Sentence examples for cereal acreage from inspiring English sources
In this time, the area planted in the big three increased from about two-thirds of cereal acreage to nearly 80percentt; yields per acre rose sharply as well.
By the mid-15th century, barley, a cereal known to be somewhat poorly suited for breadmaking but excellent for brewing, accounted for 27% of all cereal acreage in England.
There has been an expansion of cereal acreage, wheat, maize and rice, at the expense of the cultivated area of cotton and green fodder crops.
The tendency is for the acreage of cereals to fall as yields increase and industrial crops require more land.
Despite its relatively low acreage compared to other cereals, rye is of great importance due to its broad tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress, a feature generally lacking in other temperate cereals.
The Central Statistical Authority (2010) reported that tef constitutes 19% of the gross grain production of all the major cereal cultivated in the country and 24% of the total acreage of cereals planted in Ethiopia.
In any case, food legumes occupy a minimal part of arable land, mostly dominated by cereal crops [99]; soybean represents the most important and cultivated legume, acreage of which reached 117.72 million ha in 2014 (steadily increased over years, see also Table 3), which is about that of the other grain legumes, but still far below the major cereals (e.g. rice, wheat, maize).
Between 1999 and 2000, organic acreage has risen by 17percentt, mainly driven by an increase in cereals and forage crops.
The acreage of maize is on the increase in conventional and conservation agriculture-based cereal systems of India in recent years.
Barley (Hordeum vulgare L). is one of the first cereals domesticated in the Fertile Crescent [ 1] and today it is the fourth most important crop species concerning acreage next to wheat, maize, and rice [ 2].
