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In the Green Revolution, the traditional practice of crop rotation gave way in some parts of the world to the practice of supplementing the chemical inputs to the soil through top dressing with fertilizers, e. g. adding ammonium nitrate or urea and restoring soil pH with lime in the search for increased yields, preparing soil for specialist crops, and seeking to reduce waste and inefficiency by simplifying planting and harvesting.
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Alliance ' 90 / The Greens () is a green political party in Germany, formed from the merger of the German Green Party ( founded in West Germany in 1980 ) and Alliance 90 ( founded during the Revolution of 1989 – 1990 in East Germany ) in 1993.
Haryana contributed heavily to the Green Revolution that made India self-sufficient in food production in the 1960s.
This time covers the effects of the Green Revolution.
These universities worked with high-yielding varieties of wheat and rice, initially developed in Mexico and the Philippines, that in the 1960s began the Green Revolution, an effort to diversify and increase crop production.
( 1930 ) The Wesleyan Movement in the Industrial Revolution, London: Longmans, Green.
Between the 1940s and 1970s the Green Revolution increased agriculture production around the world which led to further increases in farm size and a reduction in the number of farms.
The economies of much of the developing world continued to make steady progress in the early 1970s, because of the Green Revolution.
Medical science and the Green Revolution in agriculture enabled the world's population to grow from about 1. 6 billion to about 6. 0 billion.
Norman Borlaug, father of the Green Revolution, is often credited with saving over a billion people worldwide from starvation.
** American Revolution: Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold, leading the Green Mountain Boys of Vermont, capture Fort Ticonderoga.
Improved agricultural husbandry has more recently included threshing machines and reaping machines ( the ' combine harvester '), tractor-drawn cultivators and planters, and better varieties ( see Green Revolution and Norin 10 wheat ).
Genes for the ' dwarfing ' trait, first used by Japanese wheat breeders to produce short-stalked wheat, have had a huge effect on wheat yields world-wide, and were major factors in the success of the Green Revolution in Mexico and Asia.
The high-yielding varieties are a group of crops created intentionally during the Green Revolution to increase global food production.
As the UN Millennium Development project seeks to spread global economic development to Africa, the " Green Revolution " is cited as the model for economic development.
Increased understanding and use of fertilizers were important parts of the pre-industrial British Agricultural Revolution and the industrial Green Revolution of the 20th century.
The political parties with representation in the city are the Institutional Revolutionary Party or PRI, the National Action Party or PAN, the Party of the Democratic Revolution or PRD, the Labor Party or PT, the Green Party, Convergence, Socialdemocratic Party and Nueva Alianza.
Some believed that the Green Revolution was an answer to famine in the 1970s and 1980s.
The Green Revolution began in the 20th century with hybrid strains of high-yielding crops.
Between 1950 and 1984, as the Green Revolution transformed agriculture around the globe, world grain production increased by 250 %.
Between 1950 and 1984, as the Green Revolution influenced agriculture, world grain production increased by 250 %.
The effort to bring modern agricultural techniques found in the West, such as nitrogen fertilizers and pesticides, to Asia, called the Green Revolution, resulted in decreases in malnutrition similar to those seen earlier in Western nations.
Green and traditional
Green pearls have a small hint of green tea flavor, and are chewier than the traditional tapioca balls.
Other key traditional pop and jazz ballads include: " Body and Soul " by Johnny Green ; " Misty " by Erroll Garner ; " The Man I Love " by George Gershwin ; " My Funny Valentine " by Rodgers and Hart, " God Bless the Child " by Billie Holiday, " Ev ' ry Time We Say Goodbye " by Cole Porter, the instrumental ballad " Naima " by John Coltrane, " In a Sentimental Mood " by Duke Ellington and " Always " by Irving Berlin.
The traditional route of the parade is northward from Bowling Green to City Hall Park.
Left libertarian parties, such as Green, share with " traditional socialism a distrust of the market, of private investment, and of the achievement ethic, and a commitment to expansion of the welfare state.
