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By Lee Rinehart, NCAT Agriculture Specialist I’m sure farmers have been using living mulches for ages. They are documenting Lincoln’s living cover crop system, where he undersows Dutch white clover into vegetables after the last cultivation in July. Now it becomes a perennial living mulch to direct seed or transplant cashcrops into.
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But beyond this, the destruction of local agriculture is creating the conditions for long-term famine and displacement. Before 7 th October 2023 , farms and orchards covered almost half of Gaza’s total land area and more than 7,500 greenhouses contributed to an agricultural sector normally worth over $575m a year.
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