One of their recent clinics is in Salinas, CA (a farming community) and caters to farm workers .
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For all but a few agrarian countries heavily dependent on tobacco farming (such as Zimbabwe and Malawi), a drop in demand for tobacco would not lead to massive job losses, according to the bank.
Their reluctance has been put down to ignorance (farmers do not appreciate the benefits of fertiliser until they have tried it), timidity (they are wary of upfront commitments of money and prefer farming that delivers a reliable, even if low, return) or illiquidity (farmers cannot get the credit they need to afford seeds and fertiliser).
His first moves were to allow private farming (result: a major increase in productivity) and to create special economic zones that would allow private business and even foreign investment.
"When it comes to negotiations we fear no one, " Tsvangirai said Saturday, speaking to a crowd in Marondera, a farming town about 70 kilometers (43 miles) east of the capital, Harare.
And recently, researchers in aquaculture (fish farming) have discovered that cottonseed meal makes a high-quality fish food.18 Catfish, in particular, appear to love cottonseed meal, and will eat it even when offered fish meal instead.
The fact is, what people pursue in farming (which again is only a small part of the Diablo playerbase) is the path of least resistance, the greatest throughput.
Yet, according to the World Bank, it has provided a bulwark against flooding for buildings and crops, a huge expansion of farming and Nile navigation (lots of tourism) and enough electricity for the whole of Egypt all of which amounts to the equivalent each year of 2% of GDP in net benefits.
Roughly 85% of all furs start out as farmed animals on unmarked plots of land, often to avoid the attention of animal rights activists. (Farming started as a U.S. practice in the 19th century.) Ranchers, most of them in northern Europe and North America, breed mink, foxes and chinchillas for consistency of color and texture.
Worst of all is Pollack's unprofessional decision to quote Charles Benbrook, a paid advocate of organic food and farming (both of which specifically reject genetic engineering).
The Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RABI), which provides charitable grants to farming families, said it had seen a rise in emergency payments and in the number of calls to its helpline.
The anti-GMO faction is a branch of the organic farming movement, the roots of which can be traced back to Rudolf Steiner (a certified lunatic), et al. Mae-Wan Ho and Joe Cummins are just the latest in a series of people who are convinced that genetic modification is evil, and they build their case around that concept.
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All those kids in inner cities and small farm towns, the rolling hills of Virginia, the valleys of Ohio, right here in Dubuque -- kids dreaming of becoming scientists or doctors, or engineers or entrepreneurs, following the family tradition of farming the land, maybe becoming a diplomat, maybe becoming a President -- (applause) -- starting a business -- they need champions in Washington, because they don't have lobbyists.
Then came construction, banking and securities broking in the 1980s, followed by overseas expansion (from prawn farming in Australia to a seafood-processing factory in Alaska in the early 1990s) and, finally, financial services.
For its part, in May the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) will present the results of a two-year project to promote the farming-for-consumption of some 2.000 edible insect species.
But, unable to persuade others of the case for an overhaul of farming (there had been a deal to reform the sector in 2002 and others refused to accept another one), he ended up cutting aid to poor member states in order not to reduce Britain's rebate even more.
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The bill, however, would have provided the White House with more flexibility to administer the reductions (read: more to farming, less to developing the Killbot 2.0) The bill was rejected by a 62-38 vote, with nine Republicans voting against their own party.
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