In breadbasket states, lawmakers are examining industrial hemp production as a way of boosting farm income.
AS TECHNIQUES for boosting farm yields go, loading peasants into trucks and resettling them far from home has been conspicuously unsuccessful in the past.
(Tom Vilsack, the agriculture secretary, has been busily promoting action on climate as a way of boosting farm incomes, since farmers can earn "offsets" from polluting industries by reducing their own greenhouse-gas emissions).
Chief scientists from agriculture departments of the G-20 countries met for the first time last week in Jalisco, Mexico, to identify priorities for sustainably boosting farm productivity.
Projected world population growth, coupled with the new eating habits of a rising middle class, are likely to continue putting pressure on prices and boosting farm income levels for years to come.
A good monsoon may boost farming, but the formal, industrial bit of the economy is in dire condition.
This shows that: The UN has paid more than $13m to the Syrian government to boost farming and agriculture, yet the EU has banned trade with the departments in question for fear of how the money will be used.
WeatherMe aims to boost farming production by combining farming science and weather data in a simple way.
Tasmania has become a "living laboratory" that is unlocking the secret lives of cows, monitoring stress levels among oysters and warning vineyards of disease and frost to help boost farming on Australia's Apple Isle.
The traditional alliance of lawmakers from urban and rural districts — one faction strongly supportive of nutrition assistance programs and the other of subsidies that boost farming interests — had served to give the legislation significant bipartisan backing when it was reauthorized every five years.
It would also boost farm income in developing countries.
