Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Instead of growing rice in flooded paddies to prevent weeds from overtaking the crop, SRI farmers treat rice like a vegetable, irrigating it as needed and using other weed control methods. Opala says plantation owners were willing to pay higher prices for dragging these expert farmers across the Atlantic into North American slavery.

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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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Agric4profits

AUGUST 23, 2024

The foundation of tree crop production is the nursery practices and management. The performance of the orchard or the plantation depends on the quality of prep

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

“We could drastically reduce some of the land that we’re using for things like oil crops, if we were making these in a factory and not using land at all,” says Steven Davis, PhD, Earth System scientist and lead author on the paper. The amount of land used globally to grow oil crops has increased dramatically in the last several decades.

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AGRIVI

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Farming coffee is one of the most labor-intensive crop production businesses than other types of major food crops. Beans must be picked, processed, dried, and roasted on a coffee plantation in order to maintain their full quality. This is her story of digital transformation. appeared first on AGRIVI.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 9, 2024

Much more than just a crop, corn has been a fundamental part of Mexican life since time immemorial, with the Mayan sacred text the Popol Vuh relating that the creator gods Tepeu and Gucumatz formed the first human beings from maíz , as corn is known in Spanish. A kaleidoscope of native corn varieties, plus colorful beans in a range of shades.

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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. The first Europeans who reached the Americas were shocked at the abundant food crops they found. This story was originally published by The Conversation.

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Photo: Jasmine Pankratz) Once home to large-scale plantations and ranches that dominated the landscape for more than 160 years, the steep and steady decline of Hawaiian agriculture has left fields and pastures idle by thousands of acres, often in close proximity to residential development. The sugar industry soon dominated the island economy.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 23, 2023

Lahaina, the former capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom , was once a thriving, ecologically diverse landscape full of fish ponds and diverse crops that included sweet potatoes, kalo (taro), and ‘ulu (breadfruit). As these maps of historic sugarcane lands and pineapple lands illustrate, the two crops covered vast portions of West Maui.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Perennial Crops Boost Biodiversity Both On and Off Farms. Above and belowground, perennial crops including wheat, grasses, trees, and more provide habitat and nutrition to creatures that help make ecosystems whole. The group is working to adapt more food crops to the changing climate. farm landscape. Researchers Explain How.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Enlisting a staff of 16 and an army of volunteers, the organization cultivates the crop in knee-deep water diverted from Heʻeia stream. 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.

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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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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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Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

Gilbert (Forthcoming March 2024) Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming the Land tells the story of a group of Indonesian agricultural workers who started a movement when they began occupying an agribusiness plantation near their homes. Author David E. But she retains memories of her mothers kitchen.

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Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

But the crop-free plantings have had another effect, Farquhar explained. Additionally, the diversity of Farquhar’s crops and the chemical-free nature of his farm also attracted and supported small mammals, he said. “We For example, bats are voracious predators of insects that damage crops. farmers $3.7 billion annually.

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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. Certain farming practices and crop varieties can help farms adapt to the erratic, intensified weather patterns and disasters shaking the foundation of U.S. Take chocolate , for instance.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 22, 2024

Community gardens like Baltimore’s Plantation Park Heights Urban Farm provide a wide range of benefits to the community, including providing fresh produce in areas with few places to buy fresh fruits and vegetables and having a positive impact on young people’s lives. Our study, published Jan.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 18, 2023

So, once a plantation becomes infected, you can’t grow those kinds of bananas there anymore. The crop needs to be grown somewhere else. There’s no treatment for it except for maybe flooding the plantation. You mention fruit and nut trees, row crops, frogs and salamanders. Why is that?

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Civil Eats

MAY 21, 2024

Coffee plants usually take three to four years to produce their first yield, making the crop a gamble at startup, but rising global demand may provide the incentive. Coffee worldwide is increasingly grown alongside other crops, such as avocados, plantains, cacao, sugarcane, nuts, citrus, and spices. Mexico has nearly 1.5

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Rows of crops lead up to a plant nursery at Grow Dat Youth Farm in New Orleans. They learn how it’s on land called Bulbancha by Indigenous people from the region, how it used to be a plantation and then, once it became a park, how it was white-only until 1958. Photography by Drew Costley/Verite News. Honestly, I was very frustrated.

