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Equity Watch - Global Environmental Government Unit - Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
In northwest India, though higher yields are projected for rice and wheat if carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere increase, a ... malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever and several types of encephalitis to hitherto cooler climates and higher altitudes. Warmer climes also speeds up the life cycle of mosquitoes and make adult mosquitoes ...
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Another Victory Against The GE Goliath
GM corporations’ false claims of reduced pesticide use and higher yields, had given permission to Monsanto=Mahyco to commercialise Bt cotton in the southern states on ... -target pests, forcing participating farmers to spray more often. The yield, once again, was not higher than given by non-Bt varieties. In addition, the Standing Committee ruled, “the risk ...
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Aleurites montana
Energy Crops. unpublished. Uses Folk Medicine Chemistry Description Germplasm Distribution Ecology Cultivation Harvesting Yields and Economics Energy Biotic Factors References Uses Kernels yield a valuable drying oil, ... . Fruits are gathered by hand into baskets or sacks. Yields and Economics A. montana is reported to give much higher yields of fruits than A. fordii. The percentage of kernels in ...
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Millions Against Monsanto Campaign - Organic Consumers Association
(Read more...) Cotton Farmers Going Bankrupt from Monsanto's GE Cotton In India the financial ... that buying the more expensive GE cotton seeds would result in higher yields and better cotton, the reverse is actually true. Crop yields for GE cotton were 5 TIMES LESS than traditional Indian ...
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Traits introduced into crops by genetic engineering (GE).
Biotech industry that these crops could help stop hunger in the Third World through higher yields. They also disprove claims that the plants, engineered to include their own pesticide, would need ... likely to be useful only temporarily. Recent scientific reports indicate that they will not provide higher yields. Nor have they reduced the use of herbicides. The use of herbicides is not ecologically ...
psrast.org

Climate VISION: Private Sector Initiatives: Forest Products: News & Events
NCSU will contribute a 44 percent cost share to this research ...
climatevision.gov

Cameroon
Only locally-available inputs are used Higher yields are obtained relative to those obtained by farmers who do not use this technique ... systems, productivity has been greatly enhanced. Already, fields adopting improved NPM methods are generating yields two to three times greater than adjacent fields. Although the lighthouses are still in ...
www.cnr.berkeley.edu

Agriculture: Zambia
Central Province, the development of an improved bean variety (Carioca) has produced significantly higher yields than the farmers' own local variety. Also, the implementation of no till technology in ... income. In the Central Province, for example, the improved bean variety generated over 61 percent higher income than the previously used local bean variety (Bezuneh et al. 153). Although the ...
colby.edu

Preventing Late Blight in Potaotes
Late Blight and Potato Yields While late blight reduces potato yields (less green leaf area) its impact is not as big as generally thought ... the conclusion that yields were higher on blight years! The explanation is that years with more late blight were also years with more rainfall which produced higher yields! In other words, potato yields are more ...
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Major Crop Yields
Of these five major crops, soybean yields increased the least, but even ... farmland is thought to play an important role in improving yields, but it may also have negative effects, such as increased ...
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