A good idea of the range and variety of of the legalistic
crops under cultivation can be obtained through the auspicious and freshly published Blawg Review # 100.
Not exact matches
But we see the
cultivation of hardship
cropping out
under every sky and in every faith, as a spontaneous need of character.
Today at Avery Island, the site of the original tabasco growing and manufacturing operation, there are still fields of Tabasco
under cultivation — but mostly for
crop improvement and seed production.
The public are seen as broadly opposed to the
cultivation of GM
crops, as more than half of Britons who took part in a nationwide debate said they should never be introduced
under any circumstances.
Only later, after it had come
under cultivation, did teosinte undergo the genetic changes that turned it into maize and a staple food
crop, according to the hypothesis.
This corn - centric agriculture is displacing wheat and other
crops, dramatically increasing grain and food prices, and keeping land
under cultivation that would otherwise be returned to wildlife habitat.
That's why, for example, the mass starvation predicted by Paul Ehrlich in his Sixties bestseller The Population Bomb never happened: because thanks to Norman Borlaug's Green Revolution,
crop yields dramatically increased while the area of land
under cultivation remained unchanged.
Grasslands are also
under threat from
cultivation for biofuel
crops, from subsidized carbon credit forests, and from the remorseless encroachment of fire - prone government reserves and pest havens.
Grasslands are also
under threat from
cultivation for biofuel
crops, from subsidised carbon credit forests and from the remorseless encroachment of fire - prone government reserves and pest havens.