Their goal: crops that limit the use of pesticides and fertilizers while delivering more food per acre planted.
Scotts Miracle Gro (NYSE: SMG) of course, which makes lawn fertilizers, and crabgrass controls.
At first Kuan-Shu instructed farmers about green cultivation and the dangers of pesticides and chemical fertilizers.
This means no artificial fertilizers, chemical pesticides, herbicides, plant growth regulators or genetically modified organisms.
People down here have spent years digging in their fertilizers and manure, and it's just remote.
Cheap, plentiful natural gas benefits industries as diverse as glass, fertilizers, plastic and steelmakers.
No chemical fertilizers are used, just organic fertilizer sent straight from the gardens at Castel Gandolfo.
Currently the retail hypermarkets are expanding rapidly with cash generated in polymers and fertilizers.
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Aside from organic sulfur and copper mixes, they use no chemical sprays, no artificial fertilizers or pesticides.
Everyone has to eat and, to grow the foods we need, we have to use nitrogen fertilizers.
With sales way up, the company expanded into fertilizers, plastic sheets, food processing and solar water heaters.
And as China produces more of its own fertilizers, Potash risks losing sales to an important customer.
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He points out that it takes natural gas and oil to make and deliver fertilizers and herbicides.
Companies that have nothing to do with chemical weapons--producers of fertilizers, pharmaceuticals and plastics--will bear a heavy burden.
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Cocoa supplies are also threatened by disease outbreaks and limited access to fertilizers.
Helium (used to cool superconducting magnets in hospital MRI scanners) and phosphorus (in agricultural fertilizers) are also under threat.
Scientists developed new seed varieties and fertilizers that produced more food per acre.
If you're going to be an effective and profitable farmer, nitrogen fertilizers must be applied at every crop cycle.
He wanted us to plant corn everywhere and start production of chemical fertilizers.
Shipment volumes of housing and construction products, chemicals, metals and fertilizers all increased, while food and consumer shipments were flat.
Cotton crops require huge amounts of water, and the farms that grow them use lots of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
While it is also a major producer of nickel, copper and fertilizers, about 90% of its profits come from iron ore.
Many tributaries running through the forest had dried up due to wide-spread clear-cutting and they said fertilizers were polluting the water.
Advances in fields such as polymer research already provide new ways to encapsulate fertilizers and pesticides so they are released slowly.
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"There's enough income, I can manage to pay my helpers, we even eat there and buy fertilizers with that money, " she adds.
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Studies have shown that precision farming techniques can lower application of pesticides and fertilizers by 10% or more without affecting crop yields.
Meanwhile compatriot, Ioan Niculae, returns with a fortune buffetted by growth in agriculture and fertilizers, both strong sectors across the globe.
They squander land, damage plant and animal species through the heavy use of fertilizers and pesticides, and waste huge amounts of water.
That excludes things like the carbon footprint of fertilizers, harvesting and distribution.
Runoff of nitrates and nitrites from fields sprayed with chemical fertilizers get into drinking water and cause cancer. can lead to cancer.
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