Sentence examples for maintained farming from inspiring English sources

Specific support for "less favoured areas" has maintained farming in regions, such as the Scottish Highlands or the poorest areas of southern Italy and the Greek islands, where agriculture might otherwise have foundered altogether.

The three farmers interviewed who maintained farms either at Tres Cerros or Puerto San Julian maintained significant other business interests to provide financial security.

They built their own houses and boats, produced most of their own food, maintained farm equipment, shod their own horses, and made their own clothes, boots and shoes.

"We are worried that it may set a precedent or that it is a trend but we would like to maintain farming in the area as it is the crown of the Cumbrian uplands".

Social approaches to this theme underline the relevance of non-profit decisions in maintaining farming activity (Kuehne et al2010).

Since coming into operation, the overall aim of the CAP is to provide European farmers with a reasonable standard of living, consumers with quality food at fair prices and to maintain farming in all regions of the EU.

These mechanisms are intended to provide a basic level of support to maintain farming activity across the EU, to ensure a minimum level of maintenance to lands receiving payments, and to monitor and prevent significant declines in permanent pastures.

Recent renewed drives to maintain farming activities on extensive areas have been encouraged at the EU level, which previously had witnessed a phenomenon of partial abandonment and reduction in flock sizes.

Those closed markets maintain farm incomes but also elevate prices for Canadian shoppers.

Governments have employed various measures to maintain farm prices and incomes above what the market would otherwise have yielded.

The Africans generally farm, though certain groups, like the Zaghawa, sometimes maintain farms while also sweeping south with their herds during the harvest season.