Special Issues in Agriculture Special Issues in Agriculture Edited by Eliseo R. Ponce PHILIPPINE INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Surian sa mga Pag-aaral Pangkaunlaran ng Pilipinas BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH Copyright 2004 by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) and the Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) Printed in the Philippines. All rights reserved. The views expressed in this book are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views
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INDUSTRIAL ANIMAL AGRICULTURE 1. Some definitions: What is ‘industrial animal agriculture’‚ and what are its properties? What are zoonoses? Industrial animal agriculture is a modern form of intensive farming that uses intensive production lines and is designed to produce the highest output at the lowest cost. Industrial farms use new technology which provides them with high mechanisation‚ speed in production and low labour requirements. The animals in industrial farms are kept usually indoors with
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| Nestlé: Sustainable Agriculture Initiative | | | Introduction Sustainability can be defined as the capacity to endure. Our world today‚ populated by nearly 7 billion people - number that will reach 9 billion by the year 2050 - is using more and more resources each day. Our main resource of energy‚ the oil‚ has already reached its climax‚ which mean that we will run out of it within 40 years; our forests are disappearing; our lands are degrading because of intensive farming.. All this
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Though US agriculture seemed strong‚ it did not share in the prosperity of the booming 1920s. U.S. farmers were overproducing food‚ and they had done so since The Great War. At that time‚ Herbert Hoover was the federal government’s food administrator. He pushed for a large increase in American agricultural production since European agricultural production was weak and Hoover wanted Americans to supply them with food. The wheat production in the US was growing considerably by the end of the war‚ before
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NATIONAL POLICY DEVELOPMENT DIALOGUE ON AGRICULTURAL CO-OPERATIVE IN CAMBODIA Preah Sihanouk‚ Farmer and Nature Net (FNN) held a 2 days and a half dialogue known as “NATIONAL POLICY DEVELOPMENT DIALOGUE ON AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE IN CAMBODIA” from 15-17 February‚ 2011 in Kampong Sila district‚ and funded by Canadian Co-operatives Association. There were 90 participants (17 women) whom includes16 cooperatives from Kampong Speu province‚ Kampong Chhnang‚ Takeo‚ Kampot‚ Prey Veng‚ Svay Rieng‚ Battambang
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tractors causes the soil to become impacted which in effect makes the soil become impacted which makes the soil more susceptible to erosion. Overcultivation erosion can be corrected by no-till agriculture . This is a technique that permits continuous cropping ‚ yet it minimizes soil erosion. No – till agriculture is when the field is sprayed with herbicide to kill weeds and then planting apparatus is pulled behind a tractor to accomplish several operations at once . This method prevents the soil from
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“Climate-Smart” Agriculture and Moringa Newton K Amaglo‚ PhD Student‚ Hunan Agriculture University‚ Faculty of Food Science and Technology‚ Changsha‚ Hunan. China 410128. Email; amaglonewton@yahoo.com Nov 2012 Introduction There has been a time in history when humans used tens of thousands of vegetables‚ cereals‚ etc but today we rely on just a few cereals. After roughly 10‚000 years of progressive agricultural civilization‚ seventy percent of the world’s food supply comes from just
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Factors that Affect Soil Nutrients Nutrient availability can be influenced by several factors and these include: 1. Soil Ph: The relative concentration of the hydrogen irons and or hydroxyl irons may either increase or decrease nutrient availability. 2. The Presence of Other Nutrients: The essence of the various mineral salts will either increase or decrease the other mineral salts in the soil. 3. Leaching: This encourages the draining of mineral salts from the topsoil to subsoil thereby depriving
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GMO Assignment Monsanto is an agriculture and biotechnology company. They originally marketed chemicals‚ the first of which was an artificial sweetener called Saccharine Genetically modified mean something has been artificially altered to produce a certain characteristic. In this case‚ modified to be resistant to roundup PCB’s where chemical lubricants‚ oils ect. It was a pollutant which caused cancer and illnesses‚ this was hidden by Monsanto. The controversy was the treatment‚ disposal and use
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Agriculture & technology working model Modern technology is already being used in agriculture. The best example is the use of gene technology or what’s popularly known as agricultural biotechnology in developing drought and herbicide resistant crops. Through genetic engineering‚ scientists have been able to introduce traits into existing genes to make crops resistant to drought and herbicides. One good example is the use of Bacillus Thuringiensis‚ commonly known as Bt. Bacillus Thuringiensis‚ is
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