a farmer. Making chocolate takes years of manual labor. Like most agricultural crops‚ cacao must be closely monitored by farmers. They regularly walk their fields and check for pests‚ molds‚ and diseases that can potentially wipe out a whole harvest. In addition‚ a farmer must spend three to five years caring for young cacao trees before they’ll produce their first yield. Cacao harvesting is done by hand. Unlike many contemporary crops‚ cacao can’t be harvested by machines. Each thick
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Case Study Report The ITC eChoupal Initiative Index Contents Page No. 1. Executive Summary..................................................................................3 2. Issue...............................................................................…………………3 3. Environmental and Root Case Analysis........................
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caused by the poor organization within the colony. For example‚ the settlers were unwilling to grow their own food supply and establish a reliable foundation for future settlers. Despite the abundance of game to hunt‚ and perfect weather conditions to harvest crops‚ the settlers would instead dig up corpses‚ and in one case a man killed his wife and ate her in order to survive the starvation. By the year 1610‚ only 60 settlers had survived. Morgan’s portrayed the settlers as lazy‚ who were starving by
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harvesting. Coffee trees take 3-5 years to produce their fruit and they require special attention to soil‚ light and climate to produce a quality harvest. The cherries are either picked by hand or machine harvested. Once harvested‚ the fruit must be removed from the cherry to get to the beans. The second stage of making coffee is processing. After harvest the beans have to be processed to avoid the sticky fruit from fermenting and spoiling the beans. There are two ways of processing beans: dry and
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Chapter I Introduction Philippines had been one of the blessed countries for having a good temperature and rich soils for flora and fauna in this world. As an archipelago‚ we are surrounded by water which makes our natural land to be rich in minerals and nutrients that is good for plants. With the precise soil to plant on‚ the country provides the right place for agricultural growth and production. Agricultural sector in the country is one of the sources for living of the Filipino people
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Agricultural Drones Relatively cheap drones with advanced sensors and imaging capabilities are giving farmers new ways to increase yields and reduce crop damage. Breakthrough Easy-to-use agricultural drones equipped with cameras‚ for less than $1‚000. Why It Matters Close monitoring of crops could improve water use and pest management. Key Players 3D Robotics Yamaha PrecisionHawk Ryan Kunde is a winemaker whose family’s picture-perfect vineyard nestles in the Sonoma Valley north of San Francisco
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Agriculture Computers help in agriculture? It can’t sow seeds or harvest crops or irrigate fields. But it can definitely help the farmers and the agricultural scientist in various stages of farming. And why haven’t we used computers in agriculture till date? Just one reason‚ farmers are not comfortable with computers. And since there’s no market for such a technology‚ the industry never bothered to consider that field for making any software. Countries like USA and Australia use software
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farmer by definition has‚ therfore traditional farmers must allocate resources to maximize use of the limited land that they have. Seasonal factors refer to the highs and lows that occur in the use of labor because labor is used intensively during harvest times and significantly less at other times. In response‚ farmers develop a farming system which allocates resources in such a way as to make use of labor most intensively all year round. The kinds of farming systems that traditional farmers have
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That said‚ it should also be noted that the days of mandatory deep digging are on their way out. Improved understanding of soil structure has led to a decreased enthusiasm for breaking up that structure and disturbing highly beneficial earthworms. A good rule of thumb is therefore to dig only on a need-to-dig basis. You need to dig if: * Depending on the mode of disposal‚ the tomato fruits may be harvested at various stages of maturity. Green stage * The fruits are fully developed but are
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temperature‚ the optimum range of growth‚ blossoms and fruit ripeness is 26 to 30°C. Sesame only grows well in a warm climate and in East Africa it is only grown from sea level up to 1500 m. Most varieties of sesame are photoperiod sensitive . Good harvests can be expected when rainfall of 300-600 mm is equally distributed throughout the vegetation
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