Sentences with phrase «in other cash crops»

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.

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It's a major factor behind China's biggest - ever foreign corporate acquisition: ChemChina's planned takeover, for $ 43 billion in cash, of Syngenta (syt), the Swiss - based world leader in advanced insecticides, herbicides, and other crop - protection products and the No. 3 producer of seeds.

Therefore we convert rice field for rubber cultivation and other cash - crops, including horticultural plantations, develop capital intensive production units (in countries like India where the major strength is its labour power), thereby denying majority of people their right to work.

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.

While soybeans and corn are the main cash grain crops being tested in this project, we are also testing a variety of other agricultural enterprises, such as vegetable production, orchards and pastures.

In 2014, farmers in New York State also set a new record for sales with $ 6.36 billion in cash receipts, up from $ 4.7 billion in 2010, representing a nearly $ 1.7 billion increase in gross income from sales of crops, livestock, and other productIn 2014, farmers in New York State also set a new record for sales with $ 6.36 billion in cash receipts, up from $ 4.7 billion in 2010, representing a nearly $ 1.7 billion increase in gross income from sales of crops, livestock, and other productin New York State also set a new record for sales with $ 6.36 billion in cash receipts, up from $ 4.7 billion in 2010, representing a nearly $ 1.7 billion increase in gross income from sales of crops, livestock, and other productin cash receipts, up from $ 4.7 billion in 2010, representing a nearly $ 1.7 billion increase in gross income from sales of crops, livestock, and other productin 2010, representing a nearly $ 1.7 billion increase in gross income from sales of crops, livestock, and other productin gross income from sales of crops, livestock, and other products.

DeLaune said previous field studies from the Rolling Plains and adjacent High Plains demonstrated mixed results, with some showing a reduction in soil moisture and cash crop yield due to cover crops and others indicating no significant impact of cover crops on subsequent fiber yield.

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 other words, the compensation forest users would earn from REDD would have to be more than earnings they could make from, say, converting forest to oil palm or to another cash crop.»

- This later translates into one of the main drivers behind land - grabbing in other continents (usually in developing countries in Africa, but also Latin America and Asia) and huge extensions of arable land used to grow these new cash - crops as opposed to feeding the world.

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

Canada sends 50 percent of its food aid as cash to purchase local crops in Africa and other countries in the Global South.