Farmers used DDT to protect cash crops like cotton, corn, and apples from a wide variety of agricultural pests. |
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The men handle cash crops if there are any, and may have jobs fishing or building, or in offices in the cities. |
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The gorillas' natural habitat has been gradually destroyed to make way for farmland and cash crops for sale on the global market. |
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She rose early to watch the farm workers begin their days planting and harvesting maize, tea and other cash crops. |
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But while they are growing he is cultivating the other cash crops including tomatoes, onions, cabbages, chilli peppers and coffee beans. |
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This SEWA farm, like many in Gujarat, grows mangoes, tea, spices and other cash crops. |
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They have a fallback in subsistence production and other cash crops, such as cocoa and copra. |
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Sugarcane, tobacco, and cotton are grown as cash crops, in addition to chilies, oilseeds, and pulses. |
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The economic upliftment was possible due to changes in the cropping pattern the farmers started growing cash crops in most of the cases. |
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The principal cash crops are coconuts, bananas, pineapples, sugar, tobacco, and abaca. |
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A huge number of cash crops, such as those mentioned above, have replaced the opium poppy as the Hill Tribes' livelihood. |
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The rather long drought in the district has taken a heavy toll on the cash crops like maize, tomato, capsicum, ginger and paddy. |
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This is the area where significant cash crops are grown, including pyrethrum, coffee and tea. |
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Certain flowers, such as the beautiful cyclamen, are grown as cash crops in the developing world. |
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The country is self-sufficient in food production, despite the increased production of cash crops. |
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Since spring of 2008, micro-grants have been used to fence off and irrigate communal gardens for village women to farm cash crops. |
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It is basically an agricultural area and cash crops like tea and coffee are the traditional economic activity. |
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Finally enterprising farmers who produced a surplus could sell their excess for coin, invest in more land, and grow cash crops like cotton and tobacco. |
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On the other hand, he explained that the current hunger in his area was due to people concentrating on growing cash crops such as cotton instead of maize. |
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Many farmers from the kolkhozes continue to grow food and cash crops on their private plots, using resources from the collective farm. |
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Any significant rise in temperature could also seriously affect cash crops such as tea or coffee. |
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In the development-policy debate, the meaningfulness of cash crops is widely regarded with scepticism. |
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Most people are smallholders, producing just enough food to subsist on and perhaps a few cash crops. |
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Where water availability in the soil has increased, the male farmers have tended to go in for cash crops instead of food crops. |
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Women were often excluded from the more lucrative sale of cash crops and from butchery and the sale of manufactured and technical goods. |
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In addition, trap crops like small grains can be used to capture leftover nitrogen from farm fields after a harvest of cash crops. |
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The village has no irrigation, no grain silos, and no tomatoes or cash crops to trade for nsima, the country's maize staple. |
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Therefore, all tenant farmers are indirectly forced to cultivate all their land with profitable cash crops. |
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Small-scale fences owned by individuals or co-operatives encircling irrigated crops or cash crops such as cashews and bananas are most likely to succeed. |
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They have always played an important role in agriculture, both in subsistence production and in the production of cash crops on small peasant farms. |
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Commodity prices for cash crops remained at relatively high levels and farmland values increased as a result, tempered by increased input costs. |
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Although this region is one of the driest areas of the country, the river makes the growing of high-value cash crops highly feasible. |
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There have been many people who have diversified and switched over from cash crops and gone into the cattle sector. |
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It looks like a banner harvest for soybeans and corn, Ontario's number one and two cash crops. |
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They are not anywhere near a monetarised economy and do not have anything interesting to offer in terms of cash crops. |
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Trees are cut down to grow cash crops and wild creatures are shot. |
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Coconuts and hemp are important cash crops. |
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We also believe that increased attention and resources should be dedicated to aiding coffee growers to develop profitable markets or, where necessary, alternative cash crops. |
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Passion fruit, coconuts, pawpaw, and limes are cash crops. |
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Most people who live in or near Thailand's forests are farmers who grow rice for household consumption and depend on an array of cash crops and off-farm labour to meet household expenses. |
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The long rainy period is the main cropping season when all farmers in the country including those in the marginal areas get busy in producing both food and cash crops. |
