This system is divided into a forest highway system, administered by the Secretary of Commerce, and a forest development road and trail system, administered by the Secretary of Agriculture.

A 2005 report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) estimates that although the Earth's total forest area continues to decrease at about 13 million hectares per year, the global rate of deforestation has recently been slowing.

National Forests are largely forest and woodland areas owned by the federal government and managed by the United States Forest Service, part of the United States Department of Agriculture.

The United States Department of Agriculture, which owned the land, was experimenting at that time with forest grazing at the project.

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations estimates that in coming decades, cropland will continue to be lost to industrial and urban development, along with reclamation of wetlands, and conversion of forest to cultivation, resulting in the loss of biodiversity and increased soil erosion.

Cork oaks cannot legally be cut down in Portugal, except for forest management felling of old, unproductive trees, and, even in those cases, farmers need special permission from the Ministry of Agriculture.

The act, along with Pinchot's advocacy, helped influence President Roosevelt to transfer federal forest land over to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, later becoming the National Forest Service.

While the Ministry of Agriculture is the official regulator of Israel's forests, the JNF is responsible for the implementation of forest management and afforestation.

In February 1905, management of the forest reserves was transferred from the Department of Interior to the Department of Agriculture.

Agriculture is the primary economic resource ; farmlands dominate the lands along the coast, while the mountainous areas are covered with a patchwork of forest and pasturelands.

Agriculture that mimics encourages natural forest species along with the crops also takes pressure off nearby uncultivated forest areas where people are allowed to collect forest products.

Excluded from the Agriculture, Forestry, Hunting and Fishing sector are establishments primarily engaged in agricultural research and establishments primarily engaged in administering programs for regulating and conserving land, mineral, wildlife, and forest use.

Agriculture is limited due to the steep slopes and thin peaty soils on Belmore, however extensive plantations of coniferous forest can be found on the upper plateau.

Out of the total land area of 8, 772 hectares ; 7572 hectares is devoted to Agriculture ; 33. 34 hectares in Industrial ; 12 hectares in Commercial ; 86 hectares in residential ; 25 hectares in Institutional and 1, 043. 66 hectares in forest, rivers, marsh and swamps.

The Denbigh Experimental Forest 636 acres ( 2. 6 km² ) is an arboretum and experimental forest operated by the Forest Service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

The region has an extremely impressive forest restoration programme which is well documented by the Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations Environment Programme and the Global Partnership on Forest Landacape Restoration.

The charter given by James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture states: The National Forests are for the purpose of preserving a perpetual supply of timber for home industries, preventing a destruction of forest cover which regulates the flow of streams, and protecting local residents from unfair competition in the use of forest and range.

Roosevelt declined to act, but the threat of moving the Forest Service out of the United States Department of Agriculture resulted in greater protections for national forest wilderness areas.

Earlier, in 1906, Gifford Pinchot, Chief Forester in the Department of Agriculture, sought to move the national parks into the forest service.

He initiated the Vanmahotsav in 1950, when he was Union Minister of Food and Agriculture, to increase area under forest cover.

His support for the insurgents ( though not as one of their leaders ) was offset by the continuation of Rutherford's Agriculture Minister Duncan Marshall, who had played no particular role during the scandal but had remained loyal to Rutherford.

Important College leaders in the 19th century include John C. Holmes, who kept the Agriculture School from being a part of the University of Michigan and is widely credited with being the prime mover for the school's founding ; Joseph R. Williams, the first president ; and Theophilus C. Abbot, the third president who stabilized the College after the Civil War.

The AAA reflected the desires of leaders of various farm organizations and Roosevelt's Secretary of Agriculture, Henry A. Wallace.

Ba Maw was afterwards declared head of state, and his cabinet included both Aung San as War Minister and the Communist leader Thakin Than Tun as Minister of Land and Agriculture as well as the Socialist leaders Thakins Nu and Mya.

Dean shows that the major Fair Deal initiative, the " Brannan Plan " proposed by Secretary of Agriculture Brannan, failed in Congress because Truman delayed too long in presenting it before Congress and it lost initiative and because he never consulted with top leaders in farm legislation.

The act reflected the demands of leaders of major farm organizations, especially the Farm Bureau, and reflected debates among Roosevelt's farm advisers such as Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, M. L.

It was perceived by the Roosevelt Administration as a political threat, since Council leaders questioned U. S. Department of Agriculture policies.

Available, on request, from U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington 25, D.C., are: Cooperative Farm Credit Can Assist In Rural Development ( Circular No. 44 ), and The Cooperative Farm Credit System ( Circular No. 36-A ).

The United States Department of Agriculture and its myriad agencies such as the Agricultural Marketing Service are the primary sources of regulatory activity, although other administrative bodies such as the Environmental Protection Agency play a significant regulatory role as well.

Agriculture supports more than 70 % of the labour force, the majority of whom are subsistence farmers.

Under current United States law, bio-agents which have been declared by the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services or the U. S. Department of Agriculture to have the " potential to pose a severe threat to public health and safety " are officially defined as " select agents ".

Nowadays, the agencies that are responsible for the biotechnology regulation are: US Department of Agriculture ( USDA ) that regulates plant pests and medical preparation from living organisms, Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) that regulates pesticides and herbicides, and the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) which ensures that the food and drug products are safe and effective

Agriculture and tourism are two of the most important industries in Fermanagh.

Cheddar cheese is one of several products used by the United States Department of Agriculture to track the dairy industry ; reports are issued weekly detailing prices and production quantities.

Dalhousie ’ s Faculty of Agriculture varsity teams are referred to as the Dalhousie Rams, and compete in the ACAA, and as members of the CCAA.

Dalhousie University ’ s Faculty of Agriculture sports teams are called the Dalhousie Rams, and participate in the Atlantic Collegiate Athletic Association and as members of the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association.

Agriculture is a key component of the economy in rural areas, though some people are employed in the tourist industry or other non-farm occupations.

Agriculture employs about 80 percent of the population in Eritrea, and the remaining 20 percent are employed in industry and services.

Food safety and food security are monitored by agencies like the International Association for Food Protection, World Resources Institute, World Food Programme, Food and Agriculture Organization, and International Food Information Council.

Where trade barriers are raised on the disputed grounds of public health and safety, the WTO refer the dispute to the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which was founded in 1962 by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ), 75, 866 square kilometres of the world are dedicated to grapes.

In consequence, the United States Department of Agriculture ( USDA ) has approved the use of low-level irradiation as an alternative treatment to pesticides for fruits and vegetables that are considered hosts to a number of insect pests, including fruit flies and seed weevils ; the U. S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has cleared among a number of other applications the treatment of hamburger patties to eliminate the residual risk of a contamination by a virulent E. coli.

Agriculture, crafts, animal husbandry and fishery are the main traditional sources of income.

Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy ; other major industries are transportation, manufacturing, mining, forestry, energy, and tourism.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates the following production of unprocessed tobacco by country in 2009 ( figures are in thousands of tonnes.

* Agriculture is not a major employer, coconuts are the main produce

On the other hand, some academics believe the figures given below by the Food and Agriculture Organisation ( FAO ) are a serious underestimate.

These values are estimated using country-specific food balance sheets published by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations.

The ten largest producing countries, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization, are all located in the Mediterranean region and produce 95 % of the world's olives.

Farm-to-market roads fall under this category, and a few are financed by the Department of Agrarian Reform and the Department of Agriculture.