The Cornish Landscaping Granite Company is a wonderful exercise in farm diversification.
"In the first year it was very much a farm diversification.
Farm diversification is stimulated by the societal demand to transform production countryside into consumption countryside.
Her research explores how on-farm diversification practices influence soil health and its links to other ecological processes.
A longitudinal study of three Norwegian farms engaged in on-farm diversification was undertaken through farm visits and in-depth interviews.
The purpose of this paper is therefore to explore critical resources and capabilities for farm businesses engaged in entrepreneurial activities through on-farm diversification.
Do you have some spare farmland and a JCB? Suffolk farmer Jeremy Hall did, and combined them to create an unusual farm diversification – Rise Hall Farm in Suffolk became Trench Farm, a set for TV battle scenes.
The research findings indicate that the European multifunctional model of agriculture and its support for farm diversification including the provision of environmental goods and services has not been successful in targeting and rewarding HNV systems.
Farm surveys resulted in the definition of eleven criteria describing the diversity of pineapple practices to characterize pineapple farm-type: ridges, tillage, planting density, level of N fertilization and number of N application, harvest date, irrigation, farm diversification, elevation, weather and location.
Farm diversification is a growing strategy for economic competitiveness, especially throughout the industrialized temperate zone, and agroforestry offers great promise for the sustainable production of specialty nut and fruit crops, high-value medicinals, dairy and beef cattle, sheep, goats, and biomass for biofuel.
This implies that off-farm income has the tendency to initiate off-farm diversification.
