Sentences with phrase «cash crop»

Such breeding facilities treat puppies as cash crops instead of pets, employing horrendous standards of care for the dogs and producing sick animals prone to illness, injury, genetic and behavioral problems.

The remaining 6 acres is cash cropped with local farmer!

In addition to carbon earnings, farmers also benefit from cash crops from their trees, improved food and fuel security, improved soil quality, and reduced soil erosion.

As I said, the point is that a big cash crop was simply a fad.

Typically, but not always, cover crops are terminated before reaching seed to avoid competition with any subsequent cash crop.

Many parents I've talked to place their bets on a popular cash crop, hemp.

This year's cash crop ranges from flights of fancy to funny, but this is just the beginning.

The artist's work questions where the spirits will live when the ancient forests and communal lands are lost to private cash crops.

There are steep prices to pay when seafood becomes a mere cash crop, a commodity.

Much of the current expansion is attributed to the booming cash crop business.

They just keep circling... students: the new cash crop for corporations.

«But if I got really good at engineering pattern formation within living systems, change the fertilizer a little bit, make connections between the organic and the inorganic, there is a chance that I could create a new kind of cash crop in my front yard.»

They say that far too heavy an emphasis is placed on the cultivation of cash crops such as soya beans for export at the expense of crops to feed local people.

Maine could have a new cash crop to add to its famous lobsters — clean energy.

To guard against the economic catastrophe of a failed coffee crop, many growers now mix in other cash crops such as yucca and tomatoes, alongside their coffee plants or experiment with growing hybrid coffee plants that are better adapted to climate extremes or are better able to resist pests.

Nana Akufo - Addo said Brong - Ahafo was one of the regions endowed with most of the country's abundant natural resources, particularly major cash crops like cashew and cocoa.

Pierre de Schlippe, a Senior Research officer at the Yambio Experimental Station in the Congo, reported in 1956 that chiles had become the most important cash crop after cotton in the Zande district with, as he put it, «very little encouragement and no supervision whatsoever.»

Yang, Y., Suh, S., 2015: Changes in environmental impacts of major cash crops in the U.S. Environmental Research Letters, 10 (9), 094016.

Our undercover investigations expose transnational wildlife crime, with a focus on elephants and tigers and forest crimes such as illegal logging and deforestation for cash crops such as palm oil.

Thottathil's starting point in India's Organic Farming Revolution is a perceived «bifurcation of Kerala's organic farming movement» — between non-certified organic farmers growing food crops for local markets on one end, and certified organic farmers growing cash crops for export on the other.

In 2013, consumers spent $ 10 billion on Apple apps alone, making it a huge cash crop for businesses.

For example, a few kilometres south of Barrie, a 100 - acre cash crop farm, complete with a 3,400 - sq - ft Victorian home, is currently selling for $ 1.7 million, or $ 17,000 per acre.

This institutional framework allowed the Dutch to transform rice into cash crop and begin exportation.

For three years, they planted cover crops like hairy vetch - triticale and cereal rye, followed by cash crops like corn and soybeans.

Cash crop farmer Rick Willemse started collecting data on his fields back in the mid -»90s, strictly to satisfy his own curiosity.

He established himself as an innovative farmer, who switched from tobacco to wheat as his main cash crop in the 1760s.

Peanuts are the 12th most valuable cash crop grown in the United States with a farm value of over one billion U.S. dollars, according to The American Peanut Council.

For Ralph, it's an early foot through the door of what she predicts will be the state's next cash crop.

This bird - planting cultivation was still evident in 1956 when Pierre de Schlippe, a senior research officer at the Yambio Experimental Station in the Congo, reported that chiles had become the most important cash crop after cotton in the Zande district with, as he put it, «very little encouragement and no supervision whatsoever.

The Chiefs asserted that the commodity has the potential to compete with other traditional cash crop if given the needed push.

The Deputy Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, Mr Justice Samuel Adjei, said in spite of the fact that the region produced cashew and other cash crops on large scale, «it does not have a corresponding number of factories and industrial establishments to be fed with the raw materials».

He says the bank's backing for economic reforms in developing countries, which tends to favour cash crops over local subsistence, makes that a worrying prospect.

Related bacterial infections threaten other cash crops throughout the Americas.

Renewables can act as a drought - resistant cash crop for farmers and ranchers to rely on to make a living and keep their land in the family.

Coffee is the only cash crop in Rwanda.

That's about $ 17 billion of purchasing power today Resuming cultivation of hemp, America's original cash crop, is a multibillion - dollar opportunity.

«It's still the most lucrative cash crop you can grow per acre,» says Dennis Travale, the mayor of Norfolk County, in the heart of the Ontario tobacco belt.

With almost half the country having passed legislation that legalizes marijuana to one extent or another, the pot economy has bred a new wave of entrepreneurs looking to cash in on America's newest legal cash crop.

In the midland region of Travancore and in highlands to the east, they worked as farm hands raising paddy, tapicoa and cash crops while in the paddy fields of the west coast they were ploughers of the soil, sowers of seeds, transplanters of seedlings, removers of weeds, irrigators, harvesters, dryers of grain and loaders into the wooden storage space.

At the same time, the war on drugs was pushing coca cultivation out of Peru and Bolivia (which are to the south of Colombia), making it an even more attractive cash crop for Colombian farmers.

The development of the roller - crimper has provided an alternative means for terminating cover crops and planting organic cash crops into rolled cover crop mulch that serve as a primary weed suppression tool.

Th year 2000 had the 29th annual chile festival, and more than 40 booths sold arts and crafts, food, and of course, lots of fresh green and red chile at this annual celebration of the area's most famous cash crop.

Often the only alternative cash crop is drugs.

Crop rotations cycle through cash crops (vegetables) and cover crops (grasses or cereals).