Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wide array of heavy industrial products, with increases ranging from 35% on metals to 75% on coal. Finally the Agriculture Ministry announced a bumper grain harvest for 1966 of some 160 million tons, the largest in Soviet history and up 40 million tons over last year's yield...
...agricultural scientist, the world's exploding population combines with its dwindling food supply to pose a twofold problem: how to increase the crop yield on existing farmland, and how to make use of acreage previously considered uncultivable. In the Philip pines, Rockefeller Foundation scientists have successfully tackled the first part of the problem by developing a short, stiff rice plant that may increase the average yield of each crop as much as 800%. Planted in test plots alongside the standard brand, the new rice rises in lush plants that make its old-fashioned cousin look like a victim...
Agricultural Engineer Clarence Hansen and Agronomist A. Earl Erickson began working on the idea seven years ago when they noticed that certain areas of Michigan produced a high yield of crops from loose, sandy soil. The soil was productive, they realized, because an underlying layer of clay was trap ping rain water instead of allowing it to drain away, thus keeping the surface soil moist. "We decided to mimic these soils," says Erickson...
Also for Paddyfields. Trial plantings of cabbage yielded 505 crates per acre of asphalt-layered soil, compared with 260 crates for untreated acres. Potato yields rose 50% and cucumbers as much as 100%. The economics were even more impressive. With cabbage selling at $2 per crate, the increased yield would bring a farmer added revenue of $490 per acre, allowing him to pay off the cost of the asphalt layer-about $225 per acre-with his first harvest. Furthermore, Hansen and Erickson estimate, the underground asphalt will not deteriorate for at least 15 years...
...apply to the problems of crime resources of money, understanding and ability commensurate with the scope of the need. But it is my strong belief that if the criminal system can be brought out of the dark, the unfairness and futility which marks its operation today will begin to yield to the process of change...