Sentence examples for improved farming from inspiring English sources
No period in history compares to the Great Acceleration after World War II, a rapid increase in human activity driven by population expansion, globalisation, technological and communications improvement, improved farming methods and medical advances.
A major part of the FAO's work in northern Uganda is promoting improved farming systems to produce improved, high-yielding rice varieties, particularly Nerica (New Rice for Africa).
It is tough for the people of Katine, whose needs are so urgent, to be told that Amref is often not planning to deliver the goods, but the means to acquiring the goods: not oxen, for example, but improved farming techniques that will increase income and enable farmers to buy their own oxen.
Access to information from extension agents is expected to help farmers adopt improved farming technology, thereby increasing the probability of higher yields.
Households with access to information from extension agents are expected to adopt improved farming technology, thus, they may require a higher quantum of loan to meet higher production costs.
"For example, wheat yields were one tonne per hectare in the middle of the 19th Century but improved farming methods and agri-science research now sees us closer to nine tonnes per hectare in the UK today," he told BBC News.
– Using Genes to Improve Farming.
It provides technical training to improve farming techniques and salt quality, covering aspects such as drilling boreholes, improving salt pan layout and managing pumps more efficiently.
Mobile information services could generate a similar level of extra income, thanks to access to specialised local helplines to improve farming best practice.
He said after war had destroyed Teso's economic fabric, the only hope farmers are left with is improving farming techniques and diversifying, such as investigating citrus farming because the fruits are more durable.
One is that more efforts will be made to genetically improve farmed fish, either through engineering or breeding, much as is now done by breeding livestock.
