(a) Crop production

In 2003, farm production grew in terms of both crops and livestock.

More food can be grown, reducing dependency on other countries for food.

With the US market close by, Haiti could achieve a remarkable recovery of exports of horticulture, fruits, and other agricultural products, as well as tourism and light manufactured goods.

Production Olives are one of the most extensively cultivated fruit crops in the world.

Emphasis will be given to crop production and income generating activities in order to enhance self reliance.

Some studies show that women are responsible for 25 of the production of major crops and 30 for food.

As part of a survival strategy, crop producers in some countries have substituted traditional cash crops with plants used for the production of narcotics.

Increased production of agricultural crops for non food purposes offers the opportunity to utilize land that would have otherwise been an unexploited resource.

The system was designed to empower farmers, increase the yield of crops and reduce costs and pollution.

For the fifth consecutive year, rain shortfalls resulted in crop failure and poor livestock production.

In particular, aims to encourage the empowerment of women in horticultural and agricultural programmes.

It is the key to the worldwide increase in food production since the 1960 s.

The number of farmers reached by such schemes in illicit crop production areas is still insufficient.

Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT) is a software system that integrates crop growth models with crop, weather and soil data and estimates potential changes in crop yields and water use.

Ripples from the Zambezi, was a project where we Italians decided to teach Zambian people how to grow food.

These are places where water is so scarce year after year that crop production is marginal at best.

These conditions render the rural population vulnerable to the influence of drug trafficking and increase dependence on illicit crop production.

They have no margin for error, so they need to increase their chances of producing a crop.

Noting that efforts in American Samoa are currently aimed at increasing the production of food crops for local consumption,

This is a highly valued horticulture industry that is spurred by simple and efficient biotechnology.

In 1860, Marianne North, an amateur gardener and painter, crossed the ocean to America with letters of introduction, an easel, and a love of flowers.

Intercropping. Intercropping really increases income.

The larger the stocks of wood on earth, in the form of living trees or wooden construction material in buildings, the less CO2 there is in the atmosphere and the cooler the earth remains. So, taking land for the production of bio fuels from forests means speeding up global warming, because bio fuel crops store much less carbon than trees.

The result of these advantages is that higher yields of high quality produce are obtained over an extended period of cropping.

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Involving African women in decision making about crop production turns out to enable environmentally sustainable farming practices.

That said, many African countries are not self sufficient in food production, relying on income from cash crops to import food.

The threats to sustaining such systems, such as monoculture cash crop production, mineral extraction, environmental contamination and genetically modified seeds and technology, should be addressed.

Producing substantial crop yields without greenhouse gas generation from chemical inputs or intensive fossil fuel use is a challenge.

Both programmes have continued to provide direct assistance to irrigation, water supply, veterinary and crop production projects in each of the 29 provinces.

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Foreign investors hope to use large mechanized farms to produce output for export, leaving little or nothing for the local populations.

Drylands include all terrestrial regions where water scarcity limits the production of crops, forage, wood and other ecosystem provisioning services.

The crop prices used by Iran in calculating the value of lost crops are not appropriate for estimating the value of crops that were not, in fact, produced.

In contrast, production of tradeable goods largely based on primary commodities in Africa has tended to work against women, who predominate in the production of non tradeable food crops.

Pressure on water resources due to increased crop intensity brings about increased water resource competition in areas where water resources are scarce.

Concerns have also been expressed about very stringent MRLs recently applied in Japan on various imported horticultural products.

Iran estimates the alleged reduction in crop quality by comparing crop prices in the Southern Provinces in 1991 with national crop prices.

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(b) Reduced drop yields

But we saved the crops!

The livelihood component includes learning processes concerning skills development involving existing alternative sources of income such as abaca fibre production, handicraft making and cash crop production.

46. To reduce dependency on food aid and increase food production among people affected by conflict and drought, the United Nations accelerated its efforts to promote household food security through crop production, veterinary and fishing activities.