A major challenge in rice (Oryza sativa L.) production is to enhance water use efficiency (WUE) and maintain or even increase grain yield. WUE, if defined as the biomass accumulation over water consumed, may be fairly constant for a given species in given climate. WUE can be enhanced by less irrigation. However, such enhancement is largely a trade-off against lower biomass production. If WUE is...

Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR) has become the sixth-largest grain-producing province of China, contributing 5.6% total national grain output in 2021. Grain production increased by around 821% from 1980 to 2019. The contributions structure adjustment, sown area, and yield increase was analyzed for IMAR. For yield, Cobb–Douglas function estimated, analyze contribution agricultural inputs...

introduction due to its multifunctional nature agriculture play important roles in ecological processes such as carbon sequestration, flood control, groundwater recharge, nutrient cycling, and purifying water, soil and air in addition to providing food, feed and fiber. these cover almost all ecological services provided by natural ecosystems, including provisioning services, regulating services...

Agricultural productivity has increased in Argentina, with cereals yield going from 1.4 to 4.8 tonnes grain ha-1 during the period 1961-2014 [6]. However, in the Province of Buenos Aires, cereals production has changed its composition during the period 2006 2016, with wheat production decreasing from approx.9 mill. to 5 mill. of tonnes and corn production going from 6.1 to 10. 1 mill. tonnes [7...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE The risk of cereal exposure to microbial contamination is high and possible at any time, starting from the period of plant vegetation, through harvest, up to the processing, storage and transport of the final product. Contents of mycotoxins in grain are inseparably connected with the presence of fungal biomass, the presence of which may indicate the occurrence of a fu...

Cereal Chem. 65(4):271-277 Sorghum grains (12 samples from seven different lines or hybrids) with phenylalanine, and glutamine plus glutamic acid, remained constant for total nitrogen, N, content ranging from 1.5 to 3 g/ 100 g grain dry matter serine, tyrosine, tryptophan, and asparagine plus aspartic acid, and were accurately analyzed for their amino acid composition from six decreased for the...

Introduction The first years of reforms in the former Soviet Union resulted in a sharp decline in agricultural production. Between 1989 and 1992, Ukrainian gross agricultural product dropped some 20%, and the output of grain, which is produced mostly in the collective sector, went down some 25% (World Bank). Several reasons for the fall have been advanced. In addition to weather variation acros...