Defenders of high-tech farming insist that existing laws, if enforced, are sufficient to preserve the environment.

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These high nature-value farming systems face a harsh choice between abandonment and intensification.

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About high-yield organic farming techniques - neither.

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Rice, barley, dairy products, and leaf tobacco farming operates under high tariff and non-tariff barrier protection.

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President GEORGE W. BUSH: The town has grown from subsistence farming to selling high-value crops like lettuce and carrots and celery.

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It is largely rural and dominated by farming interests but boasts a number of high-tech companies and science parks.

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High pork prices may be attracting new entrants into pig farming.

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High-tech aids had anyway been creeping into British farming.

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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.

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Without fundamental changes in farming and radical improvements in port surveillance, we remain at high risk of new disease outbreaks every day.

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Commercial farming in Mato Grosso has had to overcome formidable obstacles: high transport costs, recently low world prices, a currency till now overvalued, and a chronic lack of farm credit.

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