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Their primary crop was corn, the major part of their diet.

The primary economic sectors were agriculture (grain being the chief cash crop) and animal husbandry.

In Havana, 90 of the city's fresh produce come from local urban farms and gardens.

Its yield was 3.5 megatons, 85 fusion and only 15 fission.

During the summer and fall, sheep are moved to agricultural areas where they feed on the remnants of summer crops.

They are allegedly forcibly obliged to sell produce at a price fixed by the authorities that is many times lower than the market price.

So bread has become from a main staple, a source of calories associated with obesity and also a source of modernity, of modern life.

The farmer may neglect the crop or refuse to invest in saving a failing crop if he knows that a payout is forthcoming.

Meanwhile farming has evolved (in developed countries) in the direction of commercialization, economics of scale, and monocropping.

The regional action programme for desertification control has identified networked activities aimed both at the management of rangelands and at the development of forage crops.

The combination of good rains and an increased percentage of the population being active make it likely that the harvest will improve as compared to last season.

During the last 20 years, the export of this product, along with other commercial activities, has propelled the local economy.

By 1921, cultivated land had shrunk to 62 of the pre war area, and the harvest yield was only about 37 of normal.

That crop, which provides a living for much of Chad's population, is dangerously threatened by the protectionist practices of developed countries.

His land costs are low. So are his labor costs, since he relies on family and friends to weed and pick the crop.

In 2009, a Japanese gentleman showcased a wooden reaping tool with a metal edge, which he used to show how rice was cut.

These poor farmers working the land by hand or with their animals, had yield levels that are comparable to the poorest farmers today in West Africa.

By the year 1919, over 5 million plots were growing food and over 500 million pounds of produce was harvested.

In 1999, Nakamura tried Polish crystals, producing lasers with twice the yield and ten times the lifetime 3,000 hours at 30 mW.

This year Madi may grow even less cotton, even though the crop is the main source of income for himself, his two wives and his five children.

Chile was merely a transit station for the bulk of the catch on its way to lucrative U.S. and Japanese markets.

This rate decreased to approximately 3.4 tonnes per hectare during 1990 to 1991, a reduction in yield of approximately 2.1 tonnes per hectare.

This rate decreased to approximately 2.3 tonnes per hectare during the period 1990 to 1991, a reduction in yield of approximately 1.5 tonnes per hectare.

On any given plantation, 20 percent of the trees produce 80 percent of the crop, so Mars is looking at the genome, they're sequencing the genome of the cocoa plant.

But crop insurance suffers from what economists call a moral hazard, because it reduces farmers incentives to ensure the crop s success.

For example, potato cyst nematodes emerge from their protective cysts in response to a chemical excreted by potatoes they feed on the potatoes and damage the crop.

For example, chemical pesticide or pollen from genetically engineered plants wafting from an adjacent field onto an organic crop does not affect the harvest s status.

The winds destroyed much of the corn crop, about half of the peach crop, and about 1.5 million bushels of apples.

He found that he had some Roundup resistant canola on his land, saved seed from the crop and planted it in all of his canola fields the following year. He sold the canola plants for feed.

In the past, weather insurance could not manage a farmer s risk effectively because we could not measure well enough the effects of weather on crops.

For each crop, Iran calculates the compensation sought by multiplying the decrease in production in 1991, which it considers to be the result of Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait, by the market price of that crop.

There are many barriers to their participation family, low schooling, traditions, and lack of consistent policies aimed at encouraging women to ascend and or occupy senior or leadership positions.

Production of paddy rice, the main staple crop, has increased by 20 per cent over the past two years but has reached only 50 per cent of the pre war level.

They also use techniques such as precision use and timing of fertilizer applications to meet crop needs, use of advanced control release fertilizers and systems delivering fertilizers to plant roots through leaves.

Iraq argues that Iran has not demonstrated that any loss of crops occurred or that there is any causal connection between the alleged reduction in crop production and pollution resulting from the invasion and occupation of Kuwait.

All of the major grains rice, corn, and wheat are already suffering from global warming, the article explains, but wheat is the most vulnerable to high temperatures.

For example, burning a hectare of harvested willow on a field previously used for barley (the typical marginal crop in Denmark) prevents 30 tons of CO2 annually when replacing coal.

Eradication will never be successful in Afghanistan, because it destroys the single crop that will grow in the south s harsh climate and thus serves as the main source of income to millions of people.

Monoculture, a method of growing only one crop at a time in a given field, is a very widespread practice, but there are questions about its sustainability, especially if the same crop is grown every year.

His career as a union leader took him away from agriculture and into politics, where he stood out for his criticism of the United States, whose anti drug crusade meant the eradication of a cash crop for poor peasants.

The moral hazard implicit in crop insurance can be addressed by making payouts depend not on the actual crop failure but on the bad weather that caused it.

This year Madi may grow even less cotton, even though the crop is the main source of income for himself, his two wives and his five children. On some of his land, he now grows corn and peanuts instead of cotton.

Now light and temperature vary with each window's microclimate, so a window farm requires a farmer, and she must decide what kind of crops she is going to put in her window farm, and whether she is going to feed her food organically.