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Every farm, even the scenic ones with red barns and rolling hills, is a kind of environmental crime scene, an echo of ...

Outdated farming practices also limit agricultural potential. Vietnam's rice-fish farming system, where rice and fish are ...

Sustainable agriculture takes many forms ... This system, with its reliance on monoculture, mechanization, chemical pesticides and fertilizers, biotechnology, and government subsidies, has ...

But perhaps the biggest threat to soil is intensive farming. The need to feed a growing population and drive greater efficiency has sacrificed natural balance for increased yields. Monoculture ...

Hyderabad:The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data on cropping pattern indicates rise in the acreage of paddy at the cost of ...

John Donald wound up his suckler and sheep enterprise to make way for a new dairy herd to run alongside his 200ac tillage ...

“By working with local farms, small maltsters promote less monoculture, more sustainable farming practices and closer connection to the community,” said Kurowski. Adding more crops into a ...

By Sean Mowbray Bats play a key role in maintaining the health of forest ecosystems as pollinators, seed dispersers and ...

Billions of tonnes of topsoil are lost annually due to overgrazing, pollution, and deforestation, threatening global food ...

This model of agriculture is marked by practices such as monoculture (planting the same one or two crops over a large area year after year), raising crops and livestock in isolation from each other, ...