Not only does trout farming make use of saline groundwater, it could help lower the water table and reduce groundwater's salt content. |
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The Zambians have decided to make farming the driving force in the economy. |
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It is not small food production, but large-scale factory farming, that presents a threat to our health. |
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Farmers should be encouraged to venture into allied activities like animal husbandry and nursery farming to supplement their income. |
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But the Minister, under pressure from the farming unions, failed to restrict cattle movements. |
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The biologist referred Ip to a research institution in Hainan, where he learned about pearl farming. |
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An increasing number of Maori landowners are striving to achieve economic and sustainable farming operations as kaitiaki of their land. |
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It concerned a man called Mr John White, who bought 586 hectares of farming land in Northland. |
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Animals are reared without the routine use of drugs, antibiotics and wormers common in intensive livestock farming. |
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Change is also in the air for the farming industry at the bottom of the food chain. |
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With the clearing of forests and the spread of farming, the cowbird's range expanded north and east. |
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Mr Mubanga, now a businessman and politician does cattle ranching and mixed farming on his 200 hectare farm in Chief Chimese's area in Mansa. |
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This country has banned both fur factory farming and the use of the steel-jawed leghold trap. |
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Environmentalists want Lula to push for jobs in areas like sustainable forestry and tourism rather than cattle ranching and soy farming. |
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It is a similar picture in thousands of villages across China, where population growth has meant rampant farming and wasteful irrigation. |
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The hardware stores sold spades, forks, rakes and all sorts of farming implements. |
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They are poor farmers who could never easily afford expensive chemicals used in intensive farming, going organic to boost their meagre incomes. |
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The first water-powered cotton spinning mills typically expanded production by putting out yarn to be woven by members of farming families. |
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These provinces have the best rainfall, but steep gradients and poor farming ensure that, when rains do fall, rivers run brown. |
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Sally has been organically farming the fine wool from Wensleydales in Stoodleigh, Devon, for 11 years and now has the largest flock in the world. |
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If farmers are adhering to good farming practices, as most of them are, then there will not be any substantive change. |
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Mist irrigation is additionally used for vanilla farming since it requires humidity. |
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Because field crops, like potted plants, languish when they're over-watered, proper drainage is an important aspect of successful farming. |
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Such efforts were to be pursued through the application of agroforestry, tree farming, and soil conservation technologies. |
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Eddie was held in high esteem by the farming community and his pleasant friendly smile endeared him to all. |
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He was born and brought up in Gorse Hill, and first showed his business acumen at the age of 13 when he began farming pigs in his back garden. |
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Although the food industry has been racked by crisis, Scottish ministers still favour intensive farming with chemicals. |
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A lot of farmers went out of business, some of the more marginal farming areas reverted to wilderness. |
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Mr Egan was on the cusp of a career in which he promised to be devoted to farming and agriculture. |
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Modern laver farming in Japan was established and mass production became possible. |
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Cattle farming required a more intensive cultivation of fodder crops such as maize, potatoes, turnips, and mangels. |
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The issue of Pig factory farming is going to be the biggest animal rights issue this country has seen. |
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She has also called for more tools to kick-start agricultural and small livestock farming. |
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Some of these low-lying areas, with waterlogged deposits blanketed by alluvium, have provided good evidence for Roman farming. |
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Here, yields have been increased through organic farming techniques, a much cheaper alternative to conventional agrochemicals. |
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Several Polaris ATV models are used as farming and hunting quads but they are also reliable as a fast, racy, motocross style vehicle. |
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Many worked as farmers in fields owned by the lords and their lives were controlled by the farming year. |
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Stock farming is mainly confined to sheep and goats, particularly the angora goat. |
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Our mentor in organic farming has a large small grain acreage, with some of the fields having small rocks. |
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Most people support themselves through subsistence farming, growing rice, yams, cassava, bananas, and palm oil nuts. |
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We cannot simply assume that traditional farming or contemporary agribusiness practices are good for us or for the land. |
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I never clocked off at weekends or holidays and it's the same with farming. |
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Before the twentieth century, the French-speaking Acadians in the Maritime provinces engaged in farming, fishing, and forestry. |
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Others are Aymara and Quechua Indians forced off their lands by the crisis in traditional small-scale farming. |
