industrial crops. Some of the new crops included staple foods such as sugarcane‚ rice‚ new varieties of sorghum and wheat‚ spinach‚ artichokes‚ eggplants‚ oranges‚ lemons‚ lime‚ bananas‚ coconuts‚ watermelons‚ and mangoes. Industrial crops included cotton‚ indigo‚ and henna. As new crops were being introduced‚ new agricultural methods were introduced as well. For example‚ irrigation‚ fertilization‚ and crop rotation were new methods used by cultivators. As a result‚ the combined effect of new crops and
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A gross margin is the amount of cash left over from growing any particular crop. It is not an absolute measure of profit but it will determine the best financial result when a number of different crop alternatives are compared. Gross margin is usually reported in a $/ha figures. Gross margins do not include overhead costs such as rates‚ living costs‚ insurance‚ that must be met regardless of whether or not a crop is grown. For this reason gross margins are not a measure of the profit of
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Measure the degree of slope for two cultivated hill slopes present 6. Sketch a hill slope‚ showing the plot arrangement and size‚ crops grown and degree of slope 7. Does the farmer own‚ lease‚ or rent the land on which the farm is situated? 8. How did the farmer acquire the land if owned? ❖ Farming Practices 1. Is mixed cropping undertaken? If yes‚ list the crops cultivated. (photograph) 2. Is mixed farming practiced? If yes‚ name the animals reared and state approximately how much of each
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Organic farmers use legumes to fertilize their soil because legumes take nitrogen from the air and transfer it to the soil. Leguminous green-manure crops can add anywhere from 40 to 200 pounds of nitrogen to an acre of soil (Fossel 31). Along with legumes‚ organic farmers also use a technique called green manure. Green manure is any cover crop
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Agricultural Production………... 76 - 83 Environmental Factors Affecting Agricultural Production…………………………………….. 84 - 91 Types of Soil………………………………….. 92 - 99 Identification of Crops………………………… 100 - 107 Module 4…………………………………………………..… 107 Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 Common Food Crops Cultivation‚ Harvesting And Importance………………………………. 107 - 116 Vegetable Crops II. (Vegetable‚ Carrot‚ Cucumber and Lettuce)……………………… 117 - 126 Root
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History Living Conditions: As the industrial revolution gathered pace‚ housing was needed for more and more workers. Some landlords seized the opportunity to exploit this situation. They made their profits by cramming as many poorly-built houses into as small a space as possible. Such as cramped‚ squalid living conditions proved the perfect breeding ground for disease. The new factories were like magnets. Made small tows overcrowded cities due to the knock on effect. The development of factories
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They over use fertilizers‚ which contain chemicals such as petroleum‚ that make the soil economically useless and dangerous to living organisms. Pesticides‚ which are also very harmful in the farming world and overused as well‚ cause much damage to crops everywhere. In a chapter from a book‚ The Long Emergency‚ Kunstler argues that we as Americans have been “eating” our sources of natural gas by the use of petroleum-based herbicides and pesticides and fertilizers made out of natural gases and if we
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periods of drought to recover because they were so close together. Another issue was that the droughts occurred at the same time as the economic downfall known as the Great Depression. This meant the farmers did not have the money to spend to help their crops. Also‚ many farmers simply believed that the droughts would end and that the rains would come soon as they had many other times in the 1900’s (Drought). Climate misconception played a large role in the creation of the Dust Bowl as well. The misconceptions
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planting 3.4 Trying things out: implementing chosen approaches 3.5 Sharing the results: spreading good practice 3.6 Keeping up the process 4. Managing the Agroforestry System 4.1 Crop diversification 4.2 Tree-crop interactions 4.3 Tree choice and planting arrangement 4.4 Using perennial tree crops 4.5 Contour strips 4.6 Soil and water conservation 4.7 Soil fertility management 5. Linking Agroforestry to Livelihoods 5.1 Mushroom production 5.2 Bee-keeping 5.3 Agribusiness
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2.3 Removal of vegetation 8 2.4 Shifting cultivation without adequate fallow periods 9 2.5 Overgrazing 9 2.6 Poor farming methods 9 - 10 2.7 Cultivation of marginal lands 10 - 11 2.8 Improper crop rotations 11 2.9 Unbalanced fertilizer use 11 2.10 Pests and diseases 11 3. Underlying causes of degradation Page 12 3.1 Land shortage 12 3.2 Land tenures 12 - 13 3.3 Economic pressures 13
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