intensive agriculture

Examples of agriculture

agriculture
Most of the agriculture practiced here is short-term rice and manioc followed by 4- 7 y of fallow.
Working within the principles of organic agriculture and thus acknowledging the values of the system is also an important context for research.
Attempting to write a global geographical perspective on organic agriculture is a major challenge.
We assume that there are constant returns to scale in agriculture.
We expect returns from agriculture to be greater and fisheries returns to be less under the alternate management plans as compared with the base model.
Secondly, the wildlife has to compete with the surrounding agriculture for the habitat.
Innovations in agriculture tend to promote deforestation, although in the case of land-augmenting technical change this result is ambiguous.
Most of the fundamental changes of which agriculture is but a symptom took place while people were still basically foragers.
Our models demonstrate that organic agriculture can contribute substantially to a more sustainable system of food production.
The primary sector (agriculture, fisheries, forestry, and mining) tends to be more resource-intensive than either the secondary (industry) or tertiary (services) sectors.
Prospects and problems pertaining to the management of arbuscular mycorrhizae in agriculture.
These factors include prices and production costs, crop yields, fish productivity and the suitability of land for agriculture or fish production.
This difference reflects the purposeful selection of producers by the organic contracting company, especially during the introduction of organic agriculture to the region.
This paper builds upon the theoretical framework from the precision irrigation literature to study the roles of information, institutions, and price incentives in irrigated agriculture.
Today their number is decreasing as a result of urban development and the modernization of agriculture.
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Collocations withagriculture

agriculture

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agriculture committee
Perhaps he should reconsider his position and, in that capacity, perhaps reflect more the position of the trade committee than that of the agriculturecommittee.
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commercial agriculture
Such projects are also providing employment and facilitating increased trade and the growth of smallscale commercialagriculture.
conventional agriculture
A multi-criteria evaluation of the environmental performances of olive-growing systems environment to a lesser degree compared to conventional agriculture.
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