Increasing Crop Yields
- Created by: HLeiper
- Created on: 14-04-14 15:19
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- Increasing Crop Yield
- Glasshouses
- Keeps pest and diseases out
- Artificial light - more photosynthesis
- Trap the suns heat to keep the plants warm - heater for the winter - increases rate of photosynthesis
- Increase CO2 levels with a paraffin heater - increases rate of photosynthesis
- Fertilisers
- Sometimes essential nutrients are missing from the soil due to the previous crop
- Fertilisers replace these elements and increase crop yield
- Pest Control
- Pesticides
- Chemicals help but can enter food chain and harm other wildlife
- Biological Control
- Using other organisms to reduce the numbers of pests by encouraging other organisms or adding new ones - predators, parasites or disease-causing
- Longer lasting and less harmful to wildlife
- Pesticides
- Glasshouses
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