Agric4profits

AUGUST 23, 2024

You will realize that post-planting maintenance and services of a tree crop orchard or plantation is an all–year–round activity. It embraces various operati

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The Prison Agriculture Lab is planning to launch an interactive ArcGIS map that presents data from their nationwide study of prison agriculture in the United States. The map will also build off of the Prison Agriculture Lab’s recent report “Growing Chains: Prison Agriculture and Racial Capitalism in the United States.”

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

He is working on the plantation,” his wife announces. As we stroll through the plantation, Huberto’s son nudges the oranges on a nearby tree, handing a few to us to enjoy along the way. Francisco Mendoza and his daughters at the vanilla plantation. The oldest vanilla plants at Juan Martinez’ plantation are six years old.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Introduced to the islands decades ago as livestock forage, invasive vegetation such as Guinea grass and buffelgrass proliferate in the islands, largely on unmanaged agricultural land. In 2016, HC&S, the state’s last sugar plantation, shuttered its Maui operations. Some areas of grazed pasture on Diamond B Ranch went unburned.

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

But if we do it right, it will have a positive ripple effect that will benefit everyone in California and will make the San Joaquin Valley a positive example around the world for agriculture, energy, and socioenvironmental justice. It is the opposite of sustainable agriculture. But how can we do things right?

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 27, 2025

Performance of the orchard or the plantation depends on the quality of nursery preparation, technique and management. The foundation of Tree crop production is actually the Nursery practices and management. This article will take you through nursery techniques and practices of the nursery husbandry in Tree crop cultivation.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 22, 2024

Urban agriculture is expected to be an important feature of 21st century sustainability and can have many benefits for communities and cities, including providing fresh produce in neighborhoods with few other options. But is urban agriculture really as climate-friendly as many people think? Our study, published Jan.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

These oils are agricultural products, but do they have to be? The amount of global agricultural land used for oil crops has nearly tripled in the last 60 years, making it one of the top three categories of agricultural products in terms of land use. Palm oil, for example, is in many processed foods at American supermarkets.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Read all the stories in this series: A Black-Led Agricultural Community Takes Shape in Maryland An urban farm trailblazer begins building a Black agrarian corridor in rural Maryland, fostering community and climate resilience. Methane emissions created by flooded rice paddies account for about 10 percent of global agricultural emissions.

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Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Historians know that turkey and corn were part of the first Thanksgiving , when Wampanoag peoples shared a harvest meal with the pilgrims of Plymouth plantation in Massachusetts. Interplanting these agricultural sisters produced bountiful harvests that sustained large Native communities and spurred fruitful trade economies.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Civil Eats has long covered the intersection of food, agriculture, and the climate crisis, but the droughts, floods, wildfires, and weather extremes—as well as the warnings from scientists—have grown ever more dire. agriculture.

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Kavya Organic Farm

MAY 21, 2023

Best organic farming companies in India:- Amalgamated Plantations Pvt Ltd | Organic Farming Companies It is one of India’s top ten agriculture companies. Amalgamated Plantations Pvt Ltd is the newly formed entity as a result of Tata Tea’s divestiture of its plantation business in East/North India.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Before the prevalence of large-scale, Western agriculture, “every valley that had a stream had a kalo plantation,” says Derek Kekaulike Mar, as he helps peel piles of raw taro tagged for a batch of kulolo. So the health of the kalo is an indicator of health for the whole ecosystem,” Mar explains. Loʻi kalo at Kakoʻo ʻOʻiwi.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

Food Tank is rounding up 25 books about the past, present, and future of global food and agriculture systems to get you through the winter. Decolonizing African Agriculture: Food Security, Agroecology and the Need for Radical Transformation by William G. Moseley In Decolonizing African Agriculture , William G. Author David E.

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Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

Strips of trees, bushes, grasses, or flowers around agricultural or pasture fields can house higher numbers of small mammals than cropland. The burgeoning human population, however, means agricultural impacts are only set to increase. Agriculture already takes up over half of U.S. Runoff from U.S.

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Food Tank

MAY 20, 2024

Finalists who received funding through the Accelerator also include Crystal Levine of CodaBax , Ashley Drakeford of The Capital Market , Richard Francis of Plantation Park Heights Urban Farm , and Doug Adams of New Brooklyn Farms.

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ATTRA

MARCH 19, 2024

By Garbriella Soto-Velez, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Nestled in the clouds, I found myself on a plane capturing the ethereal beauty of a rainbow descending onto St. Regrettably, only five farmers attended, as the rest were immersed in preparations for the 25th annual Bordeaux Vegan Rasta Agriculture Festival.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

JULY 12, 2023

FarmERP, the next-generation farm management platform, has brought a specialised focus on helping Cassava farmers by extending the crop life & bringing plant mortality in Cassava plantations up by 40% through its tech-enabled platform

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 9, 2024

This much-anticipated daylong event, which aims to both promote and protect Oaxaca’s agricultural richness, takes place every year in late November or early December. This year, the fair opened its doors on Saturday, December 2, in the community of San Pablo de Mitla, located about an hour’s drive east of the capital, Oaxaca City.

