Field reports suggest that this reduction is mainly a result of farmers refraining from planting.

According to press reports, the Territory now imports large amounts of organic food and organically grown produce.

The local administration also includes prime agricultural lands including numerous drug farms on lands that were taken from the local farmers.

43. The Department s experimental farm continues to test different varieties of plants and growing methods and the results are reported to district meetings of farmers arranged in cooperation with the local agricultural society.

15. The impact and after effects of activities in the Polygon on ecology, environment and agriculture were significant.

If the circumstances had not demanded it, I would not have become a soldier, but rather a farmer and agriculturist.

The main crops are fruit and vegetables, which are produced mostly for local consumption, though some are exported to the United States Virgin Islands.

People here survive mainly on subsistence farming.

Through IFAD it would seek to ensure that appropriate attention is given dryland research within the CGIAR NARS complex.

As a result, 53 small earth stations were installed in remote and rural areas of China to receive ITV programmes and for rebroadcast for local reception.

Support to the local communities and cities in subject of agrarian land management in coordination with the extension and the inquiry.

The appropriate prices to be used for this purpose should be the local prices that would have been paid to the farmers if the lost crops had been produced.

There are differences between agricultural and urban zones in respect to the degree of educational achievement the ratio of the population without any level of education is lesser in the urban areas than in the agricultural ones.

If you drill water to make coke near a village farm, that's not illegal, but yes, it costs the community.

In the rural areas 28 per cent of households are female headed and in the urban areas 29 per cent are female headed.

As a result, previously very large farms have been subdivided and sold to local farmers.

And if you fill the cup with local agriculture from small farmers, you have a transformative effect.

Measures of agricultural policy should encourage amalgamation of property to allow for application of updated agro techniques and higher yields.

The prevailing stereotypes assign a place to women as workers only, and not as managers of farms.

It was reported in December that the Taliban authorities handed back confiscated agricultural land to farmers in Kunar province.

Also, people are starving due to the impossibility of growing food as the land has been destroyed by chemicals.

In the creation of dekhkan farms, local executive bodies of State authority are limited to merely land allocation, and all other matters are handled by the farmers themselves.

Agricultural land at 500 metres above sea level is 40 per cent of the total, land at between 500 and 1,000 metres above sea level is 35 per cent, while land over 1,000 metres above sea level is 25 per cent.

134. Since 1996, FAO field offices in affected areas have been requested to regularly provide information on the local situation as regards landmines and its impact on the agricultural sector.

And we'll extend it to the rural centers and make it affordable.

In Africa, small farmers bear the brunt of this risk.

It should be emphasized that these results do not imply that 70 of rural women are poor or indigent.

(iv) Members of the Southern Sierra Peasants apos Organization (OCSS), who had received death threats from government forces in connection with their activities on behalf of the local peasant and indigenous population.

Joe Renton, like the other farmers here abouts, is up and coming, raises good apples.

Or being a farm laborer.

Since now. I don't want to be just any farm wife.

Such training should stress sustainable agricultural practices suited to local conditions.

The rural population is dispersed throughout the rest of the country.

Most of them were institutions established by local authorities (77.6 per cent in cities and 97.9 per cent in villages).

Concern is expressed about the vulnerable position of young farmers, caused by the power of big landlords, the liberalization of economies (resulting in the import of agricultural products), the dumping of agricultural products and limited financial support from Governments.

What matters is the outcome on the ground.

Notwithstanding that, agriculture continues to play an important part in the livelihood of the local people.

These include improved rural livelihoods (including for women), improved local nutrition and food security, multi faceted environmental benefits, enhanced agro biodiversity through in situ conservation of indigenous farmers' varieties, increased employment opportunities, positive gender effects, etc.

By the end of 2002, agricultural land had been allotted to approximately 12 million farmer households and 91.74 of the households were granted with agricultural land use certificates, taking up 87.02 of the agricultural land area.

Distances from farm to factory cannot be too long and the location of factories must be consistent with source of raw materials or point of exit.

but you don't wanna marry a farmer.

Use of the 1991 local producer prices from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ( FAO ) instead of the market prices from FAO and the Iranian Ministry of Commerce.

45. The Government has hired an agronomist to advise on new techniques of food production and has opened a new farmers market for the marketing of local produce.

But farmers in the rest of the world are actually quite skinny, and that's because they're starving.

This in turn undermined the viability of local suppliers, including much of the farm sector.