Finally, the skyrocketing price of soybeans and cotton led farmers to quadruple the number of hectares planted with these two crops.

They were mainly farmers who planted in the overflow of the untamed river, following the age-old customs of the Aha macave.

In contrast, Native American farmers had to struggle to develop maize as a useful food from its probable wild ancestor, teosinte ; moreover, it provides few nutrients and must be planted one by one – an extremely cumbersome task.

Some farmers planted of groves, and others as many as.

Sea breezes washed nutrients on crops planted on sand dunes, much as now is done through roots in hydroponic gardens, and cotton and tobacco thrived ; farmers from Loris, Gallivant ’ s Ferry, Florence and other low-country towns bought land on the coast for practical reasons and then spent summers with their families there, rather than stay in the hellish heat and sand fleas of their main farms.

The farmers of the Rhone Valley have long planted rows of cypress trees to shelter their crops from the dry force of the mistral.

Local farmers planted kiwi fruit and grapes, but the most famous of Shiroi's fruits turned out to be nashi pears.

In the 1980s, the Jerusalem artichoke also gained some notoriety when its seeds were planted by midwestern US farmers at the prodding of an agricultural pyramid scheme.

It proved abundant, so from then on Paraguay's farmers planted two crops a year.

The trees were planted by local farmers on marginal land unsuitable for farming.

This invention gave farmers much greater control over the depth that the seed was planted and the ability to cover the seeds without back-tracking.

Wales shares other Twelfth Night customs with its neighbor, England, including the yule log, and the wassail to wish farmers a good harvest in the coming year, but here the yule log's ashes were saved then buried along with the seeds planted in the ensuing spring to ensure a good harvest, while the wassail bowl was taken to the house of newlyweds or to a family which had recently come to live in the district and songs sung outside the house door.

Owing to Tawang's cold climate, farmers breed yak and sheep, although in lower altitudes crops are also planted.

The neighbouring farmers had not been able to provide help, as the terrorists had planted explosives, but they had alerted the security forces whose post divisional headquarters was a few kilometres away.

The region ’ s first grapes were planted in the 1980s by local farmers well attuned to Mount Benson ’ s unique and rugged climatic conditions.

Its inhabitants-Christians in the lowlands and various tribes of non Christians Igorots in the mountains were farmers who planted rice, corn, sugar, cotton vegetables and fruits.

The farmers had planted the manioc " just hours " before the eruption.

U. S. corn farmers planted more than of triple-stack corn in 2008, and it is estimated the product could be planted on in 2014 – 2015.

Although most species of Striga are not pathogens that affect human agriculture, some species have devastating effects upon crops, particularly those planted by subsistence farmers.

Part-time farmers generally must pay higher prices for supplies than full-time farmers because they buy in smaller quantities.

The higher price supports provided by the new legislation, together with rising prices for farm products, are pushing up farm income, making it possible for farmers to afford the new machinery.

That the principal exportable product of the Ohio Valley was grain did not help matters, as grain was a high-volume, low-priced commodity, frequently not worth the cost of transporting it to far-away population centers ( this was a factor leading to farmers in the west turning their grains into Whiskey for easier transport and higher sales, and later the Whiskey Rebellion ).

Finnish data for the early 1980s showed that 30 to 40 percent of those in occupations not requiring much education were the children of farmers, as were about 25 percent in upper-level occupations, a rate two to three times that of France and noticeably higher than that even of neighbouring Sweden.

For a period of time, cattle farmers illegally smuggled beef cattle to Guatemala and other neighboring countries where prices were higher, but the Honduran cattle sector never became competitive internationally.

Eventually returning to agriculture, he earned a living as both a moneylender and a grain merchant, buying up local grain and then selling it on in the city for a higher price, allowing him to become one of the wealthiest farmers in Shaoshan, with 20 acres of land.

When cocoa bean prices are high, farmers may invest in their crops, leading to higher yields which, in turn tends to result in lower market prices and a renewed period of lower investment.

An existing provision in the tax code, called Income Averaging, which reduced taxes for those only recently making a much higher salary than before, was eliminated ( although later partially reinstated, for farmers in 1997 and for fishermen in 2004 ).

Because banks failed in the Dust Bowl region with a higher rate of frequency than in the rest of the country, it was harder for farmers to gain access to the credit they needed to buy capital to shift crop production.

