It was only in 2000 B.C. that there was a fluctuation in the Mayan civilization when the people started
using farming techniques and building structures.
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.
Modern farming practices propagate select varieties of crops and
use farming techniques aimed at higher yield and economic gains, and not nutrition.
Not exact matches
The team
uses a
technique called hydroponic
farming, in which crops grow under LEDs in nutrient - rich water.
Ministers cast about for responses to displaced
farm families, to the deepening misery of the rural and urban poor, to the epidemic
use of drugs in every strata of society, to half a million homeless children; they seek
techniques for church growth, approaches to spiritual nurture and meaningful worship.
I heard a story about farmers in Haiti who, a few decades ago, were given tractors and other
farm machinery so they could
use new
techniques to keep their land from eroding away.
Organic farmers also
use numerous integrative pest management
techniques which promote environments that support beneficial insects such as pollinators by providing them with habitat, and
use farming methods such as crop rotation which provide a diversity of nutritious floral food sources to reduce the prospect of malnutrition.
Caribou Coffee beans are grown
using sustainable
farming methods and strict water conservation
techniques, and the people who grow them are treated well.
Agriculture Minister Cao Duc Phat and Vice Minister Le Quoc Doanh convened a multi-stakeholder effort to refine key elements of the strategy, which includes developing rice varieties with high export value, adopting advanced crop management
techniques, and more intensive
use of machines and other technologies in rice
farming.
Cassandra Curtis and Ari Raz of Once Upon a
Farm LLC revolutionized the baby food aisle by introducing cold - pressing and high - pressure processing (HPP)
techniques instead of
using preservatives.
In an era of rapid development of genetic engineering
techniques a new position paper aims to clarify which breeding
techniques can be
used in organic
farming.
In fact, Frontal Agritech's slogan «Redesigning Agriculture» doesn't refer to any high - tech approach, but to organizing
farms in their area and teaching their owners traditional
farming,
using organic
techniques wherever possible.
Cheese Twig
Farm breeds and raises its own goats to produce grassy aged wheels
using traditional farmhouse
techniques.
By restricting
farm inputs farmers have to
use preventive
techniques appropriately.
use the demonstration
farm for smallholder farmers from all over the country to come and learn about organic agriculture
techniques.
Shepherd was named one of the Top 10 Chocolatiers in North America by Dessert Professional magazine in 2009, and his Lillie Belle
Farms has come to be known for award - winning, artisan organic chocolates that are completely handmade
using time - honored European
techniques, but with an American twist.
If you
use baby formula such as Holle, you are choosing a product that meets strict biodynamic
farming guidelines and Demeter quality
techniques.
Created by a Minnesota - based company called Recombinetics, the hornless cattle are the first of a new wave of
farmed animals developed
using techniques that, unlike conventional genetic engineering, involve no «foreign» DNA (see «How to tweak a genome «-RRB-.
Prescribed or controlled burning is a
technique sometimes
used in forest management,
farming, or prairie restoration.
In February, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in St. Louis, he captivated the crowd with early results from a project in Africa that
uses low - cost fertilizers and improved
farming techniques to increase crop yields several times over.
Vertical
farms use hydroponics and aeroponics, soil - free growing
techniques once researched by NASA to grow plants in space.
In recent years, some growers already have dramatically reduced the amount of water and synthetic fertilizer they
use by practicing precision
farming techniques, such as drip irrigation, which reduces the overall amount of water
used and therefore nitrate runoff.
This
technique could be
used to help differentiate between the highly valuable naturally - formed pearls from the less desirable
farm - cultured variety.
Agriculture Minister Cao Duc Phat and Vice Minister Le Quoc Doanh convened a multi-stakeholder effort to refine key elements of the strategy, which includes developing rice varieties with high export value, adopting advanced crop management
techniques, and more intensive
use of machines and other technologies in rice
farming.
In addition to highlighting innovative soil management
techniques already employed on
farms and ranches around the world, the author articulates how smart land
use could reduce greenhouse gas emissions and provide benefits to all living things.
We ethically source our turmeric directly from small community
farms in the heart of Sri Lanka,
using the most sustainable
farming techniques.
My husband passed along Michael Pollan's book Omnivore's Dilemma when he was done, and I was especially fascinated by Joel Salatin's Polyface
Farms, specifically Michael's description of the
techniques used to raise pastured beef, eggs and chicken and the resulting health of the
farm's entire ecosystem.