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They raise cattle, cereal grains and other cash crops as well. |
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Since spring of 2008 micro-grants have been used to fence off and irrigate communal gardens for the cultivation of cash crops exclusively by village women. |
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The western provinces have set aside the natural prairie grasses to grow cash crops, even in areas that, from an environmental perspective, would be better off left in their natural state. |
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He suggested responses such as creating employment programmes to recover the natural landscape of the Caatinga Biome, reforesting riverbanks and promoting solar-powered irrigation of cash crops. |
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According to experts, international trade provided opportunities for growing more profitable crops, thus facilitating the switch from staple agriculture to cash crops. |
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In the tropical zone trees are much more important as food crops and cash crops than in temperate zones, where palms and large herbaceous perennials such as banana are absent because of the cold winters. |
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The current ratio is considered a more significant measure in farm sectors with a higher degree of commodity price volatility, such as cash crops. |
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Development and Peace is particularly concerned about the continued support of G8 countries and multilateral institutions for large-scale industrial farming to produce both agrofuels and cash crops for export. |
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The time came, however, when the hard working farmer needed cash crops to buy the appliances and comforts of life which became available with the development of industry. |
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However, factors such as increasing population pressure on a given land area or market incentives to produce cash crops cannot be allowed to compromise the integrity or sustainability of the traditional system. |
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Moreover, the increased growing of cash crops depletes the improved water availability, so that domestic water supply, which had just improved, is again under threat, with negative consequences for the girls and women. |
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The first step will be to develop suitable technologies to help boost agricultural productivity and identify high value cash crops that can be cultivated using the smallholders' abundant source of family labor. |
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Akhter says the Nayakrishi Andolon movement promotes food and cash crops that make use of local seed diversity and available organic inputs and are better suited to local ecologies than tobacco. |
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The situation is further aggravated by the fact that large areas are given over to the cultivation of cash crops such as tea, coffee, groundnuts and cacao. |
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Nutmeg, oil palm fruit, and cocoa are major cash crops. |
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Gardens of tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, and tobacco are scattered in the shade of fruit trees, and coffee trees, kola nuts, and oil palms are important cash crops. |
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In some areas food crops are sold as cash crops. |
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The use of African slaves was fundamental to growing colonial cash crops, which were exported to Europe. |
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Instead, the cash crops were transported mainly by a separate fleet which only sailed from Europe to the Americas and back. |
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Forced labour of the peasants by the zamindars became more prevalent as cash crops were cultivated to meet the Company revenue demands. |
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The Southern colonies in particular relied on cash crops such as tobacco and cotton. |
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Farmers prospered from mainly cash crops needed to support the urban and seafaring population. |
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For example, Child slavery has commonly been used in the production of cash crops and mining. |
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In the early 19th century, two new cash crops, coffee and cocoa, were introduced. |
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Main cash crops are coconut, cashewnut, arecanut, sugarcane and fruits like pineapple, mango and banana. |
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Manufactured goods and cash crops from the Mughal Empire were sold throughout the world. |
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In an agricultural area and once a typical cotton plantation village, Sumter is now primarily an industrial centre, but cotton and tobacco are still important cash crops. |
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If vegetable farmers were to depend totally on leguminous cover crops to supply the nitrogen for their cash crops, they would need at least twice the land base they need for the vegetables themselves. |
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Malawi's tropical climate and fertile soils provide an ideal growing environment for cash crops in addition to catering for the food needs of its 10.7 million-strong population. |
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When potato blight hit the island in 1846, much of the rural population was left without food, because cash crops were being exported to pay rents. |
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The principal cash crops are tea, horticultural produce, and coffee. |
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At a cost of just R750 the time saving automatic irrigator allows bigger areas to be cultivated, converting the area's smallholdings from subsistence farms to cash crops. |
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They were made to work in plantations owned by Somalis along the southern Shebelle and Jubba rivers, harvesting lucrative cash crops such as grain and cotton. |
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Further inland are highlands in Central and Rift Valley regions where tea and coffee are grown as cash crops which are major foreign revenue earners. |
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