Sentence examples for crop resources from inspiring English sources

By preserving their traditional agricultural practices, small-scale farmers conserve not only crop resources, but also many wild varieties associated with their traditional systems, an approach to food sovereignty that emphasizes local values, autonomy, and biodiversity.

In April 2007, the Department of Science and Technology Education of the Ministry of Agriculture released an investigation and assessment letter to all provinces and cities regarding the development of suitable energy crop resources in marginal land.

Their origin and development reflected factors such as social organization, the distribution of food-crop resources, and defense considerations.

It has been proposed that the benefits of local manipulations will depend on the landscape context, with greater benefits in simplified landscapes and smaller benefits in landscapes with an abundance of non-crop resources.

Findings indicate potential for simplified agricultural landscapes to be 'selectively' manipulated to enhance colonization of the crop by natural enemies, but not herbivores, by improving connectivity between crops and non-crop resources, through the presence of woody vegetation.

However, plant architecture is a major determinant of the crops' resource use efficiency.

"This paper comes out of a global effort to reopen borders and share crop genetic resources," Khoury says.

Viable soil fertility strategies have to be implemented to make use of the available manure and crop residue resources for improving soil fertility and crop productivity by minimizing their competitive demands for fuel and feed.

Therefore, epistasis association analysis with a full genetic model is feasible in crop germplasm resources.

A better understanding of this distribution can help assist in establishing representative collections of crop genetic resources, which form the basis of modern crop improvement [3] [4].

Successful in situ conservation of crop genetic resources depends on continuity of these evolutionary processes.