If the government is serious about development, some say, agro-industry is much more promising than small-scale farming.
For now, says the NFU, traditional, small-scale farming still works in rainy, western areas of the country where the climate suits it.
The Highland Clearances of the 18th and 19th centuries saw families cleared from land to make way for large scale farming and sporting estates.
The widespread adoption of GPS systems for large-scale farming is inevitable.
The total resident population is 14, 957 with main activities being forestry and small scale farming, traditional bee keeping and, increasingly, tourism (180, 000 visitors from May to September).
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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Their hope was to make more capital from the land by running shooting estates, or starting industrial-scale livestock farming.
The subject of offshoring food production, through large-scale contract farming arrangements between richer and poorer nations, is another topic awaiting further exploration.
Starting in the late 18th Century and running into the 19th Century, the clearances saw townships occupied by generations of families cleared to make way for large-scale sheep farming and the rearing of deer.
Starting in the late 18th Century and running into the 19th Century, the Highland Clearances saw townships occupied by generations of families cleared to make way for large-scale sheep farming and the rearing of deer.
Promote large-scale agriculture and corporate farming.
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But he said he felt that the current outbreak, although far smaller in scale, could be more damaging to the farming community.
The fear of large-scale farms is real, however, among small farming communities and indigenous peoples in Latin America.
At the same time, the government has moved to reduce the dependence on tourism by promoting the development of farming, fishing, and small-scale manufacturing.
The development has worried farming unions and politicians in Wales, as the scale of the foot-and-mouth crisis deepens.
As with much of farming and food production, it is the large-scale industrial-commercial enterprises that draw more criticism than small family-run farms.
He proposes the industrial-scale culturing (biomanufacturing, as he describes it, rather than farming) of single-celled algae that have been genetically engineered to turn out fuel-ready hydrocarbons.
Raised by a family of successful farming entrepreneurs, Jose understands by way of practical experience how growing a business to scale has the power to transform families and communities.
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