Cooling the planet with crops

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By carefully selecting which varieties of food crops to cultivate, much of Europe and North America could be cooled by up to 1°C during the summer growing season, say researchers from the University of Bristol. This is equivalent to an annual global cooling of over 0.1°C, almost 20% of the total global temperature increase since the Industrial Revolution. The growing of crops already produces a cooling of the climate because they reflect more sunlight back into space, compared with natural vegetation. Different varieties of the same crop vary significantly in their solar reflectivity (called ‘albedo’), so selecting varieties that are more reflective will enhance this cooling effect. Since arable agriculture is a global industry, such cooling could be extensive. To read more please go on http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2009/6091.html...
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Recolte care racoresc planeta noastra

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Cercetatorii de la Universitatea din Bristol au observat ca lanurile de grane ar putea sa fie o veritabila arma impotriva incalzirii globale. In baza imaginilor provenind de la satelitii de monitorizare a pamantului, acestia au constatat ca unele recolte, mai ales cele cu frunze deschise la culoare, au capacitate mare de reflexie a energiei solare inapoi in spatiu , fenomenul fiind mai accentuat in America de Nord si Europa, pe timpul verii. Astfel, adaptarea agriculturii pe cele doua continente ar putea duce la scaderea temperaturilor globale cu peste 0,1 grade Celsius. Pentru mai multe detalii va rog sa accesati: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2009/6091.html....
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Prime Minister hopes Romania will become a strategic player of exporting grains and food

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Romanian Ministry of Agriculture will finalize within next month the strategy about agriculture, where irrigation plays a key role' declared Emil Boc (tr. Prime Minister) at Calarasi, Romania. 'The Agricultural Ministry will soon implement this project. The core issue is Romania to become from an importer player to an agri-food exporter' declared Boc. He's been asked also if the previous - government project about drought control will still be of interest to be tested in Calarasi county. The Prime Minister declared that 70% of all agri products and food consumed in Romania is imported knowing that this country can feed 80 million people....
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AGRI CAREER AND ABILITIES

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This article is written for those who really would like to follow a career in agriculture. Who is interested to build up his/her agricultural career in Romania or elsewhere in the world? In this industry we can find activities where people are involved physically and have to explore their visual or mechanical abilities. You are either focused on reaching real performances or you would like to use your experience and judgment to better understand the environment and how to interact with it. Usually people involved in farm activities are lonesome, ready to work in tough conditions and sometimes dangerous. So we discussed here about people who are physically-driven / motivated. Who do u recognize under this description? Either a farmer or a forestry man. People who are business-driven are running the business as if is theirs, even if it is so or not. The responsibility and rewards for this type of career include all the risks affiliated to the failure of not fulfilling...
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Editorial January – April 2009

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Through this new initiative I believe I am going to find good quality people willing to join me, people who want to express themselves through their believes and opinions on this blog. In general agriculture is not quite the field of activity the young people or less young are after. To be prepared to get in contact with the forces of nature or to get your hands dirty (not metaphorically, of course) from the morning to the evening is not necessarily what the people are looking for in their lives. To wait one year to harvest your crops, who has so much patience. For myself, nature is my soul. In all her ways, from land to waters, wind, sun, flora and fauna, all together means life and an ever lasting source of inspiration and wisdom. Nature is a force you do not have to get in conflict with. Nature sometimes is unpredictable. I remember I tried so hard to satisfy all forces...
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