The hillside was once covered in rich vegetation but trees had been felled over time to make room for urbanization and small-scale agriculture.
Precision agriculture is saving farmers across the country millions of dollars annually and dramatically reducing the impact of large-scale agriculture on the environment by avoiding unnecessary application of fertilizers and pesticides to crops.
It's also easy to overlook the damage inflicted on local ecosystems and economies -- a large portion of which are in the developing world -- as a consequence of current industrial-scale agriculture practices.
With large-scale agriculture all but gone from New England and logging companies concentrating their attention elsewhere, Kellett's biggest fear is that real estate development could begin to carve up the vast forests of Maine.
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Reforesting Scotland, a pressure group which wants to recreate the native pine forest that used to cover the moorlands, says many more jobs could be provided by replacing the heather with a mixture of forestry, small-scale agriculture and wildlife tourism.
Promote large-scale agriculture and corporate farming.
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Not only did government regulators underplay scientific evidence of the effectiveness and relative safety of DDT, they also failed to appreciate the distinction between its large-scale use in agriculture and more limited application for controlling carriers of human disease.
For Utrecht-based Rabobank, the sale is the latest move in its plan to streamline its overseas business and exit markets where it lacks scale, and focus on agriculture and food-related businesses.
People survive either from agriculture or from small-scale mining of gold or colombo-tantalite, an ore used in mobile phones that makes its way to the outside world through Uganda or Rwanda.
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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Lacking large-scale natural resources, the government has boosted manufacturing and agriculture.
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It was a development driven partly by the increasing complexity of societies founded on agriculture but much more by the organisational challenges of conducting warfare on an ever-greater scale.
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