He concludes that the demand pressures for increased cocoa exports, changing weather patterns and falling cocoa prices, has led to more monocropping — the agricultural practice of growing only one
type of agricultural product in a large area of land, year after year — and less sustainable growing practices in recent years.
Not exact matches
Banana and plantain (a
type of banana) are the most important
agricultural products in the tropics.
«It's not just about researching a new
type of soy bean — we do a lot
of human nutrition research, for instance, taking an
agricultural commodity and turning it into a
product that everybody can use,» she says.
Officials at the Easton, Pa. - based distributor have made it a point to be positioned for changing trends in the marketplace, whether it was a shift from being an
agricultural / feed wholesaler to a distributor
of pet
products or focusing on certain
types of retailers to partner with.