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They were pushed out of their accustomed habitat and almost all began farming themselves. |
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I made this lagerphone myself from an old farm artefact from early farming days. |
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Jimmy, as he was known locally, was a very highly respected member of the farming community. |
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Coming from a strong farming background he understood the setbacks as well as the good days and was always ready with a word of advice. |
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The stories of this wholesale destruction from farming folk in Cumbria once again illustrates the affinity between man, animals and land. |
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A typical farming village in this region attracts tree sparrows, black redstarts, gray partridge, skylarks, and hen harriers. |
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Draft animals, especially the ubiquitous dzo, a cross between a yak and a cow, play a central part in the farming economy. |
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In Warwick, only 75 miles away, these activities are all deemed acceptable farming uses under the zoning code. |
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But we're now seeing a reaction against mass production in the renaissance of organic farming and farmers' markets. |
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Young people spend 3-6 months learning skills such as woodwork and metal work, landscaping and general farming skills prior to graduation. |
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Mr England decided to convert the barn when the pressures on farming forced him to give up keeping pigs at his holding two years ago. |
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Far from alleviating the problem, the farming of carnivorous fish, such as salmon, adds to the pressure on wild fish populations. |
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The novel follows a farming family's fight for survival in the aftermath of the foot and mouth epidemic. |
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The director said the institute has launched a pioneer project to support the organic farming of crops, fruits, vegetables, and herbs. |
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Just take for instance, the erratic rain pattern that hit parts of the country in the last farming season. |
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It was refreshing to converse, even in my broken Spanish, about the state of Ecuadorian politics and farming. |
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A senior Government vet says North Yorkshire should be on red alert to prevent an explosion of foot and mouth in the pig farming community. |
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Klanswomen built organizations with branches everywhere from farming villages to metropolitan areas. |
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Alpaca farmers will be well recompensed for their efforts in farming these rare animals. |
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Far better, he says, to gradually withdraw subsidies and let farming find its own level in the market place. |
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The DUP, while representing the farming constituency, also lays claim to a sizeable chunk of support from working-class Protestants. |
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However, land agents in the area report that demand for farmland outstrips supply and any released in this way is immediately bought for farming. |
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Those giving up farming often retain their attachment to the land by keeping their forestry as an investment. |
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Examples of the latter are wine presses and farming innovations like the form of terracing and water systems. |
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My connection to farming can't be explained with reference to everyday Swiss life. |
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He is a Shiite Afghan by nationality who was raised in a farming community close to the Iranian border. |
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They invested in trade, in government loans, in the mineral resources of their land, as well as in improved farming and in renting out farming land. |
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Over the coming weeks, we'll be highlighting how organic farming can provide solutions to the seemingly intractable problems afflicting our food chain. |
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When confronted with food concerns, from pesticide residues to the environmental damage wreaked by salmon farming, the government doesn't want to know. |
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Kreutler and her late husband, Uli, arrived in 1979, and chose to go into farming, an occupation that might seem ordinary enough in rural Ireland. |
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The valued molluscs are fed hand-harvested kelp and some compounded seaweed diet, and are graded at regular intervals over the farming period of 36 to 40 months. |
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The lectures have featured such topics as the effect of temperature on chocolate, browning foods, and the ecology of farming. |
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We believe that it's important to keep farming alive in the state, and agritainment is one way we can show the public why our goal is so important. |
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They were farming people who worked the land and tended to the livestock. |
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Its sustainability is unmatched by any cereal, even maize, and for exactly that reason a number of traditional farming systems cultivate maize and yam bean together. |
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Modern farming practices that involve growing trees and rearing animals and other forms of agricultural practices at the same time should be encouraged. |
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Tracts set aside for game reserves could not be used for farming. |
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It needs Flash and sound to get the full effect, but underneath the excellent animation is a great site concerned with factory farming and local food production. |
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Sally has been organically farming the fine wool from Wensleydale sheep in Stoodleigh, Devon, for 11 years and now has the largest flock in the world. |
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Organic farming has many benefits to the environment since it prevents soil and water contamination by chemicals which reduce soil fertility and increase acidity. |
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Organic farming requires the farmer to be a better farmer, a more observant farmer, a farmer who practices careful agronomy and conscientious animal husbandry. |
