Sentence examples for shift of crop from inspiring English sources

Salinity tolerance in field pea has become increasingly important in Australia due to a geographical shift of crop production towards environments characterised by shorter seasons, greater water limitation and marginal soils with higher transient soil salinity [ 26].

Some of the increase can be blamed on the shift of crops from food to fuel, prompted by wildly inefficient subsidies.

Although it is often difficult to distinguish between impacts of medium and long-term climate change on forestry and agriculture and influences related to the management of forests and crops, there is growing evidence that processes such as changes in phenology [3, 4], length of growing seasons [5, 6] and northwards shift of crops and forest species [7] relate to climate change [1].

Neither side seems willing to accept that these actions can do little but shift the location of crop production.

Adequate assessment of these shifts by means of crop modelling will promote understanding of the processes affecting the threats to crop production for specific regions and allow the development of adaptation strategies for climate change.

We studied the productivity and fruit quality of an extractively used population of tucumã palms in an area of 9 ha within a 25 ha shifting cultivation landscape composed of crop fields, homegardens, fallows and secondary forests in the proximity of Manaus during a 24-month period.

This generally involved a shift to crops that would yield more per unit of land and required more labour for their cultivation.

Rueful but not exactly critical, they are perhaps the first sign of a shift from the crop of handwringing war-on-terror autopsies that frittered out for lack of mainstream support in the late noughties; even the relatively gung-ho Oscar winner The Hurt Locker failed to set the box-office alight ($17m US domestic) in 2009.

This shift to modern fuels creates an excess of crop residues that are commonly burned in the field, leading to widespread ambient pollution in some seasons.

This lacuna puts us at a great disadvantage for understanding the responses of these bastions of crop diversity to climatic shifts.

Shifting the planting date can reduce the risk of crop failure and offset the predicted yield reduction caused by climate change.