Instead they proposed a program that would improve crop insurance.
And vastly increase agriculture research and outreach programs to improve crop production.
Spending fell on the laborious plant-breeding programs needed to improve crop productivity.
But then wealthier nations joined forces with the poor countries to improve crop yields.
Nor is it certain that biotechnology will improve crop output the way classical breeding has.
The initiative continued with agricultural reforms to improve crop yields and increase available farmland.
Back then, the government of Andhra Pradesh asked Icrisat to explore low cost water conservation solutions to improve crop yields.
Field experiments began in the 1920's with agronomists, who wanted to improve crop yields -- hence the method's name.
During the 1840s, European farmers and plantation owners in the United States, growing their monocultures of tobacco and cotton, were trying to improve crop yields.
Its techniques were initially used to calculate the intricacies of soil, weather, seed varieties and other factors to improve crop yields.
This involves simple and inexpensive biological approaches to rehabilitate degraded farm land and improve crop yields from the current 10-15% of their biological potential.