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Today, in the name of progress, we have faceless interstate highways, clear-cut logging, and industrial farming. |
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Richard, who comes from a Cornish farming family, qualified as a solicitor in 1999 and has experience in property and lettings, farm restructuring and commercial contracts. |
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Richard Joseph, a senior zookeeper and wildlife conservationist, said the exchange of animals was part of the society's thrust to promote wildlife farming locally. |
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Items to be covered include options in crop sequences, wheat breeding directions, tramline farming, potential for durum wheats, lupins and various pests and their control. |
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It might be, if the claimants have pastoral or farming skills and can reasonably be expected to build productive enterprises on that land if given half a chance. |
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This is contributing to the farming crisis, and deaths from starvation are likely to increase massively because farmers are too weak to plant or reap their crops. |
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Two-thirds of the 22 million people in West Africa depend on farming to live. |
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Although anciently used for fishing and farming by the Abenaki natives and home to Ethan Allen in the 1780s, in the early 20th century this area was used as a municipal dump. |
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Data from organic farming, appropriate technology, agroforestry, soil science, aquaculture, and a dozen other disciplines all support the techniques organized by permaculture. |
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Research by the Mammals Trust UK has found that as intensive farming drives species from their traditional homes, many are adapting to an urban lifestyle. |
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He'd never really thought of himself as a soldier or an ex-soldier even though he'd had two years of it before eventually going farming on rehab money. |
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There will always be an important role for subsidies in farming, to remunerate farmers for environmental services and to assist farming in particularly marginal areas. |
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Livestock farmers claim that calling a vet to livestock only happens in extreme emergencies anyway, because of the financial restraints on farming. |
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Rural and farming life also received more attention, in situ. |
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The trials compared the effects on the environment of weedkillers used in GM farming with those of herbicides used to spray the conventional versions of the same crops. |
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He also broke the landlocked salmon story in 1995, tracing the cause of their near-extinction to the planting of apple trees and over-intensive farming. |
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Bad farming practices, soil erosion, water abstraction, and the building of dam walls that prevent its upstream spawning migration are just some of the threats it faces. |
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Modern farming generates a significant amount of waste such as fertiliser bags, silage wrapping, barrels, scrap metal fencing wire drums and strings from bales. |
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Even when bred in captivity, Leahy said breeding facilities are often horrendous, resembling factory farming. |
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The year 2000 started out full of hope for all of us but, sadly, during the course of the past year for the farming community many of those hopes have already been dashed. |
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They lend themselves to biodiverse agriculture as well as to agroforestry, a style of tree farming that promotes diversity. |
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They will concentrate instead on farming their 1,900 acres of alfalfa, 1,600 acres of corn, and 1,400 acres of soybeans. |
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We think of it like bricklaying, farming, or any other seemingly menial skill. |
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They are described as the British farming industry's most high-profile shop window, and with such a variety of goods on offer, window shopping has never been so tempting. |
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Agriculture is primarily subsistence farming and animal husbandry. |
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Malcolm Jones goes to the Oklahoma State Fair with a farming family who tell him how they get through the dry spell. |
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She has jollied people along when they needed it, but has also been a good face and voice in the media for the needs of the farming and rural community. |
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During the day, shops were open and the relatively simple, bucolic life of a farming village seemed to go on normally. |
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You will, by accident listening to the show, become an expert-not-really in matters of arable farming, organic crops, and milking. |
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The rest of the Fenland was dedicated to pastoral farming, fishing, fowling and the harvesting of reeds or sedge for thatch. |
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In the United Kingdom, the town of Whitstable is noted for oyster farming from beds on the Kentish Flats that have been used since Roman times. |
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Then there are the changes in habitats brought on by alterations in farming practices, tourism, pollution, fragmentation and climate change. |
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In addition, it can wrap around the farming structures, requiring additional maintenance. |
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Lindisfarne was mainly a fishing community for many years, with farming and the production of lime also of some importance. |
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Fish farming involves raising fish commercially in tanks or enclosed pools, usually for food. |
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Fish farming offers an alternative solution to the increasing market demand for fish and fish protein. |
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The farming communities faced food shortages that year by losing their grain and livestock. |
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By about 3500 BC, hundreds of small farming villages dotted the Indus floodplain. |
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The Mandan survived by hunting, farming and gathering wild plants, though some food came from trade. |
