Some industries such as banking are fairly well along in making computer systems year-2000 compliant, but others, including food processing, agriculture and farming, some government services, construction, law, and medical practice are lagging, Marcoccio said.
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"There are a lot of people working in agriculture and the farming community and they rely on their phones for business, " she said.
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The UN blames the massive migrations from rural areas either on population growth that the countryside cannot sustain or on economic prescriptions said to emphasize commercial agriculture over small farming, thus driving the poor off the land.
Promote large-scale agriculture and corporate farming.
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About 30% of the Romanian workforce is still dependent on agriculture, and subsistence farming barely pays the bills.
The unseasonably wintry weather has caused problems in parts of the UK, including with electricity, farming and agriculture, and the road network.
These allegations all of which are either demonstrably untrue or exaggerations of problems that are present in all of agriculture (including organic farming) are the currency of such groups as the Environmental Working Group and the Union of Concerned Scientists, which make no pretense of their ideological rather than scientific opposition to GMOs.
At the other end of the spectrum, two-thirds of the companies in food processing, government services, farming or agriculture, health care and education, and half of the companies in chemical processing or manufacturing, construction, the oil industry, power, gas and water utilities, and the legal industry are expected to have one major mission-critical failure owing to year-2000 problems.
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Around 60% of methane released into the atmosphere comes from human activities such as farming, rice agriculture, fossil fuel exploitation, landfill and biomass burning, according to the WMO.
Indeed, one would think people working in Agriculture would tend to be experts in farming or crop management, not health sciences.
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In the 14 countries that depend most on farming, public spending on agriculture almost halved as a share of total public spending between 1980 and 2004.
Wednesday, for example, a House Agriculture subcommittee took up the topic of organic farming in the Bush package.
This tremendous wealth stems from the village's decision to basically abandon agriculture for industry, building factories on the farming land.
When he graduated from Michigan State University in 1954, Eli Broad recalls the East Lansing campus was focused on agriculture and engineering and set in a sleepy farming community.
Suddenly society was faced with dramatically reduced amounts of hydrocarbon energy, and the result was a fundamental reorganization of food production, leading to a boom in urban organic agriculture, which requires fewer inputs than conventional farming.
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Miranda ranks high among Venezuelan states in agricultural and pastoral production, and government irrigation projects have resulted in the expansion of its large-scale farming and in the diversification of its agriculture.
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Productivity improvements in farming caused the same thing to happen in agriculture over the past century.
That authority was transferred, with the support of the farming lobby, to the Ohio Department of Agriculture.
North Carolina's agriculture commissioner says the state has lost 600, 000 farming acres and 6, 000 farms since 2002, making it the nation's leader in farm loss.
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Condit, who served in Congress until 2003, currently serves on the board of directors of the Phoenix Institute of Desert Agriculture, a non-profit group that promotes sustainable farming.
The assessment argues that modest outlays on rain-fed agriculture, in particular, could drastically improve the productivity of farming in poor countries and so help both to raise farmers' incomes and also to cut the need for an expansion of agriculture elsewhere.
Agriculture is now the island's main industry, and dairy farming is its most competitive business.
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For the whole country, 52 percent of farming communities have no one under 65 primarily engaged in agriculture.
Perhaps because of her passion for organic farming, Merrigan, while a staffer for the Senate Agriculture Committee, was completely uneducable about the importance of genetically improved plant varieties to advances in agriculture.
He said there were signs people were starting to consider jobs in agriculture as the recession took hold and farmers were keen to promote farming careers to students and young people but that would take "many years to bear fruit".
It made draft-animal agriculture possible, and in doing so, radically increased the efficiency of farming, allowing humans to produce a wider variety and greater quantity of crops.
However, arsenic is also used in industry (as a wood preservative, and also in paints, dyes, metals, drugs and soaps) and in agriculture and is sometimes released into the environment from factories, industrial plants and farming enterprises.
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Reviving agriculture cannot be done without labour, and most of it left the countryside as commercial farming collapsed.
As a congressman, senator and vice president, he worked relentlessly toward creating disincentives to the development, testing and use of innovative, safe and potentially important technologies--especially biotechnology applied to agriculture, which has been instrumental in enhancing yields, reducing losses from pests and encouraging farming practices that prevent carbon dioxide release from tilling soil.
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.
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