By and large, however, commercial or cash crop farming aimed at the export market has been in the ascendant.

In other instances, as family members fall ill, households shift from multi cropping systems that include cash crops, to less labour intensive subsistence farming, jeopardizing their food security.

Drug crops are smaller and sometimes hidden in food plantations.

In general, farmers benefit from having an increase in crop yield and from being able to grow a variety of crops throughout the year.

The second concept concerns the efficacy of international efforts to eradicate illicit cultivation.

Cash crops for processing and export have been sorely affected.

9. Projects will be developed on industrial utilization of medicinal and aromatic plants in areas that are in close proximity to illicit crop growing areas to diminish the spread of illicit cultivation and halt the migration of people to illicit crop growing areas.

Pakistan's four nuclear agriculture centres are engaged in helping farmers to grow and harvest more crops.

In this perspective, special attention is given to irrigation techniques, and to promoting suitable crops and soil rehabilitation.

A project aimed at developing root crops will also be extended to these two atolls.

With the end of the drought, displaced persons and refugees were returning and had been able to plant and harvest crops.

So it could make a lot of sense growing food for people where they are going to live in the city.

Newent in the Forest of Dean big polytunnel they built for the school the kids are learning how to grow food.

Some groups of refugees have recently been able to lease farmland near the camp and are being assisted to engage in agriculture to supplement their diet as well as to grow cash crops.

In terms of crop management, the options include the development and introduction of tolerant resistant crops, pest and soil studies, better cropping or farming systems, improved irrigation techniques and crop rotation, as well as changes in the timing of planting of crops.

Zone 3 The area where main crops are grown, both for domestic use and for trade purposes.

(d) Best practices disseminated on alternative development and the factors that encourage illicit crop cultivation

Encourages the provision of viable alternatives for farmers engaged in illicit drug crop cultivation, in order to prevent poverty, hunger and other social harm by ensuring that alternative development measures follow measures to eradicate illicit drug crop cultivation

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

As a result of the technical consultation, new initiatives are being considered for the monitoring of illicit crop cultivation by remote sensing and the rehabilitation of forests destroyed by illicit poppy cultivation.

Given their benefits, GM crops repeat index the proportion of farmers who, after trying a GM variety, choose to plant it again is very high.

In addition, we need to provide them with research and technology to ensure that they can grow the best quality produce, and storage capabilities so that they can sell at peak prices.

I have an idea that if I could get a bunch of people to dig canals to the crops, that we'll be able to grow more crops throughout the year and we'll all be richer because we'll all have more food and that's a true good and service in its best sense.

From morning commutes to the way fashion is designed to the way we grow food, we are consuming and collaborating once again.

The primary sector owes its dynamism to the sub sectors of cash crops, stock raising and forestry.

Soil protection can be maximized through the use of direct sowing methods for energy crops.

(iv) Promoting the use of drought resistant crops and the application of integrated dry land farming systems for food security purposes

(iv) promoting the use of drought resistant crops and the application of integrated dry land farming systems for food security purposes

In Sudan, IFAD has funded research into cash and forage crop varieties that are resistant to drought, salinity and poor soil conditions.

Yet getting farmers to grow the right crops, and more of them, is easier said than done.

At home, its illicit crop cultivation had been eliminated through a combination of law enforcement and alternative development initiatives.

The majority of the population lives in the rural areas and is engaged in subsistence agriculture, primarily root crops and tropical fruits.

In terms of cultivation eradication, around 5,100 hectares, or 5 per cent of the total crop, have been eradicated.

Communities close to wildlife reserves have also started cultivating mentha, a menthol oil producing plant, and chamomile, on their lands.The smell of these plants seems to keep wild animals away, and planting a field of these crops acts as a protective fence.

Trade offs have been made in the case of the increased extent of soybean monoculture cultivation, influencing such factors as the cultivation of other crops, the use of water resources, the amount of land available for grazing, and the ability to support tourism.

Cash crops include copra, cattle, coffee and cocoa, which are produced on a smallholder basis.

The idea of planting these crops was recognised as one of the world s 12 best innovations in the 2011 BBC s International World Challenge Award.

Under the influence of the neighbouring China, and following the administrative need for a sedentary administration, the Khitans began to engage in farming, crop cultivation and the building of cities.

Third World usage In many Third World countries, a smallholding is a small plot of land with low rental value, used to grow crops.

The UNODC Illicit Crop Monitoring Programme assists the international community and Governments concerned in monitoring the extent and evolution of the illicit cultivation of narcotic crops.

Illicit cropping has become marginal, as confirmed by a mission of the International Narcotics Control Board during the second quarter of 1994.

Cropping systems that include a variety of crops (polyculture and or rotation) may also replenish nitrogen (if legumes are included) and may also use resources such as sunlight, water, or nutrients more efficiently (Field Crops Res.

37. With the return of large numbers of refugees and the stagnant economy, the growing of illicit crops, particularly the opium poppy, is a problem of increasing magnitude in Afghanistan.

Production is linked to underdevelopment it is not enough to promote substitute crops if there is no market outlet for these or if they are unprofitable.

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.