The demand for water originates from four main sources, namely, agriculture, production of energy, industrial uses and human consumption.
Nowhere is this misconception more dangerous than in agriculture and food production.
On Friday, the price of benchmark Chicago corn reached an all-time high after the US Department of Agriculture cut its production estimate by 17%.
Twenty-seven tribal and non-tribal communities inhabit 418 villages living on agriculture (including production of medicinal plants) and non-timber products produced in the buffer zone and transition areas.
Roughly 4.1 million people are directly employed in production agriculture as farmers, ranchers and laborers, but the industry directly or indirectly employs approximately one out of six American workers, including those working in food processing, marketing, shipping and supermarkets.
He missed the nuances about genetic engineering applied to agriculture and food production and as is his wont, devoted ample ink to the anti-biotech crowd, including the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology (which Pollack described only as a "nonprofit group, " although "doctrinaire anti-biotechnology lobbyists" would have been more accurate) and the radical, notoriously mendacious Friends of the Earth.
Agenda 21 envisions a global scheme for healthcare, education, nutrition, agriculture, labor, production, and consumption.
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He said some industries, such as military hardware production and agriculture, are even growing.
The real winners of the global economy have turned out to be not the creative types or the data junkies, but the material boys: countries, states and companies that have perfected the art of physical production in agriculture, energy and, remarkably, manufacturing.
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Maybe it's just because it is all so new, but the idea of using, say, reverse osmosis filters to remove water molecules and artificially concentrate wine from a rainy vintage makes wine production sound less like agriculture and more like the Rise of the Machines.
" He said boosting farm income through direct payments will help stabilize the agriculture economy yet "not encourage excess production.
Throughout my years in agriculture education, I have learned about various topics in agriculture- from crop sciences to animal production to business management and more.
If the facts surrounding political scandals and our results in agriculture (record highs in legal crop production volumes, record lows in rural unemployment, 4.8m hectares granted or entitled to 223, 000 peasant families, etc) were examined in your article your perplexity on President Uribe's untarnished reputation would have vanished, and the intent to tarnish the reputation of some of us who worked by his side would have been avoided.
Oct. 8: For a second month running, the Agriculture Department cut its forecast for US corn production.
The college, which teaches subjects such as agriculture, business, equine management and food production, is the oldest of its kind in the English-speaking world, dating back to 1845.
To this end, the PLP emphasise training in, for example, literacy (mathematics, English, Urdu), health, agriculture (crop, fish, poultry and livestock production), life skills (peace-building, conflict management and resolution), food processing and preservation and dressmaking.
With projects such as Meixi Lake City, starting from scratch brings significant benefits not open to -- easily at least -- existing conurbations, such as combining water transport with energy production, superior flood prevention and urban agriculture.
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Others have blamed the cull threat on the European Union's Common Agriculture Policy (Cap), which encouraged over-production.
The green revolution, which spread enabling technologies of high-yield agriculture across the planet, resulted in doubling of grain production.
Having hit lows of 429 thousand tons, exports decreased to only 14% of production, according to data from the Ministry of Agriculture.
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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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Outside the capital, crops covering an area larger than Portugal have been killed by heat and drought, delivering a blow to an agriculture industry that has rebounded in recent years from a fall of production in the 1990s.
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Goodyear asked the staff to change production shifts so that the plant could churn out tires for agriculture machines and cars around the clock.
More than half of the country's workers are employed in rural areas, mainly in agriculture and related work, and their purchasing power is dependent on farm production.
Production of crops and livestock is water-intensive, and agriculture alone accounts for 70% of all water withdrawn by the combined agriculture, municipal and industrial (including energy) sectors.
Some academic researchers say it is hard to quantify an actual labor shortage in U.S. agriculture, in part because there is so little evidence of a decline in production.
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It resumed burger production last week following an audit by the Republic's Department of Agriculture.
According to Andres Oopkaup, Deputy Secretary General of Estonia's Agriculture Ministry, 37% of food and farm output is dependent on domestic milk production.
Ann Veneman, Mr Bush's agriculture secretary, suggested a more sensible approach to farm support, unlinking subsidies from production and focusing more on the environment.
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