While this issue of diet and physical degeneration remains perennial throughout the history of human agriculture, the problem stabilizes and begins to reverse as early
farming societies discovered the importance of
using food preparation
techniques such as fermentation, to increase digestibility and nutrient absorption.
We only
use a premium maca that is organically grown in a region totally untouched by modern chemical
farming techniques or polluting industrial activity: the pristine Junin valley of the Andes mountains, 14,500 feet above sea level.
This was also a time when
farming and animal husbandry animals
used natural, sustainable
techniques — not
used in today's commercial
farming.
Thanks to modern technology, many of our food is sourced through industrialized
farms using modern
farming techniques.
These community run
farms use a
technique known as Analog forestry, which imitates the native biodiversity of the region's flora and fauna, by planting in the shade of tree canopies to assist in replenishing the nutrition and moisture of the soil.
We ethically source our organic turmeric and most of our other ingredients directly from small community
farms in Sri Lanka that
use a sustainable
farming technique called Forest Harvesting, supporting Sri Lanka's natural biodiversity, its farmers and local community.
To only
use sustainable
farming techniques that are good for the grower, environment and consumer.
There's been a seismic shift from local farmers to large corporations who do not
use traditional
farming techniques.
When cultivated
using biodynamic and organic
farming techniques, these versatile, tasty greens benefit both the planet and its inhabitants.
This model aims to
use poultry
farming techniques as a tool to eradicate child malnutrition while creating jobs and increasing household income for Kenyan women in rural communities.
Born into slavery, Carver went on to head the Tuskegee Institute's Agriculture Department, where he developed innovative crop - rotation
techniques and new
uses for
farm by - products and founded an industrial research laboratory.
We will provide hands - on training and supervision with all
techniques, including transrectal ultrasound, record analysis
using DairyComp305, embryo production in cattle and small ruminants and on -
farm investigation of herd wide issues.
The
farm manually cultivates over 50 different crops
using organic
techniques.
Rather than a New Game Plus mode, you can revisit and replay previous chapters at any point, either to increase your ranking, or
farm for items and halo rings —
used to buy new
techniques and accessories.
In these works, Fernandéz references the «slash - and - burn»
technique used by Native Americans to create land for
farming through the deliberate burning of forests, a process that essentially designed the American landscape.
According to the USDA's latest data, by 2010 - 11, no - till
farming had grown to the point where roughly 40 percent of the corn, soybean, wheat, and cotton grown per year in the U.S.
used either no - till or a half - step
technique called strip - tilling.
Promising soil management
techniques include controlled grazing; mulching with organic matter; applying manure and biosolids;
use of cover crops in the rotation cycle; agroforestry; contour
farming; hedgerows; terracing; plastic mulch for erosion control; no - till or conservation tillage; retention of crop residue; appropriate
use of water and irrigation; and integrated nutrient management, including the judicious
use of chemical fertilizers.
And while this isn't the first urban
farming project of its kind — it's actually based on a project developed by Curtis Stone in British Columbia, Canada — Grove says that the Orlando group has «tweaked Stone's design a bit to make Fleet Farming even more sustainable, adding the bicycle brigade and using more permaculture techniques.
farming project of its kind — it's actually based on a project developed by Curtis Stone in British Columbia, Canada — Grove says that the Orlando group has «tweaked Stone's design a bit to make Fleet
Farming even more sustainable, adding the bicycle brigade and using more permaculture techniques.
Farming even more sustainable, adding the bicycle brigade and
using more permaculture
techniques.»
Regenerative
farming techniques, such as nutrient management, manure and sludge application, no - till agriculture,
use of cover crops, and crop rotations, can rehabilitate degraded or desertified soils, which span a massive 3.57 million square kilometers in China, and correspondingly increase soil carbon sequestration.
For example, we have captured that forests have much higher carbon content than farmland, and that
farms using conservation
techniques contain more carbon than those
using conventional practice.
well that has a lot to do with inorganic fertilizer application and intensive
farming techniques as well as
using plant varieties with less natural variation too!
Led by Kate Humble, Aquaponics UK are providing technical expertise to explore sustainable food growing
techniques using aquaculture,
farming fish, and hydroponics with few inputs and many, high value outputs.
This passive solar greenhouse is designed to house a productive, edible ecosystem which is also combined with a variety of other complementary
farming techniques such as producing fish and poultry food from insects, growing mushrooms from
used coffee grounds and growing poultry, fed from by - products of the system.