the United States becoming a more modern nation. In 1794‚ Whitney created the cotton gin. It was created to speed up the process of picking the seed from the cotton fibers. After the cotton gin was created‚ farmers were able to grow more of it‚ and harvest in more abundant amounts making it more affordable and the number one cash crop. Farmers were also able to process the cotton without as many slaves‚ giving them more money to buy land. Although the cotton gin being created only helped the economic
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Cotton was run through a wooden drum embedded with a series of hooks that caught the fibers and dragged them through a mesh. Whitney’s hand-cranked machine could produce more cotton in a single hour that what had previously been able to be produced by multiple workers in an entire day. The cotton gin was patented in 1794 and the radical
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enough to grow crops under partial or fully controlled environmental conditions to get optimum level of productivity. ADVANTAGES OF GREENHOUSES: * The yield may be 10-12 times higher than that of outdoor cultivation depending upon the type of greenhouse‚ type of crop‚ environmental control facilities. * Reliability of crop increases under greenhouse cultivation. * Ideally suited for vegetables and flower crops. * Year round production of floricultural crops. * Off-season
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The cotton is run through a wooden drum. In the wooden drum there was a series of hooks. The hooks pulled the cotton through a mesh. The mesh was too fine to let the seeds through but the hooks pulled the cotton fibers through with ease. Smaller cotton gins were cranked by hand. Large gins were powered by horses. Later on‚ large gins were powered by steam engines. Whitney’s machine could remove the seeds from 50 pounds of cotton in a single day. The cotton
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the 1970s and 1980s the tree was very widely planted as a forage tree legume and seen as a solution to many tropical agriculture problems as it was fast growing‚ nitrogen fixing‚ fairly drought tolerent and could be used for fodder‚ shading other crops and as firewood. Its value was recognised by the Spanish colonists of the Americas who spread seeds fo the plant around the tropics. However the species soon became a weed and is now causing many problems by displacing native flora This mimosoid
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population. Most rural areas are dependent mostly on agricultural for food and income. However‚ even being of such great importance‚ the sector is highly undermined. Farmers do not receive necessary assistance to develop crops. Required information for growing and managing crops‚ plowing‚ fertilizers‚ pest control‚ and crisis management are scarce. With the help of information
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diseases need to be controlled to maintain the quality and abundance of food‚ feed‚ and fiber produced by growers around the world. Different approaches may be used to prevent‚ mitigate or control plant diseases. Beyond good agronomic and horticultural practices‚ growers often rely heavily on chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Such input to agriculture have contributed significantly to the spectacular improvements in crop productivity and quality over the past 100 years. however‚ the environmental pollution
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and cognomen (English)‚ tur and arhar (Hindi)‚ it is also known by more than 350 dialect names‚ and is grown primarily as a food crop. Since its domestication in India at least 3‚500 years ago‚ its seeds became a common food grain in Asia‚ Africa and Latin America. The crop ranks fourth in importance as edible legume in the world. It is the second most important pulse crop after chickpea in India (Das et al.‚ 2015). It is cultivated in tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world on almost 4.8 million
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Marijuana‚ also known as pot‚ weed‚ or cannabis is used by many individuals‚ for the most part illegally. Usually teenagers‚ some adults‚ and people who are prescribed to it because of their diseases such as cancer use this drug. Marijuana is a greenish-gray mixture of the dried‚ shredded leaves and flowers of cannabis sativa. The first sighting of cannabis was in Central and South Asia many years ago. Although marijuana is viewed by some as addictive and dangerous‚ its legalization is an important
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Once landing on another flower‚ the pollen falls out of the sac enabling the plants to fertilize and sexually reproduce. For this reason‚ agriculturalists welcome the presence of honey bees among their crops. National Geographic reported “an estimated 14 billion U.S. dollars in agricultural crops in the United States are dependent on bee pollination.” But within the past several years beekeepers have found a high population of weakened and dying honey bees. The last report of a similar issue occurring
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