Crop production and yields
Socio-economic drivers of crop yields
... high crop and feed production costs, including timeliness costs, the high oppor- tunity cost of labour and various indirect costs related to manure logistics and other farm organisation, can be reduced ...
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Climate Change Influence on Crop Yields and Crop Yield Variability in Nigeria
... influencing crop production which includes soil, relief, climate and diseases among ...affects crop productivity which leads to the variations of production in this sector which have ...
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Biochar boosts tropical but not temperate crop yields
... Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar were searched using ‘ biochar AND crop productivity OR crop production OR crop yield ’ . The cut-off date for inclusion of studies in the database was ...
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Spatial patterns of crop yields in Latin America and the Caribbean:
... medium-resolution crop production data to examine patterns of yield variation and variability across a regional ...agricultural production data set available for the LAC ...
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C hapter IMPROVEMENT RESOURCES Improvement in Crop Yields
... • Crop variety improvement • Crop production improvement • Crop protection ...a crop variety that can give a good ...high yields. One way of incorporating desirable characters ...
Effects of Supplemental Irrigation on Crop Yields: Case Study Kales (Brassica Oleracea) Crop.
... rainfall received in some grain growing areas (Economic Survey, 2014). According to Kulshreshtha [2011], the changes in rainfall will directly affect the quan- tity and quality of produce and in Central Kenya significant ...
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Meta-analysis of climate impacts and uncertainty on crop yields in Europe
... on crop production through experimentation, so yield impact is usually assessed through a combination of estima- tion methods involving biophysical or statistical crop models, which themselves ...
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The effect of perennial forage crop on grain yields in submontane regions
... on production indicators of crop and ani- mal production including ...of crop production expressed by grain yield and to what ...potato production and mountain regions at an ...
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Changes in crop yields and their variability at different levels of global warming
... in crop production under ...point yields are aggre- gated to the regions assuming fixed year-2000 land use and irrigation ...gridded yields, using pro- duction gives less weight to areas where ...
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Mulch effect on successive crop yields and soil carbon in Tonga
... and crop yields showed a higher net profit compared to the ...this crop. The longer-term benefits of mulch on crop yield and soil C were not the subject of this research but this is now being ...
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Effects of No-Tillage Production Practices on Crop Yields as Influenced by Crop and Growing Environment Factors
... no-tillage yields increase over time relative to tillage yields through soil ...experiment. CROP and ERS were not interacted because all crops were not present in each ERS Farm Resource ...
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Application of wireless technologies to forward predict crop yields in the poultry production chain
... (1. Biosystems Engineering, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland; 2.Department of Applied Sciences, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Louth, Ireland; 3.Intelligent Mechatronics and RFID Gateway, Tralee ...
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Trend yields and the crop insurance program
... same crop in a given year but rotates two different crops (corn/soybeans), that producer could have a 20 year old yield in the ...Those yields are not representative of current production practices ...
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An Exploration of the Spatial Dependence Structure of Crop Yields and the Implications for Crop Insurance
... federal crop insurance ...in crop prices rather than production losses covered by traditional crop ...The production flexibility contracts encouraged farmers to respond to market forces ...
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Spatial Patterns of Crop Yields in Latin America and the Caribbean
... rainfed production, it has lead to greater variability across locations since a significant share of LAC production remains in rainfed and mixed rainfed-irrigated farming ...industrial crop rather ...
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The Effects of Drought on Crop Yields and Yield Variability in Sahel
... The SPI is positively related to the mean yield and yield variability of maize and statistically significant only in the mean function. The estimated coefficient in the mean function indicates that an increase in wet ...
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Effect of Corn Residue Removal on Subsequent Crop Yields
... Corn yields ranged from a low of 128 bu/ac in 2009 to a high of 162 bu/ac in 2011, with a median of 155 ...of production, UNL grazing recommendations would have been to stock at ...
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Influence of Wild Bee Diversity on Canola Crop Yields
... Productivity of canola crops To assess the productivity of canola crops, once siliques had matured, 20 plants were harvested and spaced 1.5 m apart, forming 225 m 2 plots in each field, totaling three harvest plots per ...
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Strategies to increase crop yields in a climate change scenario
... of crop yields, especially in arid regions. Development of new crop cultivars with enhanced tolerance to drought and salinity is probably the most promising strategy to improve agricultural ...
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Lime and gypsum combination improves crop and forage yields and estimated meat production and revenue in a variable charge tropical soil.
... cattle production due to low forage supply because the pastures are usually ...annual crop rotation with pasture in tropical NT system using corn intercropped with palisade grass is a promising option for ...
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