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The economy of Houston is based primarily on the energy industry, particularly oil.However, health care, biomedical research, and aerospace also constitute large sectors. In 2021, the gross domestic product (GDP) of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan statistical area (MSA) was 537 U.S. dollars billion, the fourth-largest of any metro area in the United States. [1]
The Cereal Disease Laboratory is located on the campus of the University of Minnesota in Saint Paul. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] [ 26 ] It primarily hosts research into rusts and Fusaria of cereals. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] [ 26 ] The San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center in Parlier, California conducts research on specialty crops including grapes, citrus ...
Spreading disease among crop plants is incredibly difficult to control and was previously only managed by completely removing the affected crop. The field of agricultural biotechnology offers a solution through genetically engineering virus resistance. Developing GE disease-resistant crops now include cassava, maize, and sweet potato.
The Crop Science Society of America was founded in 1956 [1] as a daughter society of the American Society of Agronomy with its inaugural president being Gerald Mott [2] and in 1961 launched Crop Science, the society's flagship peer-reviewed journal. [3]
By 1850, South Carolina's cash crop was rice which was on 257 plantations producing 159,930,613 pounds and at its highest there were 150,000 acres of swamps under cultivation. [8] A Civil War era rice barn on a plantation along the Pee Dee River. At the census of 1870, after emancipation, the production of rice decreased to 73,635,021 pounds.
Crop and Pasture Science is an international peer-reviewed scientific journal published by CSIRO Publishing.It publishes outcomes of strategic research in crop and pasture sciences and the sustainability of farming systems.
Postcard depicting a rice farm near Houston, 1910. By 1903, Texas cultivated 234,000 acres of rice. This was second to only Louisiana in rice cultivation which produced 376,000 acres of this crop. At this point, the two states accounted for 99 percent of the rice grown in the United States.
This also leads to agricultural growth. People see that there is a greater opportunity to earn their living by farming and are attracted to agriculture either as owners of farms themselves or as labourers. [13] A liquid manure spreader. It is not only the people employed in agriculture who benefit from increases in agricultural productivity.