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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

As I was reading the book, I was trying to think about ways to connect it to my own work around food security and agriculture. The other side of the story is that I come from a long history of Black farmers, Black sharecroppers, Black people who worked in agriculture and on the land. So agriculture has always been a part of my life.

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Civil Eats

MAY 21, 2024

Most farms there still use open-field agriculture—but this approach may not work for much longer in the new climate reality. More recently, we’ve been fascinated by and experimenting with syntropic agriculture.” The agriculture department backs up this recommendation with technical assistance. Mexico has nearly 1.5

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The majority of the world’s cocoa is sourced from West Africa, often harvested by children on vast plantations linked to widespread deforestation. agriculture. We have a big, audacious goal that organic becomes the norm in agriculture, as opposed to the 2.5 Take chocolate , for instance. Sugar comes with its problems , too.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

This is such a basic symbiotic relationship, but it is not even part of the conversation in industrial agricultural orthodoxy. There is not an orchard, citrus grove, coffee plantation, almond farm, or pecan forest that wouldn’t benefit from poultry especially and other livestock generally. The trees shaded and protected the chickens.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The IAS-6100 is compact and portable, making it ideal for diverse settings, including offices, production sites, laboratories, and plantations. IAT offers palm oil quality detection tools to analyse various materials such as palm fruit, FFB, EFB, CPO/PKO, palm kernels, pressed fiber, and production waste.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

World Wildlife Fund, an organization with a longstanding interest in how agriculture affects the planet, is pushing one idea it thinks would benefit not just the Delta but the country as a whole: Delta farmers could start growing more food that people actually eatspecialty crops, such as fruits, vegetables, and other high-value foods.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 18, 2023

I mean, the fungal kingdom is really important to everything—how we live, how we grow food… MF: Right, you talk in the book about how fungus can be helpful or harmful, and one interesting example in agriculture is bananas. So, once a plantation becomes infected, you can’t grow those kinds of bananas there anymore.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

We stopped burning our forests; there was extensive fire suppression, and there was a lot less subsistence agriculture and disturbance of the landscape,” says John Lhotka , an assistant professor of silviculture at the University of Kentucky, about the change in the 20th century.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

Date palm plantations and orchards cover the eastern Coachella Valley to the north. Agricultural runoff from both valleys is the primary input into the Salton Sea, and with that runoff comes pesticides and nutrients such as phosphorous and nitrogen. emissions come from agricultural lands, pasturelands, and unpaved roads.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Read the transcribed version below: THE CONTRIBUTION OF FARMING TO THE RURAL ENVIRONMENT: THE FARMER’S VIEWPOINT BY STEELE ADDISON 6 th November 1985 Agriculture has been severely criticised by the conservation lobby over the last few years. In 1947, the Agriculture Act gave the British farmer price stability for the first time.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

But she was also a crew member at Grow Dat Youth Farm, an organization that teaches young people like herself leadership skills while they learn about sustainable agriculture. Founded in 2011, the group has provided more than 600 jobs for youth in New Orleans and taught nearly 19,000 students about sustainable agriculture during field trips.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Regenerative agricultural practices (and Coffea Stenophylla) could help preserve coffee for years to come. The British had deforested large swaths of land to create industrial-style arabica coffee plantations, turning it into one of the world’s leading coffee producers.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 25, 2024

multinational giant that rebranded as Chiquita in 1990, sustained its banana plantations across Latin America through ruthless, bloody tactics, confronting consequences only rarely. Read More: How Centuries of Extractive Agriculture Helped Set the Stage for the Maui Fires What Impacts Do the West Coast Wildfires, Smoke Have on Crops?

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

Aidee Guzman, 30, grew up the daughter of immigrants in California’s Central Valley, among massive fields of monocrops that epitomize intense, industrial agriculture. Carlisle studies the deep history of regenerative agriculture, going well beyond the buzzword it has become in environmental circles of late.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Our editors, staff writers, and freelance contributors have a wide selection of food and agriculture books to recommend, both for gift-giving purposes and for the quiet moments you carve out for yourself. We hope our Holiday Book Guide can help create a calm harbor of sorts during this often-harried end-of-year season.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

As textile mills began to proliferate, the cotton grown on Southern plantations, which relied on the labor of enslaved people, proved to be a cheaper option than flax. The latter tended to fare better in the North. Pockets of linen production persisted for a while, but by the middle of the 20th century, even those were gone.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

This season of High on the Hog mentions that many Black people have avoided agricultural work because of its association with enslavement, but points out that they are increasingly starting urban farms. He is inferring that the plantation. Are Black Americans’ perceptions of working the land changing?

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