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By the outbreak of the First World War, this was among North America's richest farming regions. |
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There has been a growing concern about farming as the current farmers are aging with a difficult time finding successors. |
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During the Roman era roads and ports were constructed throughout the county and farming was widespread. |
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However, populations have been declining in mainland Europe since the 1960s, at least partly due to changes in farming practices. |
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The sika deer inhabits temperate and subtropical woodlands, which often occupy areas suitable for farming and other human exploitation. |
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Mushroom farming and mushroom gathering are large industries in many countries. |
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Hesiod's Works and Days, a didactic poem about farming life, also includes the myths of Prometheus, Pandora, and the Five Ages. |
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Although some societies depended heavily on agriculture, others practiced a mix of farming, hunting, and gathering. |
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Natives of North America began practicing farming approximately 4,000 years ago, late in the Archaic period of North American cultures. |
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The Pipil had no precious mineral resources, but they did have rich and fertile land that was good for farming. |
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They were given food, clothing, housing and taught farming or household skills. |
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Due to its popularity as a food fish, Atlantic halibut has attracted investment in fish farming. |
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In 1805, Canadian colonists observed First Nations peoples engaged in farming activity along the Red River. |
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Poultry farming and falconry were practised from early times in many parts of the world. |
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Human societies from the Paleolithic to the early Neolithic farming tribes lived without states and organized governments. |
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Paleolithic peoples suffered less famine and malnutrition than the Neolithic farming tribes that followed them. |
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The economy of the area is largely agricultural and rural with farming using most of the land area. |
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It is a common ingredient as a source of potassium in organic gardening and farming fertilisers. |
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Over the next 200 years Dorset's population grew substantially and additional land was enclosed for farming to provide the extra food required. |
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Other species used in commercial dairy farming include goats, sheep, and camels. |
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Dairy farming is also an important industry in Florida, Minnesota, Ohio and Vermont. |
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The service sector is the largest sector in the economy, followed by manufacturing and construction and then farming and raw material extraction. |
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In contrast dairy farming increased, with the number of dairy cows doubling between 1990 and 2007, to become New Zealand's largest export earner. |
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In traditional farming, the two are often combined even on small landholdings, leading to the term agroforestry. |
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This type of farming is practiced mainly in areas with abundant rainfall where the forest regenerates quickly. |
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Subsistence farming is practiced to satisfy family or local needs alone, with little left over for transport elsewhere. |
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The growth of organic farming has renewed research in alternative technologies such as integrated pest management and selective breeding. |
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The diversity of the sources ranges from the production of farming tools to the transport of harvested produce. |
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Almost all the industrial machines used in modern farming are powered by fossil fuels. |
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Local farming suffered a decline over the past century due to large amounts of farm subsidies. |
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Some major organizations are hailing farming within agroecosystems as the way forward for mainstream agriculture. |
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Technological advancements help provide farmers with tools and resources to make farming more sustainable. |
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Fish farming is the principal form of aquaculture, while other methods may fall under mariculture. |
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The expansion of fish farming as well as animal welfare concerns in society has led to research into more humane and faster ways of killing fish. |
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The Little Karoo is historically, and still, famous for its ostrich farming around the town of Oudtshoorn. |
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The Balkan region was the first area in Europe to experience the arrival of farming cultures in the Neolithic era. |
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Burial items included pottery, jewelry, farming and hunting equipment, and assorted foods including dried meat and fruit. |
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Due to its gentle local climate and fertile soil, it is the state's largest area of fruit farming, its chief produce being apples. |
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However, this view was modified, as some evidence of sedentary farming emerged. |
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Their settlements had up to 15,000 inhabitants, making them among the first large farming communities in the world. |
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An equally important reform was the abolition of private tax farming, which was replaced by salaried civil service tax collectors. |
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Sheltered valleys in the Atlas Mountains, the Nile Valley and Delta, and the Mediterranean coast are the main sources of fertile farming land. |
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In these systems, the enslaved people had little power, however, they did have some influence on farming methods. |
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Nevertheless, they too have been reduced by hunting and loss of habitat to farming. |
