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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"paddy rice"”.
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Estudio de mejora de la productividad de la infraestructura civil, maquinaria y personal que labora en la Empresa Arrocera Molino Buenos Aires en Camaná
… 70,000 citizens who live in this city. Rice and bean production are the 2 most important activities in economic activity. We have 7,500 arable hectares that are planted with rice in the “big season” that occurs between October and March of each year. In the "small campaign" 4,500 ha are …
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Evaluation of spatial prediction methods for selected soil properties to support land suitability mapping for rice in Zambia.
Rice is one of the staple food crops and is a profitable smallholder cash crop in Zambia. It has the potential to contribute to increased incomes and employment among rural producers. However, rice is the only staple crop for which domestic production does not meet domestic demand due to low …
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Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture: Opportunities and Challenges for Food Security and Agrarian Adaptation to Environmental Change in Bangladesh
… (SAI) in the context of Bangladeshi rice production. The first article presents a qualitative analysis of SAI and farmer surveys in the embanked polder region of coastal Bangladesh. The second article investigates the global food security and environmental impacts of already adopted …
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Rice preparation for cadmium and arsenic reduction while maintaining a healthy microbial load
Paddy rice is a major source of exposure, globally, to the carcinogen and nephrotoxin cadmium and the carcinogen inorganic arsenic. As rice is a dietary staple, this makes rice production highly problematic. Thus, if cadmium and inorganic arsenic can be reduced in rice, even in rice based processed …
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Weathering of sulfide ores in model soils, potentially toxic element release and bioavailability
… (FeAsS) and cinnabar (HgS) into soil matrices (0.1 % mineral:soil m/m), and the bioavailability of the liberated PTEs to important food crops (Tricitum aestivum, wheat and Oryza sativa, rice). All three of the ores underwent chemical weathering in oxic agricultural soils of both temperate …
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MODELLING THE INTERACTION BETWEEN WILD AND CULTIVATED SPECIES.
… cropping systems worldwide, e.g., in the case of rice weeds they can reach 60%. However, in the broader sense, wild species may also have positive effects on cropping systems for their capability to provide environmental benefits. In fact, they are fundamental to maintain high levels of …
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SNP ANALYSIS FOR DROUGHT-RELATED CANDIDATE GENES IN A GERMPLASM COLLECTION AND A TILLING POPULATION OF ITALIAN RICE
Rice is the most important food crop in the world, representing the main source of caloric intake for more than one third of the world’s population. Although a great part of the global rice production comes from the developing countries such as China, India, Indonesia and Bangladesh, northern Italy …
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GENETIC DISSECTION OF PINE1 CONTROLLED STEM ELONGATION AND NEW INSIGHTS INTO LONG DAY FLOWERING IN ORYZA SATIVA
Rice flowering is promoted by exposure to short days (SD) and occurs through the coordination of two developmental processes: the shoot apical meristem (SAM) produces an inflorescence while, along the stem, internodes elongate to allow heading. Recently, PREMATURE INTERNODE ELONGATION1 (PINE1), a …
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Eco-compensation, Water Management and Political Power in China
… watersheds are paid to convert from growing paddy rice to less water-intensive crops, and to reduce fertiliser use. The declared purpose is to increase the water supply to Beijing city, and improve water quality. Applying a political ecology approach, the case examines the history of water …
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Economic Analysis of Farm Household Perceptions and Preferences for Salinity Intrusion Risk Reduction in the Mekong River Delta
… of farmers planting three, rather than two, rice crops per year have generally extended the total area of salinity intrusion in the MRD. Adverse impacts of this increased salinity on rice and other forms of agricultural production are now occurring, and are expected to get worse; with severe …