Pressure on water resources due to increased crop intensity brings about increased water resource competition in areas where water resources are scarce.

China faces its own environmental dangers, for example, water stress.

Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT) is a software system that integrates crop growth models with crop, weather and soil data and estimates potential changes in crop yields and water use.

Water In some areas sufficient rainfall is available for crop growth, but many other areas require irrigation.

Land, water, energy, and biodiversity all seem to be under greater stress than ever, and population growth appears to be a major source of that stress.

These are places where water is so scarce year after year that crop production is marginal at best.

(e) In the Near East, the development of hybrid rice and water efficient rice integrated crop management systems.

Water stress is becoming a major obstacle to economic development in many parts of the world.

Most of the adaptation options identified for agriculture relate to crop management, land management, and soil and water conservation.

Water supplies are increasingly under stress in large parts of the world, especially in the world s arid regions.

A new powerful ministry should be charged with coordinating the responses to climate change, water stress, and other ecosystem crises.

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Climate change would also lead to increased water stress, which by 2020 could affect 75 250 million people in Africa alone.

Iran estimates the alleged reduction in crop quality by comparing crop prices in the Southern Provinces in 1991 with national crop prices.

These include crop rotation, increased crop diversification, and introducing integrated pest management systems.

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If water can be managed through irrigation, this could be combined with multi cropping (multiple harvests per year) to produce a crop during the dry season.

Early next year, Aqueduct will offer future projections of water stress based on the latest scientific analysis, including predicted effects of climate change.

Declining rainfall contributed directly or indirectly to crop failures, the encroachment of the desert into pasturelands, the decline of water and grassland for livestock, and massive deforestation.

Leaving crop residues on the soil changes the surface characteristics. It increases rainfall efficiency, as water gets caught by and then percolates through the residues and soil.

Communities consistently cite reliable and accessible water sources for household use as a development priority and increasingly stress the importance of sanitation as well.

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The effects are unpredictable but likely to be huge, in terms of crop production, diseases, costs and availability of irrigation and drinking water, coastal erosion, and so forth

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Dripping water What is called the Chinese water torture was a torture described by Hippolytus de Marsiliis in the 16th century that was supposed to drive its victim insane with the stress of water dripping on a part of the forehead for a very long time.

Several reports stress the need for better water management for the rehabilitation of developed land, combined with the management of pastoral and agricultural forest pastoral lands.

I saw a company that had taken seawater and sand, and they were growing a kind of crop that will grow on pure salt water without having to treat it.

The old tool for managing farmers risks is crop insurance, which responds directly to the failure of a crop.

This is why private crop insurers are in short supply, and why crop insurance often requires expensive government subsidies.

There is a difference between the engineering stress and the true stress.

Farm management techniques in the context of tillage, crop management, water management and chemical inputs are already used by farmers as the means to optimize productivity while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Molecular biology approaches have been used to improve, inter alia, resistance to stress such as salinity and drought, insect resistance, fungal resistance, and nutrition value of crop products, as well as techniques for genetic transformation and protein expression as used in agroindustry.

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The winds destroyed much of the corn crop, about half of the peach crop, and about 1.5 million bushels of apples.

The tomato crop is of good quality.

The oilseed crop comprises three essential parts.

For example, the immune system is enhanced by acute stress but suppressed by chronic stress.

The farmer may neglect the crop or refuse to invest in saving a failing crop if he knows that a payout is forthcoming.

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Crop diversity can also deliver important ecosystem benefits.