Sentences with phrase «large scale farmers»

The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana, has noted that, the government's flagship programme for the agricultural sector, Planting for Food and Jobs, will fail if it is not properly restructured to target more small scale farmers, instead of large scale farmers.

Medium to large scale farmers must be encouraged utilizing modern agriculture technology.

These same people have no problem with business men, Vegas casino owners, Large scale farmers, etc, etc, well you get the picture.

Not exact matches

With new high - tech equipment and larger fields, and without the worry of splitting quotas, farmers are now availed of economies of scale.

Pete and Gerry's didn't adopt the industrialized, factory - style farming that was common for egg farmers, and by the late 1990s, it didn't have the scale to supply eggs to supermarkets or large chains.

Food > Smart Farming Utilising technological advancements like drip agriculture and access to real - time weather data is helping both large - and small - scale farmers produce more with less.

This operates on an especially large scale in agriculture, since most people in traditional societies are farmers.

Empowerment through information access can be as basic a matter as a farmer in a developing nation being able to call and find out the current prices for his crops, or as large - scale as an educational satellite video network designed to span the vast territory of India.

Our large - scale composting program converts tomato - processing waste into nutrient - rich soil for independent organic farmers.

Small - scale dairy farmers, in particular, had been concerned that they weren't on a level playing field with large - scale corporate dairies.

But it wasn't until the mid-nineteenth century that the farmers began growing their pimientos on a large scale and processing them into pimentón.

The Organic Confluences Summit brings together farmers, scientists, extension agents, industry members and key policy influencers to address large - scale challenges that the organic sector is facing.

Unofficial data suggests flat output as small and medium - sized farmers continue to leave the sector more quickly than large - scale operations expand.

In this International Year of Family Farming, farmers» leaders from every arable continent have clearly stated that the focus must be on the vast majority of the worlds farmers, small holder family farms rather than large scale agribusiness.

DFMC chairman and NSW dairy farmer Ian Zandstra says the switching of retailer contracts shows the exposure processors and farmers have to the scale of the large retailers.

Murray River Organics was chosen as farmer of the year because of their dedication to organics on a very large scale.

Recent, large scale practical implementation work with farmers has achieved very significant results in sustainably reducing food losses in Sub-Saharan Africa.

But Mr Paravicini said copying Fonterra and building a single large - scale farmer co-operative is not the only means of being competitive.

Policies that encourage production for export also prejudice smallholders as they discourage local production, and lucrative organic markets are captured by better - off medium - to large - scale farmers.

The Green Revolution led to massive genetic erosion in farmers fields and knowledge, erosion among farming communities, besides leading to large scale environmental pollution due to use of toxic agrichemicals and wasteful use of water.

That required the development of space - age greenhouses where astronaut farmers could experiment with harvesting large - scale food crops.

Alter Eco is the exclusive partner of ANAPQUI (the largest and oldest quinoa cooperative of small - scale farmers in Bolivia) in the US market.

Hmmm, but couldn't you make the argument that producing raw milk safely (and ethically, for people who are concerned about that) is not nearly as efficient as large scale operations producing milk that is going to be pasteurized, and therefore costs more for the farmer?

Naturally, she has chosen to target conservation, hunger, and even other school - lunch programs — leaving commodity payments, beloved of her state's large - scale cotton farmers, intact.

Tight purse strings for kids and conservation; loose ones for large - scale farmers.

A group at the Open University, led by Professor Andy Lane, has taken the first systematic look at what large - scale, commodity farmers - not those mainly involved in organic growing - think about genetically - modified crops.

As forests in tropical nations are cleared to make way for large - scale agricultural plots, U.S. farmers may be taking a hit to their wallets.

In addition to large - scale agricultural producers, gardeners and urban farmers may be interested in such a device, the researchers propose.

Conducting the first large - scale, genome - wide analyses of ancient human remains from the Near East, an international team led by Harvard Medical School has illuminated the genetic identities and population dynamics of the world's first farmers.

Many large - scale farmers in the U.S. don't care to hear much about climate change.

What we've done is average out the local effects to pull out what's happening on a very large scale, and it looks like there are benefits to paying farmers to be kinder to the environment,» said Tanentzap.

A study by Qaim had shown that small - scale farmers in India who grew genetically modified cotton had larger harvests compared with conventional cotton growers.

Unlike large - scale agricultural crops engineered to benefit farmers, orange GE petunias focus on «a consumer trait,» he says.

In a book published in 1971, India's Green Revolution, Economic Gains and Political Costs, she reported that farmers with larger landholdings, such as the wheat farmers in the country's north, benefited far more than small - scale rice farmers in the south and east, or landless labourers.

Right now scientists can study the DNA evidence on a large scale and say that the two groups of early farmers weren't related.

But since our food production system has become so commercialized, it's no longer possible for farmers to put back nutrients into the soil on such a large scale.

This northwest section of the country is full of contrasts, from the ancient Maya sites to the modern - day Orange Walk Town; from Old Order Mennonite farmers to large scale sugar cane plantations; from the flat, dry plains to thick rainforests and lagoons.

More than 50 muralists, photographers and filmmakers from around the globe headed to one of the country's oldest farmer's markets to create dozens of new large scale works throughout the district and capture this historic event.

However, should I ever actually complete my proof of concept, I do have a small farmer business plan that could be highly profitable and scale - able even to very large farms.

Horticulturalists (small - scale, low - intensity farmers) had a median Gini of.27, while larger - scale agricultural societies had a median Gini of.35.

Other policy options could also be suggested, including: strengthening education level of farmers, facilitating cheap technologies, spurring irrigation investment through public - private partner, and supporting the land reform such as farmers» cooperation in large - scale production.

First, the Rodale Institute farm is comprised of both large - scale and small - scale farming systems (acres of agronomic field crops and pasture planted alongside hand - managed demonstration gardens) to show farmers, researchers and the general public ways in which the NOP Certification Standards can be employed and met on both scales.

These results suggest that turning organic materials into compost and applying it to rangelands on a larger scale could store a lot of carbon, repurpose organic waste, improve the health of rangelands, increase climate resilience, and help farmers» bottom lines.

And where it has happened, most attention was given to the larger scale, capital intensive and fully commercial farmers, especially peri-urban irrigated vegetable production, poultry and dairy production.

Combining these data with other datasets allows investigating issues such as how small, medium and large - scale farmers are positioned in terms of agroforestry systems (Zomer et al 2016) or impacts on forests (Hansen et al 2013, Godar et al 2014, Meyfroidt et al 2014).

To make more realistic projections, DeLucia and several UIUC colleagues built a large - scale field apparatus that used a system of gas tanks, pumps, and computerized controls to test how rising levels of heat - trapping carbon dioxide would affect soybeans and corn — two mainstays of Midwestern farmers — grown in the open field..

Even large - scale farmers who are allocated large areas for cultivation, abandon the land and leave it as bare when it becomes non-productive.

The «pro-alcohol» programme was seen to leave out the small farmer as it is a large - scale industrial crop.

Rainforest destruction in the tropics could hurt farmers in Europe, U.S. Large - scale deforestation in the tropics could drive significant and widespread shifts in rainfall distribution and temperatures, potentially affecting agriculture...

This was welcomed by many as a farmer - friendly alternative to the large - scale land concessions dominant in the south, one that could boost local livelihoods while solidifying de facto land claims.