Similarly, among farmers who used cover crops, greater yield of cash crops was associated with long-term cover crop use (Fig 2).
She promotes, as most knowledgeable farmers do, more diversity in crops, greater care for the soil, and more support for people who work the land every day.
Our food supply rests on their success, so knowing how honeybees can achieve it, and how we can help, brings us one step closer to maintaining our strong working relationship--which means healthier crops, greater variety in our diet, and an abundant honey supply for all.
For smallholder agriculture, four broad objectives must be pursued: Increased productivity of domestic food crops Greater shifts to high-value commodities Increased linkages to export-oriented sector Expanded non-farm rural employment opportunities.
Since the A, B, and C genomes of Brassica species are of major economic and calorific importance, contributing to a lot of world-wide edible vegetables and oil crops, great progress has been achieved in their genetics and genomics studies (www.brassica.info), especially in the A genome (http://www.brassica-rapa.org/BRGP/index.jsp).jsp
(By comparison, the United States has about 432,000 acres of apples, about 856,000 of citrus trees and 1,044,000 of grapes, the only American fruit crop with greater acreage).
In 2016, the global planting area of this crop was greater than 24,970,000 hm2 and total output approached 45,750,000 tons (the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO).
Since, soybean is a self-pollinated crop, a greater extent of LD is expected as compared to out-crossed crops, such as maize.
Food security in these regions would be strengthened by higher crop yields, greater yield stability, and increased macro- and micro-nutrient quality of staple crops [ 2].
The sustainability of rice production is critical, it is a staple food crop for greater than half the world's population.
