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. Once the coffee has been picked, processing must begin as quickly as possible to prevent fruit spoilage.

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World Agri-Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

For its part, Checkplant, which operates in key areas for Brazilian agriculture, such as Mato Grosso, Bahia, Paran and Goias, has a significant track record and portfolio of large farms among its customers, covering 50% of the total area of cotton plantations and 11% of the total area of soybean plantations in Brazil.

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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. This story was originally published by The Conversation.

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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. Editors Jia-Chen Fu, Michelle T. King, and Jakob A.

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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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Far Eastern Agriculture

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Leading provider of professional Near-Infrared (NIR) analysis products and services, IAT (Singapore) Technology Pte. 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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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

AUGUST 23, 2023

As workers slowly gained rights, profits plummeted, and Brazil and India became competitors of cheap sugar production. Which then, of course, becomes very ironic in terms of how the plantations then [put] a horrible, detrimental end to our soil quality. Chinese contract laborers on a sugar plantation in 19th century Hawaii.

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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

In addition to supplying the community with fresh corms and spinach-like leaves high in calcium and fiber, an on-site kitchen churns out value-added products such as poi, or taro pounded into a starchy staple, and kulolo, a traditional pudding sweetened with coconut milk and raw sugar.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Large plantations reemerged in the Delta, worked by sharecroppers rather than slaves. In 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Its no accident that blues music, the Deltas best-known product, emerged in this region, according to historian John C.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 9, 2024

The aim of the fair is to strengthen and maintain the biodiversity of the region’s gardens, milpas , coffee plantations and cacao plantations,” said Martínez in an interview a few days after the most recent edition of the fair, which he helped fundraise. It makes us happy to be able to offer the products that we grow.”

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Civil Eats

MAY 21, 2024

Sometimes, the coffee is picked, but heavy rains wash out the roads, and farmers can’t get their product to market. With increasingly tight margins, farm owners can’t afford the upgrades needed to make their coffee production more water-efficient, and they can’t buy new cultivars that resist coffee rust and heat.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Flax fibers are used to make products ranging from twine to banknotes. In North America, linen production is all but nonexistent, save for one very small mill in Nova Scotia, Canada. Pockets of linen production persisted for a while, but by the middle of the 20th century, even those were gone.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 29, 2023

With their new map, the Lab hopes to critically interrogate agricultural practices and unpack the carceral consequences and conditions surrounding food, animal, and plant production in prisons. Plantation labor has never truly disappeared, Smith asserts.

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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.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Bourbon production overall in the state has increased 475 percent since 1999. Mattingly is testing for vigor, bolting, acorn production and elements important to a barrel manufacturer: tannins and taste. million barrels in 2021. That’s tens of millions of board-feet of lumber used every year.

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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. If there are more people engaged in production of ancestral foods, they actually begin to consume those foods again,” said Honn about the Jurana communities. Take chocolate , for instance.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

In the meantime, rising global temperatures are exacerbating threats to production. There’s no doubt about it that coffee production has been a cause of massive deforestation,” Davis said. Despite accounting for over 60 percent of global coffee production, arabica is a delicate crop.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

food production in profound ways: “If you think about why we had a plantation system, and why we now have a system that still looks a lot like that, you could argue that it’s not because it’s the most productive way to produce food, but it is a very effective way to produce racial hierarchy.”

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DTN

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

CME Group’s Paul Wightman, senior director of Research and Product Development, and Elizabeth Hui, director of Energy Research, in June highlighted the growing use of RBOB futures by European refiners and trading houses in their paper, “RBOB Gasoline to Expand Reach from EU Green Policy Changes in Gasoline.” Converting ethanol tonnes to U.S.

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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. The original inhabitants of the island are of Taino descent, and they had a strong background in sustainable indigenous agriculture.

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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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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

On my own farm this period is remembered by a 25-acre Scots pine plantation which was naturally regenerated on land that had previously grown wheat. Food production was at a premium, tractors appeared, and labour started to disappear from the farming scene. There is a chronic lack of information on low-cost production systems.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

A gap year of just travelling didn’t feel right, so he took a job on a palm oil plantation in Papua New Guinea. The butchers cut and portion the meat, cure bacon, prepare sausages, burger patties and other products. He always knew that eventually he would return to Essington Farm, but first he wanted to see a bit more of the world.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

Date palm plantations and orchards cover the eastern Coachella Valley to the north. Of the almost 540,000 acres in production in Imperial County, less than 10 percent, or just under 46,000, are organic. 1 commodity for the last 64 years. “That would result in the biggest improvement in air quality in my opinion,” says Withycombe.

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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. The fictional banana company’s power is so vast that it can bend history and memory—and murder its workers with impunity. Still today, many of the largest U.S.

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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. Swiftly, an era of CAFOs began in poultry production, which still reigns today. And she could.

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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. For perishable products, the mantra in the American food system is “the cold chain, the cold chain, the cold chain.” If the U.S.

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The Equation

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Origins of exploitation in the food system As noted in my previous blog about the longstanding racial injustice in the agricultural system, the United States was born from the plantation system of the antebellum South, rooted in the oppression and exploitation of Africans and their descendants through forced slavery.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

She has a group for Black urban gardeners , and it’s an enormous group that’s bringing people back to the land in real and productive ways. He is inferring that the plantation. is something to be reclaimed. I had frankly not ever thought about that, and I felt challenged by that notion.

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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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The Equation

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Origins of exploitation in the food system As noted in my previous blog about the longstanding racial injustice in the agricultural system, the United States was born from the plantation system of the antebellum South, rooted in the oppression and exploitation of Africans and their descendants through forced slavery.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 29, 2025

weve seen a much-needed push toward regenerative and sustainable agriculture to protect the environment and keep farms productive, particularly in the face of climate change. Together, they left the plantation of Richard M. In the U.S., Johnson, who was vice president under President Martin Van Buren.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

DepartmentofAgriculture (USDA) the last plantation and have advocatedforincreased supportforBlack, Indigenous, Latinx and Asian farmers. We have evolved from a movement that finds its power in individual consumption and voting with your fork to one that understands the link between food apartheid and diet-related health disparities.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 26, 2024

In Brazil, a Powerful Law Protects Biodiversity and Blocks Corporate Piracy The countrys genetic heritage law aims to compensate Indigenous peoples for their knowledge of the plants and seeds that many US food and agribusiness companies use to develop profitable products. Land access was the first step.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Built to serve “a massive, complex, and incredibly productive and efficient food system,” its presence, she adds, is unyielding. Context is everything,” says Hawaii State Representative Amy Perruso, whose state’s plantation history has resulted in a distinct political and agricultural landscape.

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