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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Dorsey talking about how the cooperative was born out of changing the plantation system, but also ineffective food stamp programs. But in places where Black sharecroppers were really in need of federal food subsidies, white farmers could benefit from the crop programs and then their counties could go ahead and opt out of the food programs.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It’s threatened by climate change, by a deadly fungal disease that has devastated crops, and by risky farming practices. In Latin America, which produces around 60 percent of the world’s coffee crop, this figure could be as high as 88 percent. Coffee is under attack from all sides.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Currently, he’s looking into a research forest in central Indiana with a crop of white oak. Even though Frey might not have access to acres and acres of white oaks (tree plantations are a bit sparse in Nevada), he supports the planting and research projects, andhe talks about the issues with customers and other distillers.

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ATTRA

MARCH 19, 2024

After the slave trade, the population of the island diversified, but the production of sugar cane and other commodity-based plantations eradicated the local indigenous agriculture. This collaborative effort isn’t just about cultivating crops—it is about cultivating a sense of community, resilience, and sovereignty for the islands.

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

We must not forget that at that time the economic options for Black Americans were scarcely more than sharecropping on former plantations or brutal industrial labor in northern cities; political and social freedoms were systematically denied. Colonel Allensworth envisioned having a Black community where people would be free and independent.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

Date palm plantations and orchards cover the eastern Coachella Valley to the north. Farmers will surely fight it, as restricting fertilizer use often involves systemic changes such as reduced tillage, cover crops, and other costly practices that focus on soil health. 1 commodity for the last 64 years. What Will it Take to Spur Change?

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Prioritizing ecological integrity and community health over yield, these farmers stay profitable by diversifying their crops, producing value-added products like jams and sauces, and building community support and social capital. During the world wars, the U.K.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The crop itself is hardly new. 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. These days, the flax grown for linen is an industrial crop. The latter tended to fare better in the North.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

Guzman’s parents gave up caring for the soil and growing food that nourished them in pursuit of greater opportunities that involved growing crops for export and other people’s profit. “People like my parents, they were pushed off the land.” Those plants are like our people to us,” says Kotutwa Johnson. “We

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Civil Eats

JUNE 24, 2024

But through consolidation and dependence on a single crop, big plantations in Central America and the foreign corporations that run them have also [left a legacy of] political monoculture in the region. There’s also evidence that nutrient levels have fallen as crops are bred for the cold chain.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

—Matthew Wheeland Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land: A Social Movement Ethnography By David Gilbert Along the slopes of a volcano in Indonesia, a group of Minangkabau Indigenous agricultural workers began quietly reclaiming their land in 1993, growing cinnamon trees, chilies, eggplants, and other foods on the edges of plantations.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 29, 2025

Together, they left the plantation of Richard M. The Potawatomi shared their hunts, helped us build our first homes (dugouts), taught us how to plant crops, and gave us seeds to grow. My ancestors knew they couldn’t grow tobacco, so they learned how to cultivate crops like corn, wheat , and sorghum (milo), all without irrigation.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Power of State Policymaking The Cohort for Rural Opportunity and Prosperity (CROP)—a subset of SiX’s Agriculture and Food Systems program—currently includes elected officials from 43 states who are positioned to advance socially and ecologically responsible rural, agricultural, and food policy.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Share this This Story’s Impact 100 million global monthly unique visitors Business Insider Two of the largest palm oil plantations in Peru are located on the west side of the Ucayali River, which flows from the Andes to the Amazon. ” But the creation of the plantations came at a steep price.

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The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

The birth of an unjust agricultural system From plantations to sharecropping, since its inception the U.S. The current state of our food and faming system was born from the plantation system in the antebellum South that displaced and stole land from Indigenous nations and exploited Africans and their descendants through forced slavery.

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