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Expert says algae cultivation will be needed as rising heat shrinks farmland
2015-10-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Algae may be tiny, but new research suggests the single-celled organisms could play an outsized role in slowing the rate of global warming over the rest of the 21st century. In fact, it is their small size, or rather their small land requirement, that could make them an important tool to help mitigate climate change, according to Brian Walsh, a research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). Unlike most crops that have very specific growing conditions, algae...
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Researchers identify plant cultivation in a 23,000-year-old site in the Galilee
2015-07-22 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] The Middle East is called the “Cradle of Civilization” because it is where our hunter-gatherer ancestors first established sedentary farming communities. Recently, the traditional dating of humans' first agricultural attempt was shaken up by the discovery of the earliest-known example of plant cultivation in the Levant, 11,000 years earlier than previously accepted. The team of archaeologists, botanists, and ecologists from Bar-Ilan University, Haifa University,…
Sugarcane cultivation should be banned in Marathwada: Madhav Chitale
2015-06-15 08:02:01| Sugar Industry News
Water management expert Madhav Chitale has said the state government should enforce a ban on sugar cultivation in districts that receive less than 700 mm rainfall, to effectively tackle the problems of financial crisis in the sugar industry.
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B-Scada Provides IoT Solution to Optimize Algae Cultivation in Colorado
2015-04-15 12:31:13| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
CRYSTAL RIVER, FL: B-Scada, Inc. (OTCQB: SCDA) has announced today the release of a new case study detailing the work done by Algae Lab Systems using B-Scada's software technology to help monitor and control photobioreactors for commercial algae cultivation and aquaculture. Algae is cultivated for numerous purposes...
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U.S. hopes for GMO crop cultivation in China still alive, barely
2014-11-11 17:13:19| Chemicals - Topix.net
DuPont Pioneer , one of the world's largest seed companies, is refusing to give up on efforts to cultivate genetically modified crops in Chinese fields in the face of regulatory hurdles, even as rivals pull back. The Iowa -based agricultural seed and chemical unit of DuPont this autumn harvested its first test crops of GMO corn in China in six years after lengthy efforts to win government approval for the new field trials.