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    Fish Farming

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    Fish Farming / Aquaculture What is Aquaculture? Aquaculture is an industry that encompasses the cultivation of aquatic plants and animals in controlled systems for commercial‚ recreation or resource management purposes. The most widely accepted short definition of Aquaculture is the cultivation of any aquatic (freshwater and marine) species of plant or animal. Aquaculture for food production is similar to other forms of animal husbandry‚ the animals are cared for‚ protected and fed with the intention

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    Process of Farming

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    Farming Types of Farming In the Standard Grade Geography exam there are three types of farming you need to know about − arable‚ livestock and mixed. • Arable farms are ones where the main way of making money is by growing crops • Livestock farms are where animals are the important part of the farm • Mixed farms are where animals and crops are both important to the farmer Only British examples are used in the exam questions. Inputs‚ Outputs and Processes Inputs are what go into the

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    Firestick Farming

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    What is Fire stick farming? Fire stick farming is the traditional way Aboriginal people looked after the land and created fire breaks to ensure large destructive summer fires were not a threat. Communication Fire was a form of communication. When water supplies were running low one of the men would travel to where they knew the next source of water would be. On his way there he would take a fire stick and burn small patches of grass as he went. If the waterhole had sufficient water‚ he

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    Dairy Farming

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    Dairy Farming: Dawn to Dusk They say you never know what you have until it is gone. This may sound cliché but I can relate to this one hundred and ten percent. From the time I was born‚ my farm was always alive. There was an enormous amount of energy and atmosphere around my house. We raised dairy cows and if you are familiar with dairy farming‚ you know that it gets to be quite a task. It is a year round job that requires a large investment of your time. It involved my entire family – my parents

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    Vertical Farming

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    Vertical Farming For thousands of years‚ human beings have fed themselves by growing a huge variety of vegetables and grains. In more recent years‚ technology has helped increase harvests‚ shorten growing time‚ and make growing crops indoors feasible. Genetic engineering has brought about strains of plants that are resistant to various diseases. These plants also grow more quickly and spoil less easily. Indoor farming helps to lengthen the growing season and decrease the effect of weather on crops

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    Cotton Farming

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    2006)‚ pp. 19-38 CONTRACT FARMING IN PUNJAB An Analysis of Problems‚ Challenges and Opportunities SHARANJIT S. DHILLON and NAVCHETAN SINGH* Abstract. Private sector participation in agriculture is envisaged through promotion of contract farming and land leasing arrangements‚ which will accelerate the technology transfer process and bring more cash inflows to the cash strapped farm sector. In this paper‚ an effort has been made to analyze the working of contract farming in Punjab as practised by

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    Vertical Farming

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    Vertical farming is cultivating plant or animal life within skyscrapers or on vertically inclined surfaces. The idea of a vertical farm has existed at least since the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. A vertical farm would be a large‚ independently operating structure centrally located in a major city. It would feature two multi-storey‚ skyscraper-like buildings working together- one to manage food production with nutrient film techniques‚ and another to manage waste through living machines and generate

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    Organic Farming

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    their bodies. Over the past century‚ industrialization has occurred in our food systems and‚ in turn‚ resulted in the loss of nutrition and local farming. Organic farming provides not only an alternative safe and healthy farming model‚ but a way to correct the flaws in our current system. There are many benefits of organic foods and organic farming. Organic foods are free of harmful chemicals‚ artificial flavors‚ and preservatives. Conventional farmers use over 300 different pesticides to grow

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    Factory Farming

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    Preparation Factory Farming First of all‚ I am not against meat eating. However‚ factory farming is an unacceptable practice of meat producing and this unethical action need to be stopped. In order to support my idea‚ I am going to discuss the facts about factory farming. In order to have a better understanding about factory farming‚ it is necessary to define what the factory farming is. It is almost where the meat comes from. In 1920s‚ factory farming began to modify family farming to maximize the

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    Farming in the Bahamas

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    Seymour. I am a farmer and was asked to speak at this career fair on some initiatives the government offers to assist and encourage more Bahamians to consider farming as a career. I would take a few minutes to speak generally about farming before telling you about those initiatives. A study of farming in The Bahamas shows that farming has not maintained a steady growth over the years. There was once a large dairy and poultry farm at Hatchet Bay Eleuthera that provided milk‚ eggs‚ and ice-cream

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