In Europe, some ' Green-Left ' political parties combine traditional social-democratic values such as a desire for greater economic equality and workers rights with demands for environmental protection, such as the Nordic Green Left.
Whitstable, Kent, hosts a good example of more traditional May Day festivities, where the Jack in the Green festival was revived in 1976 and continues to lead an annual procession of morris dancers through the town on the May Bank Holiday.
A traditional Sweeps Festival is performed over the May bank holiday in Rochester, Kent, where the Jack in the Green is woken at dawn on 1 May by Morris dancers.
Also while in Kansas City, Finley changed the team's colors from their traditional red, white and blue to what he termed " Kelly Green, Wedding Gown White and Fort Knox Gold.
Roofs made of cut turf ( modern ones known as Green roofs, traditional ones as sod roofs ) have good insulating properties and are increasingly encouraged as a way of " greening " the Earth.
Spirituality can be sought not only through traditional organized religions, but also through movements such as the feminist theology and ecological spirituality ( see Green politics ).
* In Germany, Frankfurt Green sauce, different Klöße with vegetarian sauces ( e. g. Chanterelle ), combinations of Quark ( cheese ), spinach, potatoes and different herbs provide some traditional vegetarian summer dishes.
The traditional core districts of the East End are Bethnal Green, Whitechapel, Spitalfields, Stepney, Wapping, Limehouse, Poplar, Clerkenwell, Aldgate, Shoreditch, Millwall, Hackney, Hoxton, Bow and Mile End.
Many Green parties have rejected or constrained the traditional role of leaders as " party boss ", in favor of having figurehead leaders or spokespeople.
The first Green Party to achieve national prominence was the German Green Party, famous for their opposition to nuclear power, as well as an expression of anti-centralist and pacifist values traditional to greens.
In the past, a cliffhanger involving a death of a major character or disaster was marked by the traditional closing theme being replaced by the final dramatic section of Barwick Green involving trombones, cymbals and the closing bars of the signature tune.
During the band's mid-period, he wrote many cheerfully eccentric — and often ironic — celebrations of traditional English culture and living: " Village Green " ( 1966 ), " Afternoon Tea " and " Autumn Almanac " ( both 1967 ), " The Last of the Steam-Powered Trains " ( 1968 ), " Victoria " ( 1969 ), " Have a Cuppa Tea " ( 1971 ) and " Cricket " ( 1973 ).
Perhaps most significantly, the band's acclaimed 1968 concept album The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society gave an affectionate embrace to " Merry England " nostalgia and advocated for the preservation of traditional English country village and hamlet life.
The crossroads at the centre of Camberwell is the site of Camberwell Green, a very small area of common land which was once a traditional village green on which was held an annual fair of ancient origin which rivalled that of Greenwich.
The Eagle has been joined by, among others, The Peasant, The Coach and Horses, and The Gunmakers and The Green, which as part of a nationwide evolution of the traditional public house have since converted to gastropubs.
The 2004 Sessions album, which had six previously unreleased Norman songs ( including covers of an old hymn, a traditional folk song, and songs by Bob Dylan, and Emmylou Harris ) that were backed by Mark Lemhouse and Charles Norman's Softcore, as well as rare songs by Jesus Music veterans Dave Mattson, Randy Stonehill, Tom Howard, Keith Green, Steve ' N ' Stonebrooke, and Daniel Amos, was sent to those who contributed $ 100 or more to his medical fund.
Few traditional European Perry pears are available, it is believed that Moorcroft, Gin, Green Horse & Yellow Huffcap varieties are in Australia.
Green is used for its traditional association with Islam, and the adaptation of the red envelope is based on the Muslim custom of sadaqah, or voluntary charity.
During his tenure, the Philharmonic instituted a number of then-revolutionary ideas, including the creation of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Chamber Music Society and the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group and its " Green Umbrella " concerts ; both of these adjunct groups were composed of the orchestra's musicians but offered performance series which were separate and distinct from traditional Philharmonic concerts.
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