of nutrient deficiency related issues in agricultural crops. (tnau.ac.in)
  • Crops are struggling under these hot, dry and increasingly nutrient poor conditions. (mongabay.com)
  • This is due to the major challenges involved in making perennial crops operational. (lu.se)
  • If agricultural-input companies are to help meet the growing demand for food and remain competitive with new digitally driven businesses that are entering the field, they must break out of their traditional innovation models and get their product development efforts back on track fast. (bcg.com)
  • Is agricultural technology the answer to the global food security crisis? (plymouth.ac.uk)
  • Humans have been using plant breeding techniques to improve food and crops for thousands of years. (bayer.com)
  • This development could boost agricultural output and solve food security concerns worldwide. (harcourthealth.com)
  • These diseases can be difficult to control and extremely damaging because they can impact farm income and the food supply. (cdc.gov)
  • The program's priority focus areas include improving crop characteristics, managing threats from pests and diseases, improving production efficiency, profitability, and technological innovation, and mitigating food safety hazards. (usda.gov)
  • 1 The increase in U.S. food production is directly related to the advancement of agricultural technology. (agclassroom.org)
  • They are also very detrimental for agricultural crops and food materials. (brisbane-australia.com)
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cannot attest to the accuracy of a non-federal website. (cdc.gov)
  • Permethrin was detected in 24 of Agency for Toxic Substances pyrethroids onto crops. (cdc.gov)
  • In the 1980s, scientists began using biotechnology, a method of transferring beneficial genes conferring desirable traits like disease resistance directly plants in a faster, more efficient and precise fashion that through traditional breeding techniques. (bayer.com)
  • Using biotechnology, scientists developed the Rainbow Papaya by inserting a gene that allowed the plant to resist the disease and thrive. (bayer.com)
  • This programme addresses this and aims to build resilience of the communities to pests and diseases and their management. (cabi.org)
  • The advisory meeting in Montpellier, France on 11-12 February 2002 comprised the next step in the process of developing a comprehensive implementation programme of the WHO strategy against chronic respiratory diseases. (who.int)
  • Location of urban agricultural (UA) sites and households surveyed within Accra, Ghana. (cdc.gov)
  • However, potato production is rapidly expanding in tropical and subtropical agro-ecologies of the world in Asia and Africa, which present a unique set of problems for the crop and affect the way viruses can be managed. (cipotato.org)
  • In: Campos H., Ortiz O. (eds) The Potato Crop. (cipotato.org)
  • Brassicas, sudangrass, and related plant types are disease-suppressive crops well-known for their biofumigation potential but also have other effects on soil microbiology that are important in disease suppression. (avantipublishers.com)
  • Due to their expertise and commitment to sustainability, Lotilabs is driving the agricultural peptide revolution. (harcourthealth.com)
  • For example, just a few years ago, growers may have only noticed and acted upon disease pressure once it was widespread in their fields and visible to the naked eye. (bayer.com)
  • Hubbard RK, Strickland RC, Phatak S. Effects of cover crop systems on soil physical properties and carbon/nitrogen relationships in the coastal plain of southeastern USA. (avantipublishers.com)
  • Perennial crops such as Kernza have also proven to be better at reducing nitrogen leaching and building up humus content. (lu.se)