Food For All In The 21st Century By Gordon Conway Gordon Conway is president of the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City. His expertise is in the field of agricultural ecology. This article is drawn from his most recent book. The Doubly Green Revolution: Food for All in the 21st Century (Ithaca. N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 1998). Conway is a former contributing editor of Environment. He can be contacted at the Rockefeller Foundation‚ 420 Fifth Avenue‚ New York‚ NY 10018. For most of the
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conditions‚ a number of abiotic stresses affect the crop plants. Abiotic factors generally disturb various cellular functions along with the complex metabolic pathways (Kassem et al.‚ 2004; Lee et al.‚ 2004; Popelka et al.‚ 2004). Drought is one of the common environmental stresses affecting plant growth and productivity (Boyer‚ 1982). It has been estimated that 10% of the arable land can be classified under non-stress category‚ which implies that crops grown under 90% of the arable land experience different
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Maiz The word maize derives from the Spanish form of the indigenous Taíno word for the plant‚ maiz. It is known by other names around the world. Corn outside North America‚ Australia‚ and New Zealand means any cereal crop‚ its meaning understood to vary geographically to refer to the local staple.In the United StatesCanada Australia‚ and New Zealand‚[citation needed] corn primarily means maize; this usage started as a shortening of "Indian corn". "Indian corn" primarily means maize (the staple
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create additional employment for 100 million persons and raise the incomes of millions of under-employed persons. This report presents a program to achieve these goals utilizing the country’s competitive advantage in labour-intensive agricultural crops and allied industries. Misfortunes can happen to some very good products. One of the major reasons for such mishappenings‚ is that industries and organizations fail to realize the importance of a well-planned process of new or existing product development
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the Kitchen God reports on their family to the Jade Emperor. No matter where they are‚ they would go home before Tet to celebrate with their family. In that day‚ most important foods that indispensable are Banh Chung (a square cake made from sticky rice‚ pork‚ lard and green bean paste)‚ Mut ( a tray of candied fruits )‚ Thit Kho ( Pork meat & eggs braised ) and Cu Kieu ( pickled scallion heads). In Vietnamese language‚ to celebrate Tet is to an Tet‚ that means ‘eat
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Module 6 Planning good crop-management practices To apply good crop-management practices‚ it is necessary Introduce the materials (e.g. cotton used for constructing the calendar. Picture the rice-plant development when the rice plant starts developing tillers and for how long. When transplanting is late‚ a good part of the tillering potential can be lost. Plant development also determines the ‘right’ time for weeding and fertilizer plant growth stages and the appropriate timing of - Start with
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modified (GM) rice to grow the proteins lactoferrin and lysozyme‚ both found in human breast milk‚ which can be used for the treatment of diarrhea in children‚ tourists and the military. (Lawrence and Weber‚ 2010‚ p. 494) However‚ the pioneer biotechnology invention has to go through regulatory processes and stakeholder’s scrutiny‚ before it can enter the market. There are ethical concerns over the plant-based medicines and opposition coming from consumer advocates‚ environmentalists‚ rice farmers and
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------------------------------------------------- GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS PROJECT MACRO ECONOMICS II BBE IV SEMESTER MADE BY- AAKANSHA GUPTA CHESHTA ARORA PRACHI SINGH WHAT ARE GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS? Genetically modified (GM) foods are foods derived from organisms whose genetic material (DNA) has been modified in a way that does not occur naturally‚ e.g. through the introduction of a gene from a different organism. Currently available GM foods stem mostly from plants‚ but in
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for many families. Around 45% of Indonesian workers are farmers. Rice is Indonesians primary staple crop. Indonesia today is the third largest rice producer totaling 64‚398‚900 tons of rice in all. Most of the rice produced in Indonesia is located in the island of Java. Before the fall of the New Order‚ they were most known for their contribution to Indonesians agriculture industry. The New Order introduced the Green Revolution rice technology to Indonesia. The Green Revolution was the foundation
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Contents Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 2 Hybrid Seed Production of Rice ......................................................................................................... 3 Hybrid seed production of Maize ..................................................................................................... 13 Hybrid seed production of Tomato ...............................
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