Sentence examples for modern farming technology from inspiring English sources

Despite years of lobbying, the World Wildlife Fund says that of the six states with rain forest on their territory, only one, Acre, which contains less than 10percentt of the Amazon area, has put laws into effect to promote sustainable development through controlled logging and modern farming technology.

While modern farming technologies and techniques have helped to reduce this vulnerability and boost production, the impact of recent droughts in the USA, China and Russia on global cereal production highlight a glaring potential future vulnerability.

A few decades ago, the crop was cultivated using rudimentary practices, but today farmers use modern farming technologies including herbicides due to several factors.

Tough climates, environmental degradation and a lack of modern farm technology often limit food production to one-third or less of its potential.

If farmers are going to adopt precision agriculture and other modern farm technologies, we can't afford to ignore the value inherent in the data collected.

Despite the yield improvements associated with the adoption of new farming technologies and modern inputs, technology diffusion amongst small-scale farmers in developing countries is slow.

The adoption rate between 1996 and 2007 is a 67-fold increase (Fig.  1) which represents the fastest adoption of a crop technology in modern farming history [ 3].

This consolidation of real estate plus the implementation of more efficient technologies is analogous to modern farming: cloud computing adopters are doing more on the same amount or even less space than they were even a few years ago.

Like any new technology, it would give people pause for thought but, when compared to some modern farming and food processing, Rayner is confident that the unease would pass.

"That's modern farming for you," he sighs.

When I asked Doug to name the most valuable skill on a modern farm, he didn't hesitate: "I.T". information technology.