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English laws were changed to benefit the navy, but had commercial implications in terms of farming. |
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He redistributed land, founded agricultural schools to improve farming techniques, and took a personal interest in the expansion of exports. |
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It began to develop infrastructure and farming, and maintained this German colony until 1915, when South African forces defeated its military. |
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It is an important tourism and farming region of the Western Cape Province. |
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Small scale seasonal farming became widespread, and mines began to exploit abundant reserves of lead, copper, zinc, iron, and coal. |
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Animal farming is of secondary importance, but its role is gradually increasing. |
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Today, the main economic activities are fishing, natural gas and oil extraction, sheep farming, and ecotourism. |
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Since 1997, the island has been the site of a substantial pearl farming operation owned by the Australian company Atlas Pacific. |
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The majority of the forests on Manus still remain, but some of the smaller islands have been cleared for coconut farming. |
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Pineapples were grown until 1895, when freezing weather wiped out crops and ended commercial farming. |
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Over the East presides the Red Tezcatlipoca, Xipe Totec, the god of gold, farming and springtime. |
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The communities around the Minas Basin were sustained by fishing, logging, farming, mining, boat building and shipbuilding. |
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It is generally hilly, with thin, stony clay soils, and contains few areas suitable for farming. |
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Due to the changing economics of farming, much of the land is now reforested in Loblolly pine for the lumber industry. |
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Oregon's diverse landscapes provide ideal environments for various types of farming. |
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Many people on Espiritu Santo still rely on subsistence farming for their food. |
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The Mohe practiced pig farming extensively and were mainly sedentary, and also used both pig and dog skins for coats. |
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Their farming way of life was very different from the pastoral nomadism of the Mongols and the Khitans on the steppes. |
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Their primary mode of production was farming while they lived in villages, forts, and walled towns. |
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The town is largely reliant on farming of reindeer, hunting for pelts, and fishing. |
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For example, to synchronise ovulation of the cattle to benefit dairy farming. |
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Over the last fifty years, dairy farming has become more intensive to increase the yield of milk produced by each cow. |
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Farmers exploit flocking behavior to keep sheep together on unfenced pastures such as hill farming, and to move them more easily. |
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They do not require expensive housing, such as that used in the intensive farming of chickens or pigs. |
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Modern farming techniques in developed countries usually rely on dense planting, which produces one ear per stalk. |
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In Zambia, it often offers loans for seed and expenses to the 180,000 small farmers who grow cotton for it, as well as advice on farming methods. |
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Cassava accounts for a daily caloric intake of 30 percent in Ghana and is grown by nearly every farming family. |
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The numbers involved in farming have been declining for many years and many of the seasonal workers are now eastern Europeans. |
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The main economic activities of Central Africa are farming, herding and fishing. |
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Shifts in the agriculture economy from tobacco to mixed farming created less need for slaves' labor. |
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This division was related to the state's pattern of farming, plantations and slaveholding. |
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Zimbabwe's commercial farming sector was traditionally a source of exports and foreign exchange, and provided 400,000 jobs. |
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Kosygin's reforms on agriculture gave considerable autonomy to the collective farms, giving them the right to the contents of private farming. |
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Then, if this business does not work, he can get a new contract with the village committee and return to farming. |
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At the same time, the farmer has some flexibility to decide to leave farming for other ventures and to return at a later time. |
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Advances were made in irrigation and farming, using new technology such as the windmill. |
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There is evidence that early hunters and, later, farming communities occupied the site. |
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One important change in farming methods was the move in crop rotation to turnips and clover in place of fallow. |
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The British Agricultural Revolution was the result of the complex interaction of social, economic and farming technology changes. |
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To be successful, farmers had to become effective managers who incorporated the latest farming innovations in order to be low cost producers. |
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As farming developed, grain agriculture became more sophisticated and prompted a division of labour to store food between growing seasons. |
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He probably used bar iron from the Forest of Dean, where he was a partner in farming the King's ironworks in two periods. |
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They spread swiftly among the farming community, threatening the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of farmworkers. |
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Children often begin to actively participate in activities such as child rearing, hunting and farming as soon as they are competent. |
