Sentences with phrase «commercial agriculture»

It is quite rare today, not used in commercial agriculture, but mostly grown by small - scale family farmers.

However, there are some ways in which addressing illegal deforestation from commercial agriculture might actually be easier than dealing with illicit timber markets.

Of course the world needs commercial agriculture, unless we all want to live on and work our own farms.

We've been insuring commercial agriculture for over 100 years.

Included in the $ 22 billion number is $ 1 billion in spending for the Thruway system, including a toll freeze until 2020, a tax credit for frequent Thruway travelers and elimination of tolls for commercial agriculture vehicles.

Previous analyses documenting the yield deficiency in organic production have relied mostly on data generated under experimental conditions, but these studies do not necessarily reflect the full range of innovation or practical limitations that are part of commercial agriculture.

In fact, a report released by Forest Trends this year found that almost three - quarters of deforestation between 2000 and 2012 was caused by commercial agriculture, a significant shift from the timber industry that drove the majority of deforestation in the 20th century.

Honey: If your product contains honey, we require documentation showing that the 4 - mile radius surrounding the beehives is free from all high - risk commercial agriculture and that any supplemental feed is compliant with our standard.

University of Missouri Commercial Agriculture Extension Program, in partnership with the Missouri Climate Office, provides precise weather information and advisories to help farmers with managing their business.

This tool from the University of Missouri Commercial Agriculture Extension Program provides state and district level crop progress data from 1977 - 2010 along with average frost / freeze information.

So maybe the Wildrose and Derek Fildebrandt doesn't really care as much about the «family farm» as they do for the larger commercial agriculture operation that employs workers but still wants to be labelled a «family farm».

Biologists knew that wild pollinators matter to wild plants as well as to certain crops such as blueberries, but not to commercial agriculture as a whole.

Commercial agriculture industry veteran Jeff Glass brings experience to new role focused on growing crop nutrition company's distribution in the Southeast.

The Ghana Commercial Agriculture Project (GCAP) has started yielding results as beneficiaries have begun harvesting about 1.733 metric tonnes of paddy rice valued at GH cents 2.2 million from the Nasia - Nabogo Inland Valley (NNIV).

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that he will propose freezing Thruway tolls for all drivers until 2020, and eliminate them altogether for commercial agriculture traffic.

Then, commercial agriculture exploded after World War II, and tomato crops were bred for higher yields, disease resistance, redder color, and firmness, explains Harry Klee, a horticultural scientist at the University of Florida in Gainesville and one of the study's authors.

In the late 20th century in particular, large areas fell victim to intensive logging and commercial agriculture such as coffee and tea plantations.

The two biggest reasons are the onset of large scale commercial agriculture which uses soil depleting methods and agricultural chemicals, mostly fertilizers and pesticides.

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Witness what happened when Ben and Jerry's recently went non-GMO, expressly as a statement of values against commercial agriculture (as represented by everyone's favorite target, Monsanto), and lots of their customers complained that they just want their Heath Bar Crunch back.

At present the country has little commercial agriculture or logging because of the state of its infrastructure, ruined by war and misrule.

With more than 100 million small landholder farmers in East Africa, agricultural commercial agriculture cooperatives can act as a realistic solution to the region's food insecurity.

It is primarily used in commercial agriculture, but can also be used to control weeds in residential lawns and on golf courses.

While in the 20th century tropical forests often went to meet demand for timber, about three - quarters (71 %) of all tropical deforestation between 2000 and 2012 was caused by commercial agriculture.

The intended use shifted from commercial agriculture and other lightweight work uses, to fit the U.S. and Canadian compact to midsize truck use which is more often consumer centered.

surrounding the beehives is free from all high - risk commercial agriculture and that any supplemental feed is compliant with our standard.

The official statement on drivers of deforestation agreed to by parties to the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2013 does not specifically address illegal conversion for commercial agriculture.

Unlike Louverture, they have portrayed subsistence farming as a legitimate — even a more ecologically benign — alternative to commercial agriculture, rather than the economic calamity it was.

Obaseki explained that most of the jobs would be created through agriculture and skills acquisition, adding that agriculture would be moved from subsistence to commercial agriculture.

That's because many problems, such as policies that encourage deforestation for commercial agriculture, are beyond local communities» control.

But it's about more than just a rainbow of fruits and vegetables... Genetic diversity also means protection from diseases, reliability for our food supply and insurance against the dangers of a commercial agriculture dominated by monoculture.

Test plantings in greenhouses have grown successfully, and Gallie has several companies interested in developing the corn for commercial agriculture.

Commercial agriculture is responsible for more than 70 per cent of tropical deforestation, half of which is illegal, says forests expert Sam Lawson, an independent researcher who has analysed local and government data from around the world (bit.ly / ForestTrends).

Collections of these provide a wealth of historical information for scholars and scientists studying everything from the history of botany, horticulture, and commercial agriculture to landscape design, plant exploration, graphic arts and publishing.

«In most regions, unsustainable smallholder or commercial agriculture is a primary driver of deforestation that projects in our survey are trying to address,» says report co-author and Ecosystem Marketplace Associate Director Molly Peters - Stanley.

All key sectors — energy generation, road transport, buildings, industry, forestry and land use, and commercial agriculture — have to begin major efforts to cut emissions by, latest, 2020.

Nearly half (49 %) of all tropical deforestation in this period was the result of illegal land conversion for commercial agriculture, and nearly one quarter (24 %) was the direct result of illegal land conversion for commercial agricultural products bound for export markets.

Commercial agriculture: keep emissions at or below current levels, establish and disseminate regional best practice, ramp up research

The REDD Readiness Preparation Proposals that countries submit to the UN-REDD Programme and the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility in hopes of securing upfrontreadiness» funding rarely mention governance issues or the extent to which illegal deforestation for commercial agriculture has been the biggest recent driver of deforestation, according to Lawson, and even fewer propose methods for addressing illegal versus planned and legal deforestation.

The pure CO2 gas is sold to our customers in key markets, including: food and beverage industries, commercial agriculture, the energy sector and the automotive industry.

Suburban residential development stifled any substantial business growth, since much of the economy was formerly wrapped up in commercial agriculture.