Sentences with phrase «farming reduces labor»

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Usually industrial wages are held low, and an agribusiness approach to farming reduces the need for labor.

Their economies should be labor intensive rather than energy intensive; produce more durable goods to reduce waste; use local materials in building; consume locally grown foods; engage in organic farming; utilize organic garbage; depend on perennial polyculture, aqua - culture and permaculture; favor trains as well as human - powered machines such as bicycles; employ solar power and other on - site modes of producing energy; and in various ways operate on self - nourishing, self - healing, self - governing principles.

Of course they will continue to use equipment that consumes fossil fuels; but on small, diversified, labor - intensive farms, the quantity used will be greatly reduced.

This whole process has been brilliantly successful in reducing the need for human labor on the farm.

Hence celebrating and rewarding farm labor will reduce the process of shifting population from the countryside to the cities.

The story of farming in the last century includes many examples of automated machinery boosting agricultural productivity and reducing the need for human labor.

Several trends are converging to reduce the grain area, including the loss of irrigation water, desert expansion, the conversion of cropland to nonfarm uses, the shift to higher - value crops, and a decline in double - cropping due to the loss of farm labor in the more prosperous coastal provinces.

These trends are combining with economic developments — including the lowering of grain support prices in recent years, the rising wages in off - farm employment that pull labor from agriculture, and the shift to more intensive cropping, such as vegetable production, to reduce China's grain harvest.

Essentially, the business is built around legal outsourcing — finding ways of reducing the reducible tasks of the legal business by farming it out to cheaper labor and automated systems.