Sentences with phrase «cash crops»

Further east, cash crops and livestock operations are popular in parts of Ontario and Nova Scotia is seeing a growth in the number of vineyards.

Cash crops on farmland in Canada's west.

Located in the US Corn Belt and Grain Belt, Indiana produces a number of cash crops such as corn and soybeans, along with agricultural staples like eggs and dairy.

However, some miners are coming up with innovative ideas to harness the excess heat generated from bitcoin mining to produce cash crops.

Recent intensification of permanent agriculture has had numerous negative environmental consequences: Erosion has accelerated and stream sediment loads have increased where repetitive cultivation is performed on steep slopes without appropriate conservation methods; permanent conversion of hill slopes and road building have increased the risk of landslides; irrigation of cash crops in the dry season has desiccated streams; and use of pesticides and fertilizers to sustain commercial agriculture has reduced water quality.

Profitable biofuel markets, by contributing to improved incentives to grow cash crops, could reduce the use of fire and the pressures on the agricultural frontier.

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

OK, so you want to clear the tropical forests and replace them with cash crops.

Analyzes LST from the thermal band of a Landsat image and produce a high - resolution surface temperature map (30 m) for the lowlands of the Jambi province in Sumatra (Indonesia), a region which suffered large land transformation towards oil palm and other cash crops over the past decades

Increased weed and pest pressure associated with longer growing seasons and warmer winters will be an increasingly important challenge; there are already examples of earlier arrival and increased populations of some insect pests such as corn earworm.64 Furthermore, many of the most aggressive weeds, such as kudzu, benefit more than crop plants from higher atmospheric carbon dioxide, and become more resistant to herbicide control.72 Many weeds respond better than most cash crops to increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, particularly «invasive» weeds with the so - called C3 photosynthetic pathway, and with rapid and expansive growth patterns, including large allocations of below - ground biomass, such as roots.73 Research also suggests that glyphosate (for example, Roundup), the most widely - used herbicide in the United States, loses its efficacy on weeds grown at the increased carbon dioxide levels likely to occur in the coming decades.74 To date, all weed / crop competition studies where the photosynthetic pathway is the same for both species favor weed growth over crop growth as carbon dioxide is increased.72

Going beyond the difficulties of determining land ownership and rights to resources, these include «extremely challenging governance conditions in many tropical forest countries, complex land - use pressures due to scarce agricultural land and unclear land tenure situations, very high profits from alternative land - uses such as destructive logging or conversion for cash crops,» says Ebeling.

Pimentel noted that although cash crops can not be grown as frequently over time on organic farms because of the dependence on cultural practices to supply nutrients and control pests and because labor costs average about 15 percent higher in organic farming systems, the higher prices that organic foods command in the marketplace still make the net economic return per acre either equal to or higher than that of conventionally produced crops.

This unique approach does not take land away from food production, but instead promotes the multiple use of farmlands — for growing trees and cash crops.

Funded by the USDA Organic Research and Extension Initiative, this project evaluates the production, environmental, and economic benefits of growing cash crops with forage crops for grazing, including small grains and hay crops for livestock feed.

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.

doesn't that make for more crop failures, more expensive food, a shift to higher value cash crops (which may have lower food value or feed fewer but wealthier people), and a shift of agricultural areas away from the equator, resulting in costly changes in farm viability and land use?

This has seen the recent introduction of fields of soybean, onions and papayas as cash crops.

Crop Garden - The crop garden contains indigo, tobacco, cotton and sugar cane in order to depict all of Magnolia Mound's cash crops throughout our history.

«Dogs should not be treated as production machines or cash crops in puppy mills,» said Scott Beckstead, The HSUS» Oregon senior state director.

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.

«Those who look at puppies as nothing but cash crops are in for a rude awakening.»

This program will provide borrowers with financing for the additional costs associated with feeding livestock because of the drought including but not limited to: 1) purchasing feed, 2) remote haying, 3) hauling hay, 4) hauling livestock to a feedlot, 5) feedlot fees, and 6) harvest of cash crops.

While speaking to people living in rural areas, she discovered that the government had induced farmers to switch from growing crops for themselves to producing cash crops, such as coffee and tea, for exporting.

We, together with students are cultivating horticulture and cash crops.

But a negative campaign against saturated fats in general, and coconut oil in particular, led to most food manufacturers abandoning coconut oil in recent years in favor of hydrogenated polyunsaturated oils that come from the main government - subsidized cash crops in the US, particularly corn and soy.

A lot of it comes down to what our government chooses to subsidize: cash crops like corn and soy, which are used for processed foods.

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

A farming community where people grow rice and cash crops such as vanilla, this tiny town at the outskirts of Marojejy National Park is one of the few remaining places on Earth where light pollution is not a problem.

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.

The program is in place in 26 of China's 31 mainland provinces and, while its central goal is to prevent erosion, most of the reestablished forest is now used for the production of timber, fiber, tree fruits and other cash crops.

In fall 2011, Burger and UC Davis hydrologist Jan Hopmans started a three - year experiment, comparing how different cover crops, which are seasonally rotated with cash crops such as tomatoes, can be used to improve soil quality and reduce fertilizer use.

Many economies are extremely vulnerable because they depend crucially on a very few cash crops.

Pigweed, ragweed and other monsters have begun to outsmart the advanced technologies that protect the biggest U.S. cash crops

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.

Sayles is experimenting with cover crops, including radishes, soybeans and chickpeas, in between or simultaneous with cash crops.

He decried the loss of innocent lives and the destruction of cash crops and farmlands by the herdsmen in several rural communities across the Edo South senatorial district.

This industrialisation, he indicated, would go hand - in - hand with improving the productivity of agriculture, spurred on by the production and marketing of additional cash crops such as cotton, coffee, oil palm, cashew and maize, which will boost export earnings for the country.

Falae's farm was attacked on Sunday by some suspected Fulani herdsmen who allegedly burnt down over five hectares of palm plantation and some cash crops.

«Our project is to make Ghana a regional production and manufacturing centre, by weaving together our numerous natural resources, such as our food produce, extensive cash crops, gold, bauxite, iron ore, oil and gas, with our talents and energy to turn our nation into an economic powerhouse in West Africa and beyond,» he explained.

Not only did the Canal stimulate growing of cash crops like grain, hops, cheese, potash; it also brought a surge of immigrants to settle western New York and beyond.

As such, he asked, «How can we provide financial tools, education and technical assistance to farmers during transition, market outputs for their cash crops that they are transitioning and research, so that they can be as efficient and high yielding as possible?»

«Most farmers grew a commercial crop — usually bananas — supplemented with other, smaller, cash crops, like tomatoes, cucumbers or zucchinis.

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.

My uncles family owns an organic farm where they grow organic spices, fruits and vegetables and other cash crops.

But a negative campaign against saturated fats in general, and coconut oil in particular, led to most food manufacturers abandoning coconut oil in recent years in favor of hydrogenated polyunsaturated oils that come from the main government - subsidized cash crops in the US, particularly corn and soy.

With an ideal geographic allocation close to the equator, high peaks and volcanic soils, the tea plant is thriving in Indonesia, but is not profitable enough compared to other cash crops.

Moreover, technological improvements in agriculture were applied to the cash crops raised by men for export, not to the food crops raised by women for their families, so that the problem of indigenous hunger was compounded.

So that we can have the cheap cash crops and conveniences that we demand, we are raping their lands and looting their futures — without ever having to follow the legislation that is enabling it, without ever having to pay the decent wages, pensions, or benefits to those people to get them.

In our eagerness to draw people into history thus defined, development policies have encouraged the shift from raising food for local consumption to growing cash crops for export.

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.