Compared with other crops, rice production is less efficient in the way it uses water.
High transport costs have made them uncompetitive, and their land is not well-suited to other crops.
There was the promise of a new school among other things in return for switching to other crops.
Fairtrade producers can use the premiums they receive to make the necessary investments to diversify into other crops.
On 5% of the world's vegetable-oil farmland it produces 38% of output, more than any of these other crops.
In the sierra there's lots of land to cultivate maize and other crops.
Neither is it easy to grow other crops in the Yungas, where alternative development has already been tried, unsuccessfully.
More dry-season water will greatly increase the production of rice and other crops.
He wanted the great sugar estates broken up and land distributed to small farmers, who would grow other crops.
This has traditionally been based on the export of coffee and other crops.
Separation distances around GM trials can prevent only 99.5% of contamination, so 0.5% of GM pollen could contaminate other crops.
Many growers, meanwhile, say the behavior from mills only encourages them to shift even more land away from sugar to other crops.
Cheap corn for consumers has forced small-plot farmers to look for other crops or migrate and look for work in other sectors.
As the domestic market shrank, thousands of cotton farmers in Mississippi and Lousiana switched to other crops such as corn and soybeans.
If they are to grow other crops, they have to be able to sell these to other countries at a reasonable price.
The government is trying to reduce its dependence on tobacco by encouraging farming diversification into other crops and bolstering the tourism industry.
Sugar cane, which is planted in the summer, is a water-intensive crop and farmers may shift to other crops temporarily, industry executives said.
To bring soybeans and other crops, including corn and such, for ethanol are great options for national security, but we also need fuel economy.
It will spark new ethanol production from corn and other crops.
If the prices of vegetables, fruit and other crops are more flexible than other prices, food inflation may be an early warning of an overheating economy.
During the 1960s, planners in the former Soviet Union began to divert its water sources to irrigate cotton and other crops in the region with disastrous consequences.
He said the season had been challenging for other crops as well not just potatoes, but the main concern for growers was just how bad harvests were going to be.
Al-Eryani argues farmers, much like himself, will need to see government-backed incentives before they'll ever switch to growing other crops or turn to the conservation methods needed to avert this collision course with nature.
Clinton also called on Congress to take additional steps to help farmers, including expanded eligibility for loans and more flexibility in subsidy programs so farmers can plant other crops when their primary crops fail.
The standard economic argument against Fairtrade goes like this: the low price of commodities such as coffee is due to overproduction, and ought to be a signal to producers to switch to growing other crops.
Women gather beans and other crops planted along the banks, leach the cyanide compounds out of manioc, a root that grows well in the poor soil, and then roast it to make a crunchy flour eaten throughout Brazil.
The Colombian Coffee Federation said its country's high-end growers have begun planting corn and other crops as a way of diversifying incomes, and that most have been reinvesting by replacing old coffee plants with newer, more productive ones.
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