Sentences with phrase «into rice farming»

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What began as a small family rice farm using farming techniques ahead of its time, has grown into a mission - driven company which holds itself to a high standard in business, environmental stewardship, and the relationships it has with employees.

While some heavily chemically - farmed soils will contain pesticide hot spots well into the future (if not forever) other soils still have low levels that can safely grow crops like rice which are known to extract arsenic.

Because the USDA houses the National School Lunch Program, and the agency's main job is to sell highly subsidized conventional crops (like corn, soybeans, rice, and wheat) and farmed foods (like dairy and beef), behemoths like Chartwells wind - up pushing cheap, low - quality surplus food into our schools.

A genetic study suggests that it evolved around the same time as Asians were starting to farm rice and ferment it into boozy drinks.

The opportunity to pour carbon back into the soil exists because farming over the past century has depleted its levels of organic carbon, Rice notes.

Twelve days into the mission, Jane Poynter, a young Englishwoman in charge of the farm, put her hand in a threshing machine while winnowing rice.

Though intensive farming may not have been possible in the areas of Mahagara, Chopani - Mando and the Vindhyan Hills, migrants in these areas likely spread rice farming down into the Ganges valley, the fertile plains of Bengal, and beyond Southeast Asia.