Sentence examples for crop competitiveness from inspiring English sources

A second component of the ecological approach is to strengthen crop competitiveness with cultural practices.

Combining three practices together improved crop competitiveness three- to five-fold.

As a result, greater crop competitiveness decreased risk of incomplete weed control as atrazine dose was reduced.

In December 2004, the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004 authorized the U.S. Department of Agriculture USDAA) to provide state assistance for specialty crop competitiveness programs.

A possible solution is ecologically based weed management, where cropping systems are designed to lower weed community densities and improve crop competitiveness to weeds.

Elevating crop competitiveness against weeds, through a combination of wheat breeding and innovative planting design (planting density, row spacing and orientation), has strong potential to reduce weed-induced yield losses in wheat.

Equally, such a group friendship can be wrought with difficulty, as differences of opinion about parenting styles crop up, competitiveness over raising children falls into the mix and even arguments over how one child is treating another can become a little too personal.

Compared to other starchy crops, the competitiveness of cassava lies in the capacity for starch accumulation, and the tolerance to drought and the deprivation of soil nutrients; cassava roots contain starch up to 70 to 90percentt of the root dry weight [ 1] and cassava plants can grow under water scarcity and in low fertilized soil [ 3].

Research has proved that alternation of cultural practices, and selection of competitive crop cultivars, could be a possible strategy to minimize the competitiveness of weeds.

The competitiveness of crop cultivars has been observed to decrease along with breeding progress.

Viewed as an energy crop only, the commercial competitiveness of energy forests is often low.