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Cover cropping : Cover crops are strategically planted in between cashcrops or during fallow periods. Cover crops also support biodiversity and provide habitat for beneficial insects. Proper water management helps conserve this resource and ensures its availability for crops.
They create little employment in the local area because they grow cashcrops that don’t need many farmworkers. If those large extractive corporations make a profit with their cashcrops, it is because they do not pay the real cost of their operations.
According to the Swedbio report, there are some 207 food crops cultivated in the rotational farming system used by Hin Lad Nai. That’s why they don’t have to do cashcropping and why they prohibit chemicals in the area,” Trakansuphakon tells Food Tank. They earn income from forest products and beekeeping.
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