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Showing 1 to 20 of 99 for “"Food crops"”.
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A study of increasing production of basic food crops in Indonesia
… is greatly concerned with the need to increase food production especially rice as the preferred staple food. Several policies and programmes, intended to fill the gap between production and consumption, have been attempted. The import of rice caused a heavy drain on the foreign exchange earnings …
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A study of increasing production of basic food crops in Indonesia
… is greatly concerned with the need to increase food production especially rice as the preferred staple food. Several policies and programmes, intended to fill the gap between production and consumption, have been attempted. The import of rice caused a heavy drain on the foreign exchange earnings …
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Assessment of co-occurrence of cyanotoxins, toxic metals and anionic surfactants in irrigation water, agricultural soils and food crops
… in irrigation water, agricultural soils and food crops and determine the health risks associated with consuming cyanotoxins contaminated plants in the Crocodile (West) Marico Water Management Area, which covers parts of Gauteng and Northwest Provinces. Lastly, the study assessed the …
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Biotechnological applications of UV-B radiation in agri-food crops from La Rioja: grapes and mushrooms as models of quality and sustainability
From the observational methodology approach, this thesis analyses error in chess, conceived as an inherent aspect of the learning process. Errors are manifested both through illegal moves, which reflect an incomplete understanding of the rules, and through erroneous moves, associated with a lack of …
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Socio-Economic Determinants of Modern Agricultural Technology Adoption in Multiple Food Crops and Its Impact on Productivity and Food Availability at the Farm-Level: A Case Study from South-Eastern Nigeria
Farmers generally produce multiple crops while selectively adopting modern technologies to meet various needs. The main aim of this study is, therefore, to identify the range of socio-economic factors influencing the adoption of modern agricultural technology in multiple food crops and the …
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The effect of mutant replication initiation proteins and antisense RNA to the gene on maize streak virus replication
… barley and oats (Kellogg, 1998). Other grass crops are rye, common millet, finger millet, teff, sugarcane and sorghum. Many of these are important food crops in most parts of the world, including Africa. The sustainable production of sufficient and affordable food for a rapidly increasing …
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Environmental transfer of radionuclides in a Sub-Saharan Africa setting
… Given that agricultural practices, diet, soils, food crops, wildlife and climatic conditions in SSA are very different to those in Europe and North America, the present study focuses on environmental radionuclides transfer in SSA and evaluates the extent to which the current generic transfer …
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Life-cycle assessment of Greenhouse Gas emissions from alternative jet fuels
… from the use of biomass feedstocks (particularly food crops) could potentially increase life-cycle GHG emissions to levels several times above that of conventional jet fuel. A scenario analysis was conducted to examine the amount of biofuel needed to displace conventional jet fuel in 2025 to …
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Molecular, cytogenetic, anatomical, and morphological variations associated with polyploids of prairie cordgrass
… challenges, mainly because they use food crops which lead to land-use competition between food and liquid biofuels. In order to minimize competition with food crops, the next generation bioenergy sources should be grown on marginal lands, where food crops cannot be grown. Prairie …
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Simulating long-term food producing capacities in China using a Web-based land evaluation system
… a modeling approach to assess the long-term food producing capacities, and consequently food security, in China using a Web-based land evaluation system (WLES, http://weble.ugent.be). WLES implements a 3-step quantitative land evaluation model which evaluates the realistic yield of a field …
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Identification of endophytic bacterial communities associated with South African crops: sorghum bicolor (L. Moench), pennisetum glaucum and arachis villosulicarpa
… diversity of endophytic bacteria associated with food crops, sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench), pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum L.) and groundnut (Arachis villosulicarpa) is investigated using culture-independent techniques: terminal retriction fragment length polymorphism (t- RFLP) and next …
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Investigating the role of reactor design to maximise the environmental benefit of algal oil for biodiesel
… unrealistic space requirement, competition with food crops for land use and greenhouse gas release on clearing for crop land several times greater than biofuels provide throughdisplacing fossil fuels, a factor inadequately accounted for in past studies. In contrast, biodiesel frommicroalgae is of …
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Evolutionary relationships in Oryza inferred from the gene that encodes the 10 kDa prolamin (seed storage protein) polypeptide
Cereals represent one of the most important food crops in the world. Rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the most commonly consumed cereal grains, and as a result, has considerable economic and agricultural importance, despite their potential as a source of genetic material. The phylogenetic …
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Transgenic Pest Resistant Indica Rice: An Ex-ante Economic Evaluation of an Adoption Impact Pathway in the Philippines and Vietnam for Bt Rice
… debate over the potential release of transgenic food crops into the region. The study provides empirical evidence on the potential size and distribution of economic benefits of adopting Bt Indica rice in the Philippines and Vietnam through the years 2000 to 2020. Total welfare gains from Bt rice …
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Opium production and distribution: Poppies, profits and power in Afghanistan
… who are deprived of the ability to produce their food crops due to violence and the destruction of<br />infrastructure, economic stability to farmers, drug trafficking thrives primarily when a country has been in a state of permanent turmoil, and the Taliban fund their insurgency because of the …
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A Tropical Flour: Manioc in the Afro-Brazilian World, 1500-1800
… and secondary literature on the importance of food plants and cuisine in the later formation of Latin American and Caribbean identities. In following the spatial movement of the root and examining how the African associations attached to manioc were repeatedly renegotiated and redefined, this …
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Metabolic Engineering of a Cyanobacterium to Convert CO2, Water, and Light into a Cyclic Hydrocarbon
… biofuel production from starch and cellulosic crops have given hope in mitigating the human carbon footprint, while decreasing our consumption of fossil fuels. Photosynthetic organisms including plants, algae, and cyanobacteria utilize light energy to convert CO2 into fixed carbon, which is …
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Role of Public Procurement in Improving the Consumption of Millets
The objective of India's food policy ensures that agriculture is remunerative, and farm prices are stable through assured minimum support prices (MSP) to farmers while at the same time ensuring subsidized food access for poor consumers through the Public Distribution System (PDS). One of India's …
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The Genomic Basis of Heterosis in High-Yielding Triploid Hybrids of Willow (Salix spp.) Bioenergy Crops
… energy production from lignocellulosic bioenergy crops such as shrub willow (Salix spp.), can help offset fossil fuel usage without competing with food crops. Hybridization is a key component in shrub willow breeding because hybrids often exhibit heterosis for yield. The genomic basis of heterosis …
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Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Hydroponic Lettuce
… techniques to grow leaf lettuce and other food crops in a controlled environment. Recent controversy about the ongoing inclusion of hydroponics in the USDA organic program has highlighted uncertainty about marketing for hydroponic crops. In November 2017, the National Organic Standards …
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