Crop diversity can also deliver important ecosystem benefits. Varieties that are tolerant to drought and flood can not only increase productivity, but also can prevent soil erosion and desertification.

Crop diversity can also deliver important ecosystem benefits.

Cotton ranks among the world's most important crops.

Certain crops can be grown in their own homes.

In addition, crop diversification has reduced the need for costly and environmentally damaging pesticides.

Justru sebaliknya, upaya upaya perlindungan tanah secara berkelanjutan dapat menaikkan hasil pertanian khususnya bagi petani kecil.

Success will also require more funds for reconstruction, development, and alternatives to opium poppy cultivation.

Keeping and breeding doves is a traditional pastime for residents of Derbent.

New crops that had come to Asia from the Americas via the Spanish colonizers in the 16th century contributed to the Asia's population growth.

Our culture, our cultures?

Water lies at the heart of life, whether for drinking and washing, irrigating crops, watering cattle, or generating power. Those of us who live with wet weather tend to curse it, but if we faced week after week of blistering sun with no prospect of clouds in sight, we would be in real trouble.

The Minister recalled that this year sowing of agricultural crops for the 2013 harvest made up 3.1 million hectares, including acreage of grain crops of 1.7 million hectares, which is 3.3 higher than last year.

There is a disintegration of cultures.

Continuous cropping (in which there is no fallow season) is gradually becoming a more common mode of production because of increased profits and a reduction of soil erosion.

The area of the district is .

Sementara itu, kenaikan suhu meningkatkan kemungkinan terjadinya hama dan penyakit pada tumbuhan, membahayakan produktivitas pertanian dan menjadikan penduduk semakin sering menderita gelombang panas.

Under traditional agricultural conditions, the yields of grain rice, wheat, maize, sorghum, or millet are usually around one ton per hectare, for one planting season per year.

In Europe and beyond, GMOs became emblematic of the powerful economic fears that globalization inspires. In country after country France, Britain, Germany, New Zealand, and elsewhere farmers and ecologists jointly oppose, and sometimes sabotage, trials of GM crops.

In country after country France, Britain, Germany, New Zealand, and elsewhere farmers and ecologists jointly oppose, and sometimes sabotage, trials of GM crops.

Farming carnivorous fish increases rather than reduces pressure on wild stocks.

In southern Ghana, for example, farmers have managed to reduce crop failures arising from rainfall variability and unpredictability by cultivating several drought tolerant types of the same crop species.

In this third post, we will focus on the monocultures of the Nanay river and the problem this is causing between those who support this type of crop and those who advise against it.

The police did not intervene, even though such distribution of liquor and open fires are strictly prohibited.

Very common is also the breeding of poultry, pigs with modern techniques, and the traditional sheep herding.

According to the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri biotech Applications (ISAAA), GM crop adoption is growing at double digit rates, reaching 114.3 million hectares in 23 countries in 2007.

Even agricultural lands could no longer suffice.

We are the main drivers of rural community conservation.

Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences Всесоюзная академия сельскохозяйственных наук имени В. И. Ленина ).

But your agricultural subsidy programs block us from establishing any sort of comparative advantage in most agricultural products.

Meanwhile, vertical farm experiments which aim to augment urban food supplies by cultivating crops in skyscraper greenhouses are proliferating from the American Midwest to Osaka, Japan.

There are many countries and many cultures on Earth.

Fundamentalism is thus not a protest by original cultures under threat it reflects these cultures' disappearance.

62 190. Agricultural technology for development

Economy Agricultural lands comprise 38.4 of the district's territory.

Aquaculture, the farming of fish and other aquatic organisms, could in principle ameliorate the coming shortfall.

Governments lose their legitimacy when they cannot guarantee their populations most basic needs safe drinking water, staple food crops, and fodder and water for the animal herds on which communities depend for their meager livelihoods.

Intercropping. Intercropping really increases income.

Sometimes being strategic with crop selection isn t enough.

Biodiversity is essential for reliable and stable long term food production. The famines in Ireland in the nineteenth century and in Ethiopia in the late twentieth century provide clear evidence of the vulnerability of undiversified crops to environmental changes, and the dramatic consequences of such vulnerability for the population.

The famines in Ireland in the nineteenth century and in Ethiopia in the late twentieth century provide clear evidence of the vulnerability of undiversified crops to environmental changes, and the dramatic consequences of such vulnerability for the population.

The imposition of a border zone has gobbled up 29 of the strip s agricultural land.

Around 12 percent of Canadian farmland is in Manitoba.

Sahidul Haque, in an opinion piece for Bangladesh's The Financial Express, says more higher yielding seeds are also needed, as well as varieties that can grow in drought and saline conditions.

The area is also a treasure trove of unique cultures and untamed natural riches.

That will put more pressure on the country s already limited stock of agricultural land.