Sentences with phrase «most conventional farmers»

Most conventional farmers only plant one crop per field or plot.

Most conventional farmers employ a variety of these methods.

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This solution replaces the conventional practice of providing most of these resources to male smallholder farmers or large agricultural plantations.

So while conventional industrialized agriculture feeds the developed world, most of the world's farmers work small family farms.

Traditional methods used to limit the impact of MSD include insecticides to control leafhopper populations (which are not affordable to most small - scale farmers and can be environmentally damaging), and conventional selective breeding of maize for resistance traits that naturally exist in some varieties.

I think one of the most interesting things we learned came from a farmer who grew conventional, organic, and GMO seeds.

Conventional arguments that promote plant - based diets as the most beneficial for health, the environment, and feeding the world neglect to address the way in which those diets are compatible with the agricultural policies that benefit large agricultural corporations and undermine the interests of farmers.