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Some 60 percent of the child labour was involved in agricultural activities such as farming, dairy, fisheries and forestry. |
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The ships and boats of the fleet would explore the coast of Australia by sailing all around it looking for suitable farming land and resources. |
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Samuel Slater was born in Belper, Derbyshire, England, on June 9, 1768, the fifth son of a farming family of eight children. |
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Land to the south and west were part of Greenwich Hospital's forestry and farming estates until the 19th century. |
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Now the mainstay of the economy is tourism, together with some bulb farming. |
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Coniston's location thus developed as a farming village and transport hub, serving these areas. |
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Coniston grew as both a farming village, and to serve local copper and slate mines. |
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Traditionally a farming village, Lindale's proximity to the A590 road has seen a growth in the number of commuters who live there. |
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The land in Little Langdale is now mainly used for sheep and cattle farming, although until 1940 at least some of the farmland was ploughed. |
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Those who agree to maintain their land in accordance with sustainable farming practices also receive additional subsidies. |
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The conditions of dairy farming in the USA suited the ensiling of green corn fodder, and was soon adopted by New England farmers. |
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The Neolithic period was a time of settlement on the land, and the development of farming on a large scale. |
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Potter was interested in preserving not only the Herdwick sheep, but also the way of life of fell farming. |
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The primary agricultural use of the Cheshire Plain is dairy farming, creating the general appearance of enclosed hedgerow fields. |
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The former forest area now encloses some twenty farms, on which dairy farming is the principal enterprise. |
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Some crop farming also took place, most notably during the warm periods of the 13th century. |
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These were overrun by Danes initially before they too settled to farming near Burnsall and Thorpe. |
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Upper Wharfedale has been traditionally associated with farming, but there has been a change in the numbers and types of employment. |
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Sedbergh's main industries for many years were farming and the production of woollen garments. |
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This left behind a legacy of fine agricultural soil and created a booming farming industry. |
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In more humid regions, pasture grazing is managed across a large global area for free range and organic farming. |
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Some groups could easily plant their crops in open fields along river valleys, but others had forests blocking their farming land. |
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This happens particularly as population densities increase, and as a result farming becomes more intensively practiced. |
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There is little or no arable farming within the moor, mostly being given over to livestock farming on account of the thin and rocky soil. |
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Shrimp farming is in its infancy in Africa. but Asia has most of the world's shrimp farms. |
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These plant protection products are currently used in various crops worldwide and the two spinosyns are also authorized for organic farming. |
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Davao hosted many of the first Japanese migrants to the Philippines 110 years ago, who engaged in abaca farming. |
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For years, anthropologists and archaeologists blamed the abandonments on reduced rainfall that made farming impossible in the region. |
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The insurgents in Zengibar took control of everything that people owned in the city including water engines used for farming, Abdullah said. |
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The wetland destruction was related to the conversion of the property to prepare it for blueberry farming. |
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Sure, it's got about as much to do with farming as a Chelsea tractor but who needs whiffy reality when the fantasy is so fragrant? |
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Hydroponics and a related technology called aeroponics use 70 percent to 95 percent less water than conventional farming does. |
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The site has been untouched by intensive farming methods for decades and is home to choughs, pied flycatchers, willow warblers and otters. |
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The Hungarian agriculture minister, for his part, said that Iran enjoys many capabilities in the farming and agricultur products sectors. |
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The quahaug fishery of Massachusetts, including the natural history of the quahog and a discussion of quahog farming. |
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The local economy is still reliant today on farming and tourism, with light industrial facilities servicing local needs. |
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To the west, the main settlements of Kirkby and Broughton are dominated by farming and commuting. |
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Mr. Philpott was first exposed to farming when he traveled around Italy and stayed at agriturismos. |
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Recently, however, a system of fish and prawn farming has been developed in specially designed brackishwater ponds. |
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However, most major salmon farming areas have observed resistance to common chemotherapeutants. |
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You heard of gold farming? Selling multiplayer online game currency for real cash? |
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The gold farming industry turns one man's play into another's work, but most gaming workers see a clear difference between work and play. |
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Cricket is generally thought to have been developed in the early medieval period among the farming and metalworking communities of the Weald. |
