Fertilizer
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We had slash and burn agriculture; people cannot afford the fertilizer, so they burn the trees and have the minerals available there; the fires become more frequent, and after a while you're stuck with an area of land where there is no fertility left.
You formulate a recipe based upon the factors you can control, whether it be the skills or the
fertilizer
or the plant choice.
If you can drop this recipe on the map on a sandy soil, on a clay soil, on a steep slope, on flat soil, you put those different recipes; if you combine them, out of that comes a business plan, comes a work plan, and you can optimize it for the amount of labor you have available or for the amount of
fertilizer
you have, and you can do it.
So we plant the trees, we plant these pineapples and beans and ginger in between, to reduce the competition for the trees, the crop
fertilizer.
This is key, because many reefs are overgrown with algae due to nutrient pollution from sewage and
fertilizer
that runs off of land.
And with the water savings come similar savings in the use of
fertilizer.
In ideal growing conditions— with the right temperature, water, fertilizer, pest control, and light— a cotton fiber can grow up to 3.6 centimeters long with only a 25 micrometer width.
There are other services, like how we make fertilizer, or how we do air transport, where the rooms for improvement are far, far less.
It has been an honor for me, particularly, to work in Rwanda where we also have a major economic development project in partnership with Sir Tom Hunter, the Scottish philanthropist, where last year we, using the same thing with AIDS drugs, cut the cost of
fertilizer
and the interest rates on microcredit loans by 30 percent and achieved three- to four-hundred percent increases in crop yields with the farmers.
The green revolution, all of this artificial nitrogen fertilizer, we use too much of it.
It does this through an elaborate and elegant system of checks and balances, stimulators and inhibitors of angiogenesis, such that, when we need a brief burst of blood vessels, the body can do this by releasing stimulators, proteins called angiogenic factors, that act as natural fertilizer, and stimulate new blood vessels to sprout.
Cancer cells mutate, and they gain the ability to release lots of those angiogenic factors, natural fertilizer, that tip the balance in favor of blood vessels invading the cancer.
And if we jam nutrients, sewage,
fertilizer
in the base of that food pyramid, it can back up all through it.
Shady writing, wooden performances, and sappy direction all point that this pulpy
fertilizer
has far mooore bark than bite.
No - Don't get offended by this by thinking you have seen something that might be in the same department of naturally produced human
fertilizer
that this movie is in.
Oh, and it would also serve nicely as a lawn
fertilizer.
It was ridiculously shallow, the dialog drab and uninteresting, the characters about as interesting as a 5 pound bag of
fertilizer.
In "Quackser Fortune" (how's that for a title?), Gene Wilder works in Dublin scooping up horse droppings from the carriages to sell for fertilizer; he eventually meets ever-kooky Margot Kidder, who is sort of a displaced hippie.
The premise is that the people who don't co-operate with the communal needs of the state, are "scum of the earth" or "crop
fertilizer"
and they are portrayed as being selfish and undesirable murderers in the film and thus have to be 'weeded out'.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, where three of the four countries on the verge of famine are located, crop yields have long lagged behind the rest of the world, owing to poor farm inputs, such as low-quality seeds and
fertilizer.
Inexpensive practices – such as planting crops in rows, weeding correctly, and applying
fertilizer
in micro-doses – are also proven methods to increase crop production dramatically.
Violations included a “vertical monopoly” in the Malawi sugar sector, price fixing in Kenya’s
fertilizer
industry, and a “buyer cartel” in the Zimbabwean cotton industry.
While there is no significant effort to cap spending on some of the largest fiscal programs, including the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (which guarantees 100 days of wages to rural households) or the
fertilizer
subsidy, measures to improve implementation and reduce leakage are being put in place.
On average, they apply less than 10 kilograms of
fertilizer
per hectare, compared to 140 kilograms in India.
The average chemical
fertilizer
use in sub-Saharan Africa is 12.5 kilograms per hectare of arable land, compared to the world average of 102 kg/hectare.
Water, fertilizer, and pesticides should be used more efficiently.
An aid cutoff to Ethiopia would nonetheless lead to a lot of death among impoverished people, who will lack medicines, improved seeds, and
fertilizer.
African farmers know that they need fertilizer; they just can’t afford it.
The UN Secretary General led a steering group last year that determined that African agriculture needs around $8 billion per year in donor financing – roughly four times the current total – with a heavy emphasis on improved seeds, fertilizer, irrigation systems, and extension training.
African countries search endlessly, and mostly fruitlessly, for the small amounts of funding needed for their purchases of
fertilizer
and improved seeds.
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