He says surpluses of food in the richer countries weakened the impulse to improve yields.
Growers in the area have been quick to adopt technology that will help them lower costs and improve yields.
That is, it was a bet that the creditworthiness of the portfolio would improve and yields would go down.
Innovative technologies will be needed to improve crop yields and drought tolerance and deliver more efficient ways of using fertilizer and water.
Timberland and Smallholder Farmers Alliance are helping local farmers learn how to improve crop yields, develop eight community tree nurseries and support agricultural training centers in the region.
Then farmers can correlate that information with the weather, their fertilizing patterns, seed varieties and they can come up with some predictive analytics on how to improve crop yields.
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Amgen and Genentech are also using Sangamo's zinc finger proteins to improve their manufacturing yields.
However, demand for new equipment logic production will soften as yields improve, leading to declining shipment volumes for the rest of the year.
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However, demand for new equipment for logic production will soften as yields improve, leading to declining shipment volumes as the industry heads into 2013.
These products are also designed to optimize production yields, improve throughput, and reduce production costs.
Syria will reach the limit of food self-sufficiency in 10-35 years, depending on the effectiveness of its measures to improve irrigation efficiency and agricultural yields, and to control population growth.
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Best estimates of future global agricultural water consumption (including both rainfed and irrigated agriculture), are of an increase of about 19% by 2050, but this could be much higher if crop yields and the efficiency of agricultural production do not improve dramatically.
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