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The largest industry is tourism, but the island also has a strong agricultural heritage, including sheep and dairy farming and arable crops. |
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The diet consisted mainly of the products of farming and husbandry and was supplied by hunting to a very modest extent. |
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Stroganovs developed farming, hunting, saltworks, fishing, and ore mining on the Urals and established trade with Siberian tribes. |
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Industrial technologies that affected farming included the seed drill, the Dutch plough, which contained iron parts, and the threshing machine. |
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Farming, and in particular sheep farming, has been the major industry in the region since Roman times. |
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Sheep farming remains important both for the economy of the region and for preserving the landscape which visitors want to see. |
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Features such as dry stone walls, for example, are there as a result of sheep farming. |
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The main economic activities include sheep farming, quarrying, finance and tourism. |
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The prehistoric settlers began clearing the forest, and established the first farming communities. |
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From York to Durham, crops, domestic animals, and farming tools were scorched. |
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In Canada, commercial bison farming began in the mid 1980s, concerning an unknown number of animals then. |
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This evidence suggests that figs were the first cultivated crop and mark the invention of the technology of farming. |
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Agricultural life afforded securities that pastoral life could not, and sedentary farming populations grew faster than nomadic. |
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Proponents of permaculture claim that it is the only way of farming that can be maintained when fossil fuel runs out. |
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Chisel plows are becoming more popular as a primary tillage tool in row crop farming areas. |
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The new tax should have helped the farming community. But in practice farmers generally appear to be worse off than before. |
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It also abolished the highly inefficient system of tax farming, whereby private individuals would collect taxes for a hefty fee. |
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Limestone is also found in the region, at the Cotswolds, Quantock Hills and Mendip Hills, where they support sheep farming. |
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During the Middle Ages sheep farming for the wool trade came to dominate the economy of Exmoor. |
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The predominant type of farming on the Downs is arable farming and this increased greatly during the twentieth century. |
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Tourism and agriculture, especially dairy farming, play a significant role in the economy. |
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While harsh, the land allowed for a pastoral farming life familiar to the Norse. |
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During the Middle Ages, sheep farming for the wool trade came to dominate the economy. |
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Like Scotland, Northern farming was traditionally dominated by oats, which grow better than wheat in poor soil. |
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The Republic had no fixed bureaucracy, and collected taxes through the practice of tax farming. |
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Other primary industries that have declined since the 1960s include china clay production, fishing and farming. |
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Typical areas include apprenticeships and other vocational qualifications in many disciplines, such as childcare, farming, retail, and tourism. |
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Technological change in the farming industry significantly affected the popularity of thatching. |
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In some parts of the world, they are still used for practical purposes such as farming. |
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Images of farming included both men and women to show that during harvest time all available labour was required. |
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From 1773 until 1796, George Austen supplemented this income by farming and by teaching three or four boys at a time, who boarded at his home. |
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The economy is predominantly rural and relies chiefly on subsistence farming. |
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The traditional sports were mainly played after the harvest seasons to celebrate the harvests and finish the farming seasons. |
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Nevertheless, the almost total dependence on fishing and fish farming means that the economy remains vulnerable. |
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About 4,000 BC, the Neolithic Revolution reached Britain and Ireland, with domestication of animals, arable farming and pottery. |
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As was normal at the time, subsistence farming was the occupation of most people. |
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He reports that warfare and the farming culture were sometimes incompatible. |
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In England and Wales the term is also used for the process that ended the ancient system of arable farming in open fields. |
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Enclosed land was under control of the farmer who was free to adopt better farming practices. |
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Whereas earlier land had been enclosed in order to make it available for sheep farming, by 1650 the steep rise in wool prices had come to an end. |
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There are many areas devoted to mixed farming reflecting the nature of the topography of South Wales. |
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Dairying is still undertaken in the coastal areas such as the Gower and Vale of Glamorgan where there is also some arable farming production. |
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The region is sparsely populated, with an economy dependent on farming and small businesses. |
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Much of Anglesey is used for relatively intensive cattle and sheep farming. |
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Blanket bogs formed on sites where Neolithic farmers cleared trees for farming. |
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