Sentence examples for high-input farming from inspiring English sources
Intensive high-input farming is known as one of the main drivers of the continuous biodiversity loss in agricultural landscapes.
Intensive high-input farming is a major force driving biodiversity loss and other environmental impacts beyond the "planetary boundaries" [113, 114].
GM crop agriculture relies on five plant species (soybean, maize, canola, sugar beet and cotton) predominately producing animal feed, ethanol and fibres in high-input farming systems.
This increase in demand is likely to be met through further losses of natural areas and the transformation of low-production systems to high-input farming and grazing systems.
This, together with high input farming practices, has had a deleterious effect on the quality of the rural landscape as a wildlife habitat.
European pastoralists who raise traditional livestock breeds grazing on pastures, and use low levels of inputs, in territories which cannot easily be used for arable farming, are rewarded for income foregone in not converting to more intensive high input farming.
This trend is compounded on the one hand by the increased frequency of climate extremes and on the other hand by economic pressures on farmers through high input farming and unsustainable farming practices which further damage mountain slopes (FAO 2002).
"High-input modern farming methods expose them to more risk because farmers must borrow money to buy seeds, fertilisers and pesticides.
The study compares the potential of high-input GM farming with that of low-tech "agro-ecological" methods increasingly employed by small farmers in developing countries, and argues that the risks of GM are downplayed and its benefits overplayed.
In small-scale, low-input rainfed farming systems, productivity is extremely variable and the advantage of transgenic cotton over conventional varieties is not as easy to demonstrate as it is in large-scale, high-input irrigated farming systems.
The brown planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens (Stål) (Hemiptera: Delphacidae), was a relatively minor pest of rice (Oryza sativa) prior to the advent of high-input rice farming.
