Then we'd need to plant crops on 1.7 billion acres to eliminate gasoline by 2050.
The U.S. would need to plant crops on 1.7 billion acres to eliminate gasoline by 2050.
Farmers in many flood plains plant crops that grow underwater, such as deep water aman rice or jute.
Producing fuel from plant crops is supposed to be greener than drilling for oil, and biofuels generally burn cleaner, too.
They help reclaim land poisoned with mines so farmers can plant crops.
Settlers would stack brick upon brick of sod about an acre's worth until they had a home, then plant crops in the rich undersoil.
They assemble in groups of three to five to plant crops, ship goods and raise edifices, compressing into a cheerful hour or two the wheeling and dealing that consumed the careers of 16th-century colonists in the Caribbean.
People plant their crops not knowing if the weather and the war will allow them to harvest.
So Mozambique encouraged its peasant farmers to plant hardier crops, such as cassava, millet and sweet potatoes, instead.
These conditions are forcing the farmers to plant alternative crops and to search for other sources of irrigation.
However, only farmers who both plant row crops and graze cattle can afford to do this, said Perry.
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You plant your crops, you wait for them to grow, you feed your animals, the wheat sways in the wind.
But this is hard to pull off in weak states teeming with peasants in search of somewhere to plant their crops.
The European Commission says clearing land in order to plant biofuel crops can often cancel out the environmental benefits of biofuel.
Farming was booming as farmers could know when to plant their crops.
While you may plant different crops for different results, you will always take the time to cultivate the crops to ensure a successful harvest.
It took another two years to test the transgenic tubers in greenhouses and yet another two years to obtain the necessary permits from Kenya to plant the crops for field testing.
Clinton also called on Congress to take additional steps to help farmers, including expanded eligibility for loans and more flexibility in subsidy programs so farmers can plant other crops when their primary crops fail.
Farmers can also add carbon-rich compost to the soil, and plant "cover crops" such as rye or vetch during parts of the year when land otherwise would lie idle.
"Washington should not be in the business of dictating to farmers what crops to plant, " he said.
And they would have to decide not just which crops to plant but whether to use them for food, carbon capture or things like bio-industrial raw materials.
Urban communities could be given powers that would allow them to take over unused land and grow crops, flowers or plant trees.
The latter activities include but are not limited to coca plant harvesting, protection of their crops, processing of coca leaves to manufacture cocaine and drug trade protection.
Professor Asis Datta, director of the National Centre for Plant Genome Research, says more crops with enhanced nutrition are needed - and he believes industry will not provide them.
This process is exacerbated when insects attack food crops, opening wounds in the plant that provide an opportunity for pathogen invasion.
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Genetically modified crops have great potential to improve plant and human health.
Masika has become a mother figure to the women and their children -- the results of rape -- and as they plant, tend, harvest and finally sell their crops they begin to heal together.
Parisi's common-law wife, Susanna Massimi, once broke out in hives when she touched its leaves. (She, for her part, is not allowed to wear perfume or put cream on her hands when entering the basement sanctorum.) Dark, resinous and furry like sage, the Pelo de Oro plant is prone to disease and easily infects other crops.
The BCAP (Biomass Crop Assistance Program), part of the 2008 farm bill, is designed to encourage farmers to plant biomass by cost-sharing the establishment of the crops.
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