Sentence examples for intensive farming system from inspiring English sources

The Ethiopian highlands have been experiencing soil fertility decline and severe soil erosion due to encroachment of intensive farming system on steep and fragile lands (Amsalu and de Graaff 2007).

Use of manure in the Netherlands' intensive farming system is strictly regulated to avoid environmental damage.

Human population is increasing worldwide giving rise to intensive farming system and unsuitable cropland management that ultimately results in reduced soil fertility (Onwudike 2010; Bedada et al. 2014).

Virus transmission from domestic to wild birds has rarely been observed (5, 6 ), but it appears to be a likely scenario since vultures feed on dead poultry and since during the same time (March 2006) an outbreak of HPAI (H5N1) occurred in an intensive farming system (http://www.oie.int/) in Ouagadougou, where infected vultures were also found.

"Though the sources of meat and fish used in zoos and aquaria can vary geographically, animal feeds are generally procured from intensive farming systems that are detrimental to the welfare of farmed animals," write Brando and Harfeld.

Large forest species of low mobility were less abundant in landscape units with intensive farming systems and a reduced network of permanent elements.

The intensive farming systems in use during the Early Neolithic, implying small-scale and labour-intensive cultivation resulted in a low impact of agriculture in off-site pollen records.

However, there is the need to investigate their role in intensive farming systems where a realistic and shareable proposal to realize buffer strips can only foresee the use of a limited space.

The reality is that, by their very nature, intensive farming systems are actually more likely to make animals and humans sick.

In the study by Becker et al. [ 13], C. suis was significantly (P < 0.0001) related to conjunctivitis in extensive pig production systems, whereas in intensive farming systems, high prevalences 88-900%) were found in both pigs with conjunctivitis and in clinically asymptomatic pigs.

In the present study, the pigs originated from several piglet producing herds and it should be emphasized that intensive farming systems with the mixing of pigs from several sources also imply increased opportunities for microbial spread among animals of different immunological status.