segments; Small Farms (10‚000 or fewer birds)‚ Medium Farms (10‚000-50‚000 birds) and Large Farms (over 50‚000 birds). Due to lack of awareness among consumers about the benefits of the product‚ the perceived value of ODI lenses is almost zero. Chicken farming is a very low margin industry and the number of innovators will be limited to those farms that have enough cash to try new products. ODI lens benefits include 1) decreased cannibalization rate (4.5% vs. 9% for debeaking)‚ 2) trauma elimination from
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Marketing Feasibility Page 1 A. General Market Description : Under this section of the proposed project‚ the viability of the project will be presented. Geographical Location The primary target market will be household family that are located within the city of Baguio and La Trinidad ‚ Benguet. The products to be produced will be reaching out to the urban areas of said cities. Both urban areas having a cool temperature is conducive to the project’s organic vegetables namely
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Before I go on about the use of fertilizers in organic farming‚ you must first understand what organic farming is. The simplest way to describe organic agriculture is agricultural production without the use of synthetic chemicals (fertilizers‚ pesticides‚ antibiotics‚ etc). For crop production‚ organic materials such as compost and manure are used to maintain soil organic matter and as sources of nutrients. Nitrogen-fixing as well as pest resistant plant varieties are utilized. The incorporation
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Factory farming speech. What really is factory farming. Well i am going to tell you about factory farming. First off we can all do something about this. How would u feel about thousands of animals crammed are being crammed into dirty‚ windowless sheds and confined to wire cages and gestation crates. They are basically forced into cannibalism because they scratch each other and peak because they are so hungry What sense would be affected first? Smell- horrible‚ rotten‚ death. The sound of
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and resource management. Aside from organic farming‚ the Department of Agriculture welcomed agricultural activities that encouraged active in the preservation of the environment‚ such as agriculture tourism and ecotourism as an additional initiative for agricultural development. Locally‚ the La Top Organic Farmers’ Multipurpose Cooperative (La Trinidad Organic Practitioners MPC) has been a recipient of different assistance to promote organic farming as a viable agricultural production practice.
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There have been many improvements in the farming industry. Indoor farming‚ like greenhouses have come along way in the past century. The constant need for food combined with the lack of sufficient land to grow food has increased the need for scientists to come up with modern advances in the farming business. With the growing need for land and the growing population scientists have come up with the idea of vertical farming. The idea of vertical farming is continually growing. According to Wikipedia
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HIGH PRODUCTION VALUES Laying hens have been bred for egg laying. Modern commercial hens produce a very high yield of around 300 eggs a year. Chickens will naturally live for 6 or more years but after 12 months‚ the hen’s productivity will start to decline. This is when most commercial laying hens are slaughtered. BATTERY CAGES In Europe‚ a battery cage typically holds 4 or 5 hens with a legal space allowance per bird of less than an A4 sheet of paper. The height of the cage is only just enough
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Through the many packaged and wrapped meats‚ people go through everyday‚ there was bloodshed in an immoral manner. Business and industries have done a good job of keeping such methods in the shadows. It couldn’t be more clear to me that factory farming not only paves the way for animals abuse‚ environmental pollution‚ and low quality food‚ yet can even be harmful to the consumers themselves‚ and for
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Factory Farming: Cruel or Not? Have you ever thought about where your food‚ mainly meat‚ milk‚ and eggs in this particular case‚ comes from? To keep up with the abundant demand for food in today’s world people are always looking for ways to better supply that demand. Factory farming is a farm where animals are raised on a large scale using intensive methods and modern equipment. This method is cruel to animals for many reasons‚ such as very small living space‚ poor diet‚ numerous forms of abuse
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Intensive Farming better than Organic Farming? Name: Molly Sexton School: City of London Academy Centre Number: 10877 Candidate Number: 8145 Contents Page Page 1- Title Page Page 3- Introduction Page 4 – Is Organic better than Intensive? Page 5- Is Intensive better than Organic? Introduction In this case study I will be looking at weather “Intensive Farming” is better that “Organic Farming” i will
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