Sentences with phrase «out of agricultural production»

Montgomery County raises funds to pay for the preservation program by imposing a 5 percent tax on the sale of farms taken out of agricultural production.

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Of all the threats facing our oceans — from pollution from shipping to agricultural run - off and fishmeal production — one stands out as the worst.

A federal judge has decided not to toss out a lawsuit about the constitutionality of Iowa's 6 - year - old «agricultural production facility fraud» statute, meaning the issue will very likely go to trial next year.

The research carried out by the Departments of Geological and Mining Engineering and Agricultural Production of UPM shows that the biochar produced from manure of cattle, pigs and chicken is an organic fertilizer with a high content of nutrients, stabilized organic material and high values of cation exchange capacity.

Industrialization moves more agricultural land around cities out of production.

(See Weber Thompson and Chris Hardwicke) Yet millions of acres of agricultural land in North America and Britain have been taken out of production, their output replaced with imports from nations with lower labour costs and more sunlight.

However, as NECSI's president Yaneer Bar - Yam points out, «Because of large profits for speculators and agricultural interests, a very strong social and political effort is necessary to counter the deregulation of commodities and reverse the growth of ethanol production.»

These concern damages to coastal infrastructure and low - lying ecosystems from continuing sea level rise, where damages would be widespread if sea level turns out to be at the upper end of current scenarios; and, threats to agricultural production in both far south - eastern and far south - western Australia, which would affect ecosystems and rural communities severely at the dry end of projected rainfall changes.

As we pointed out recently, in spite of Oxfam's claim that the poor in Bangladesh are being «driven further into poverty because of climate change», agricultural production and yield had increased, as had GDP.

Even if mitigation were likely to be effective, it would do more harm than good: already millions face starvation as the dash for biofuels takes agricultural land out of essential food production: a warning that taking precautions, «just in case», can do untold harm unless there is a sound, scientific basis for them.