A fifth of the world's 391,000 wild plant species are now thought to be threatened with extinction; more than 10% of the world's vegetable land cover has changed just in the past decade; and our disregard of the plant kingdom continues apace.
Eight types of land-use (patch type) were identified: cropland, vegetable land, orchard, forested land, residential land, abandoned cultivated land, wasted grassland, and sand land.
All the land uses were proved to improve the soil properties, especially in the tea garden, vegetable land and paddy field.
All clusters were interpreted as different sets with practical meanings: soil in abandoned greenbelt, soil in ill-managed greenbelt, soil in new vegetable land, extreme urban conditioned soil, soil in well-managed greenbelt, soil in highly mellowed vegetable land, soil in common urban peri-urban greenbelt and weak-urban peri-urbanoil.
The erodibility K values of soils in grass land, eucalyptus forest land, vegetable land, tea garden, sweet potato land, and paddy field were 14.43, 16.97, 45.45, 33.12, 18.94, and 34.01% lower than those of bare land, respectively.
In addition, the application of land uses included grass land, eucalyptus forest land, vegetable land, tea garden, sweet potato land, and paddy field reduced the erodibility of the soil compare to bare land.
The land use for vegetable farming showed the highest trend with a sharp increase of 672% from 1966 to 2010 especially in the areas nearby Bertam and Telom catchment areas, followed by other land uses (shrub, grass and orchard) (576%) and urban development (100%) (substantially at Tanah Rata and Brinchang).
The land in Sirubari is ideal for vegetable farming, but currently there is only enough water for drinking and livestock.
Smallholder farmers are engaged in wetland vegetable farming to obtain higher yields for increased vegetable sales when compared with dry land cropping.
Ms Chatziargyrou is now cultivating vegetables on land she has borrowed from a professor at the farm school.
Now, I suspect that if someone approached you and said that they were going to cover your fruit and vegetables and the land they were grown in with poison to facilitate a maximum yield of those same fruits and vegetables, you would probably say "No thank you!" And, of course, that's what non-organic farming looks like, and lots and lots of people eat non-organic food.
