During the 15th and 16th centuries the area underwent intensive land-clearing that allowed for larger scale crop cultivation.
While such a drought would not necessarily be unremitting, he said, it could result in large-scale crop failures lasting 10 to 15 years at a stretch.
Applied to traditional farming equipment such as tractors, harvesters, ploughs and sprayers, it has enhanced labour efficiency and helped curb costly waste by enabling large-scale crop farmers to harvest and spray fields with pesticide and herbicide with centimetre accuracy.
Consider the U.S. in June: Iowa experienced a deluge of historic proportions, with large-scale crop destruction spiking the cost of food and raising fears of an inflationary spiral.
Together, they are planning to produce and market North America's first large-scale crop of black winter truffles....Carver and Safina can't do much without the third man: Pasquale Scricco, a fifty-two-year-old construction worker, who lives in Hopatcong, New Jersey.
The studied set included 201 samples originating from six fields in different regions of large-scale crop cultivation in France.
Viable large-scale crop production in the United States requires artificial drainage in humid and poorly drained agricultural regions.
Investors, both Kenyan and foreign, are acquiring leases on vast tracts of land for large-scale crop cultivation for food and bio-fuels.
The description of the arrangement, calibration and testing of this system supports the design process of accurate large-scale crop photosynthesis measuring systems for use in crop photosynthesis research.
In this study, we found that the benefits to sedentary small-scale agro-pastoralists who participate in wood and charcoal trade as well as to large-scale crop farmers are higher than the costs because land is cultivated and the wood is sold.
But, as concerned experts point out, large-scale crop and livestock producers haven't tossed out all of their old tools just yet.
