In other words, producers of crops and raw materials gradually became poorer relative to producers of cars and household appliances.
Additionally, women farmers take on different and often overlapping roles – contributing their labour as unpaid family workers, taking on farm work as casual agricultural labourers and sometimes as the principal producers of crops.
The House bill provides billions of dollars in price supports and payments to producers of crops like wheat, corn and soybeans — even though crop prices, fueled by the ethanol boom, are at or near all-time highs.
Among all the provinces and cities in China, Guangxi, Heilongjiang, and Henan were the top producers of crop straw.
He wades into the rich, loamy soil — the title's muck — of Belle Glade, Fla., historically a prodigious producer of crops (mostly sugar cane) and National Football League players, to spend a season with the Glades Central Raiders.
Cargill Inc., Wayzata, Minn., the world's largest agricultural company, and IMC Global Inc., producer of crop nutrients, Lake Forest, Ill., received U.S. antitrust approval for the merger of their fertilizer units, which would create a company with $4.1 billion in sales.
China is one of the world's largest producers of many crops, as well as one of the biggest consumers of staple food crops such as rice and wheat.
The government has provided essentially a guaranteed income to producers of these crops.
Its salient feature is a $50 billion increase in subsidies to big producers of row crops like corn and wheat over the next 10 years.
He estimated that under the buyout, tobacco growers in Kentucky would get an average of less than $7,500 a year compared with $10,000 annually that producers of other crops get under farm subsidies, though some large tobacco farmers and holders of tobacco quotas would receive substantially more.
For example, he contends that the agreement has accelerated the shift to large-scale, export-oriented farms that rely more heavily on water-polluting agro-chemicals and use more irrigated water compared with producers of similar crops for the Mexican market.
