Synopsis:
2.0.. agro: Small farm:
BBC 00923.txt
I've always had an interest in doing something for small farmers, Kisaalita tells me. They are my aunts and uncles, my brothers and sisters.
A small farmer with five cows produces a lot of dung, says Kisaalita. You can ferment the dung,
the small farmer could milk her cows in the evening, chill it, and then add more milk in the morning.
BBC 01170.txt
"We still have to develop the concept to apply it to small farmers and to low tech or low income areas,
impactlab_2013 00259.txt
What about the hundreds of thousands of small farmers who produce these crops now? Artemisinin is farmed by an estimated 100,000 people in Kenya, Tanzania, Vietnam and China and the vanilla plant by 200,000 in Madagascar, Mexico and beyond.
impactlab_2013 00857.txt
And second, it ignores the fact that much of the available farmland in Africa still consists of small farms that are owned by the families who farm them.
a small farmer in Malawi who often turns down work on a nearby tobacco plantation in favor of his own plot.
Multinational food broker VP Group regularly buys from about 5000 small farms near Nairobi. Thanks to text messages and the mobile Internet, it can now collect produce from the field,
In the mid-2000s, Uganda s largest cooking oil company, the Mukwano Group, rapidly enlisted 100 000 small farmers to grow sunflower seeds by using text messaging
popsci_2013 01048.txt
namely the bullying of small farmers by large agro companies like monsanto. The cross-pollination bit is the perhaps the most disturbing thing but
ScienceDaily_2013 08172.txt
and reliability were also big factors for small farmers in choosing a system for drip irrigation--an efficient means of delivering small amounts of water directly to the base of each plant.
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