Sentence examples for intensity of farming from inspiring English sources
The report recommends a reduction in agrochemical use which would tend to reduce the energy intensity of farming.
The intensity of farming and the yields achieved are generally much higher in the European section than in Siberia.
The more specialised the farmland and non-farmland birds were, the more negatively affected they were by the intensity of farming practices, relative to the generalist bird species.
Economical factors affecting decision about management and treatment scale are influenced by the density and the intensity of farming in a given area, which favour centralized NMPs and allow optimizing logistics.
Bird density and intensity of farming practices were assessed within a sample of 58 farms across the Seine-et-Marne region in France, using point counts and a standardised farmer survey.
The quality of infrastructure, however, also affects the intensity of farming as it can be assumed that well exploited areas are farmed more intensively and vice versa.
Next, these landscape patterns and management descriptors were linked to the current production intensity of farms such as total farm milk yield, milk yield per cow and milk yield per hectare.
Therefore, the indirect effect of farming intensity on crop productivity through a change of weed pressure was positive and accounted for 7% of the total (direct + indirect) effect of farming intensity on crop productivity.
From the path model, we quantified the direct and indirect effects of farming intensity on crop productivity to show that effective weed management can sustain crop production in cropping systems with reduced herbicide use.
Adopting factor analysis and mixed effect models, we show that the percentage cover of species-rich farmland and landscape elements can be predicted by a combination of factors describing the intensity of arable farming, topography, low-input grassland farming, landscape structure and the intensity of livestock farming.
