Sentence examples for crops experts from inspiring English sources

Antibiotics are widely used in shrimp farms to counter diseases that can wipe out crops, experts say.

While there's no evidence that the transgenic DNA will harm people or the genetic diversity of the crops, experts are surprised by the find and say it highlights the challenge of preventing the spread of transgenic DNA beyond the crops to which it's originally added.

Neither is an ideal energy crop, experts say.

But the improving prospects for British farming bring a huge responsibility to help feed those parts of the world where global warming will destroy agriculture, says Professor Ian Crute, one of the country's leading crop experts.

The best answer we have, based on surveys of crop experts, is that 95% of some of the major crops are in gene banks.

British GM crop experts say EU regulations add between 10 and 20 million pounds ($16 million to $33 million) to the cost of developing a GM trait in a crop - prohibitive for the public sector and for small and medium sized businesses.

For each crop, a group of crop experts including breeders, physiologists, agronomists and pathologists validated trait descriptions and other trait information.

For several years, Bioversity International, in collaboration with crop experts, has been developing a controlled vocabulary, called descriptors, for characterizing crop varieties in the field.

It's like a sea of pointed Frisbees," said Eliot Coleman, the author of "Four Season Harvest" (Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1999) who is a salad crop expert.

In the future, says Ms Oguya, as camera-phones become more widespread, she plans to expand the app to allow farmers to upload photos of their produce, or even send pictures of their crops to experts to get tips on how to be more productive.

Many have run out of money to buy seeds for the sowing of winter crops, and experts warn possible crop failures and mounting debt will severely hurt farmers just recovering from two years of drought.