Sentences with phrase «plant buffer zones»

To meet certification standards on its farms, Chiquita has worked to protect forest preserves, plant buffer zones of trees along waterways, recycle the large blue plastic bags used to cover bunches of ripening bananas, and improve facilities for workers.

Not exact matches

Our GMO - Tested and Glyphosate - Tested open pollinated corn is grown on small family farms with buffer zones, ensuring that the places where the corn is planted is not downwind from any other conventional corn fields that may be using genetically modified seeds.

For suppliers of agricultural commodities, that can include a range of practices from agroforestry, planting trees and maintaining forest buffer zones to reducing pesticide use, conserving water and soil and protecting wildlife.

Sustainable agricultural practices, such as those we promote through the Sustainable Agriculture Network standard, offer simple, practical solutions, such as maintaining big buffer zones, preferably planted with native trees, between farm fields and waterways.

Mr Baxter claimed when he planted the GM canola, he followed all regulations on buffer zones and notified his neighbours.

And what the rest of coastal USA is doing about this, has nothing to do with rain barrels, oyster reefs, buffer zone plantings, Bacterra Storm Water Filters, picking up soda cans in the marshes and some of the other feel good - do nothing projects that the Virginian Pilot has been promoting to an incredibly naïve local population for several years now.

We need tidal marshes, not granite rip rap sills, volunteer trash pickup programs, oyster reefs, rain barrels, expensive Bacterra storm water filers, buffer zone shrub plantings and the other feel good - do nothing projects that you are so anxious to promote.