Sentences with phrase «farmers out of the land»

They lamented that the destruction which they valued at over N100m was a huge setback for them, adding that the herdsmen wanted to force farmers out of the land.

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That means bright prospects for companies like Winnipeg - based Farmers Edge, which uses proprietary software to collect and analyze crop data, and offers field management consultation and technical assistance to help farmers get the most out of theiFarmers Edge, which uses proprietary software to collect and analyze crop data, and offers field management consultation and technical assistance to help farmers get the most out of theifarmers get the most out of their land.

If your sales people who go out and land new customers are considered hunters, growth here is the responsibility of your farmers — your people whose focus is on growing an existing customer relationship by, say, selling them new services, products, or even by expanding into a new division.

According to a testimony at the Asian Women's Tribunal held in Bangkok in 1994, a group of women farmers had taken out a protest march to the developer of prawn farms, shouting «Don't take our land!»

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

Think of a farmer who plough his or her land and plants crops without fertiliser and all the necessary inputs of production yet expects to harvest more than those who have met the necessary inputs of maximum production... wenger out!

«Farmers, who we have always contended are tied to the land, are now seriously investigating moving their businesses out of state and closing their doors.

In an occasion, CPI Marxist wanted to evict some poor peasants out of their lands by pursuing a pro-Chinese (CPI Marxist is perhaps the only pro-China communist party of India) policy, trying to industrialise West Bengal fast on the cost of leaving poor farmers homeless and landless, and joining a capitalist pro-globalisation economic program.

Governments can try to conserve with stricter policies, activists can petition developers and farmers, and benefactors can buy land out of the goodness of their hearts (much like the investment firm Goldman Sachs, which recently purchased some 700,000 acres in Patagonia for conservation purposes).

«Essentially, a beekeeper would ask a farmer if he could put out hives on the farmer's land, a farmer would say yes, and that was the end of it.

The survey asks farmers whether they have had to cull their herds, import water or take land out of production.

Quite simply, the first farmers were not very successful at eking out a living from the land, and their grain - heavy diet was deficient in protein and vitamins — critical for fueling growth of the body and brain.

A farmer had intended to clear a few hectares of land to plant coffee bushes, but the fire — set during an unusually hot, dry spell — quickly got out of hand.

Tim points out that 50 % of independent farmers are set to retire in the next 10 years and that much of this farm land will be up for grabs.

FEMME TO FARM For those seeking to connect with nature on a professional level, Lisa Kivirist's Soil Sisters: A Toolkit for Women Farmers takes some guesswork out of forging a life from the land.

Among openDemocracy's articles on African politics and conflicts: Gillian Slovo, «Making history: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission» (5 December 2002) Katharine Houreld, «The cost of peace in Ivory Coast» (15 February 2006) Patricia Daniel, «Mali: everyone's favourite destination» (11 May 2006) Gilles Yabi, «Guinea: a state of suspension» (28 February 2007) Angelique Haugerud, «Kenya: spaces of hope» (23 January 2008) Anna Husarska, «Kenya's displaced people: a photo - essay» (5 February 2008) Lyndall Stein, «Ethiopia: the tears and the rains» (23 July 2008) Emmanuelle Bernard, «Guinea - Bissau: drug boom, lost hope» (13 September 2008) Lara Pawson, «Angola's elections: the politics of no change» (23 September 2008) Elleke Boehmer, «Beyond the icon: Nelson Mandela in his 90th year» (12 November 2008) Gérard Prunier, «The eastern DR Congo: dynamics of conflict» (17 November 2008) John Makumbe, «Zimbabwe: wrong way, right way» (2 February 2009) Gérard Prunier, «The Kenya we want» (3 February 2009) Gérard Prunier, «Somalia: beyond the quagmire» (25 February 2009) Roger Southall, «South Africa's election: a tainted victory» (7 April 2009) I advised the macadamia nut - farmers to form a cooperative and work together to get to the bottom of what had happened - find out who owned the macadamia trees; create a register; then determine who was selling macadamia nuts even though they had no trees growing on their own land.

This lead to his pinball machine business in the local barbershop before he was a teenager, and then he decided to purchase a large amount of land to rent out to the local farmers.

The corn based biodiesel caused farmers to take land OUT of conservation programs!

I have yet to see the local state universities go out and try to teach land conservation and management to any of the local subsistence farmers.

But, the negotiator emphasized, all of this comes down to helping farmers make a living by coaxing food out of the land to feed their families and the rest of us.

This is rather curious considering that Heartland Farmers have admitted that some of those same neighbours would have agreed to have wind turbines on their land if they could have got more money out of the Ceres proponent.

Import duties raise the price of goods for everyone, farm subsidies take productive land out of use because the government pays farmers not to grow.

Once river levels were controlled, more water stayed in the river with some of it pumped out when the farmers needed it as opposed to washing over the land during floods, whether you needed it or not.

About 91 % of farmers are practicing the technology at different levels depending on the component adopted out of the six, namely minimum land tillage; laying out fixed planting basins; no burning of crop residues; planting and input application in basins; and rotation with nitrogen - fixing crops for soil fertility restitution, outlined by the Conservation Farming Unit (CFU).

He pointed out a variety of hurdles for current green - belt farmers: there has been a significant decline in horticultural production in London since 1970 and the contribution to the London economy of horticultural production is minor; vandalism and crime are a major issue; very few farmers own the land they manage; many farmers want to diversify (2005 survey), but they often see legislation as a barrier to this; many also want to release land for community use, but there is a need to balance the risks to the stakeholders; ageing is an issue as there are no young, skilled newcomers joining the industry.

Here in the United States, farmers are pulling land out of the federal conservation program, threatening fragile habitats... Most troubling, though, is that the higher food prices caused in large part by food - to - fuel mandates create incentives for global deforestation, including in the Amazon basin.

Land came out of conservation reserve programs, farmers broke their contracts, to put land back under cLand came out of conservation reserve programs, farmers broke their contracts, to put land back under cland back under corn.

He had a live - in servant, a government of Bangladesh pension as a retired engineer, and a 50 - acre parcel of farm land which was 80 - per - cent leased out to tenant farmers for an undetermined amount of rent.»