Increased demand since the 1980s, principally from China, for both Amomum villosum and Amomum tsao-ko has provided a key source of income for poor farmers living at higher altitudes in localized areas of China, Laos and Vietnam, people typically isolated from many other markets.

With the growing profitability of industry, farmers wanted to move to towns to receive higher wages than those they could earn working in the fields, while landowners also invested in the more profitable industry.

In 2009 / 10 and 2010 / 11, farmers who exceed their milk quotas by more than 6 percent will have to pay a levy 50 percent higher than the normal penalty.

It is estimated that public support for farmers in OECD countries costs a family of four on average nearly 1, 000 USD per year in higher prices and taxes.

After two decades of significant CAP reforms, farmers can now respond to market signals and increase production to react to the higher prices.

Western farmers who owned small stills did not usually operate them year-round at full capacity, so they ended up paying a higher tax per gallon ( 9 cents ), which made them less competitive.

The mills were often family businesses and continued manufacturing after the wool crisis in 1950 – 51, which saw Australian sheep farmers begin to charge higher prices.

A new party, the Country Party ( now the National Party ), was formed, representing farmers who were discontented with the Nationalists ' rural policies, in particular Hughes ' acceptance of a much higher level of tariff protection for Australian industries ( that had expanded during the war ) and his support for price controls on rural produce.

Increased agricultural productivity enables farmers to grow more food, which translates into better diets and, under market conditions that offer a level playing field, into higher farm incomes.

Conventional thinking in westernized countries is that maximizing farmers ' profits is the surest way of maximizing agricultural production ; the higher a farmer ’ s profit, the greater the effort that will be forthcoming, and the greater the risk the farmer is willing to take.

The application of clay technology by farmers in Northeast Thailand, using bentonite clay, has dramatically reversed soil degradation and resulted in greater economic returns, with higher yields and higher output prices.

The average output price for farmers using clay technologies was 18 % higher than that for non-clay users ; this suggests that either clay-using farmers go for high value crops ( as in vegetable farms ) or they receive a higher price for their produce, due to better quality ( e. g., from organic rice and integrated farms ).

Practically all the people of Laos, he explained -- about two million of them -- are rice farmers, and the means and motives of modern war are as strange to them as clocks and steel plows.

Some development experts argue that government protection of corn, bean, and rice production by small farmers is a futile effort in the long-term goal of poverty reduction.

The monsoon is preceded by a buildup of thunderstorm activity in the hills that helps farmers irrigate rice seedbeds.

Botanicals, so-called " natural pesticides ", are used by some farmers in an attempt to control rice pests.

Some upland rice farmers in Cambodia spread chopped leaves of the bitter bush ( Chromolaena odorata ) over the surface of fields after planting.

Chinese population size would not dramatically increase until the Song Dynasty period, where the population doubled to 100 million people due to extensive rice cultivation in central and southern China, coupled with rural farmers holding more abundant yields of food that they could easily provide the growing market.

In southern and small parts of central Han-era China, paddy fields were chiefly used to grow rice, while farmers along the Huai River used transplantation methods of rice production.

They are farmers who grow rice and have the same traditional handicraft.

Historically, the language was first called Khaskura ( language of the khas ' rice farmers '), then Gorkhali or Gurkhali ( language of the Gurkha ) before the term Nepali was taken from Nepal Bhasa.

However the program has been beset by problems getting the rice into the hands of farmers, and to date the only success has been in Guinea where it currently accounts for 16 % of rice cultivation.

Similarly, some rice farmers introduce ducks and fish to wet paddy fields to eat both weeds and insects.

The consolidation has led to a decrease in production of many staples such as milk, rice, maize, potatoes and lentils, and about 150, 000 small farmers have left the countryside because they could no longer make a living ( as they could not afford GM soya ) or were driven off their land.

Many of those who work in the area are farmers, growing rice, soybeans, corm, milo, sugarcane or crawfish.

By 1915, the village boasted four cotton gins producing thousands of bales of cotton ; however, the decline in the demand for cotton led local farmers toward the growing of rice that is now the major crop of the area.

Realizing the importance of a railroad to the rice farmers, Gueydan donated a section of land and extensive right-of-way to induce the Southern Pacific Railroad to build a branch line from Midland, Louisiana.

These prisoners helped to maintain rice fields while local farmers were serving in the military.

Mumun Period rice farmers used all of the elements that are present in today's paddies such terracing, bunds, canals, and small reservoirs.

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The carabaos provided the necessary labor that allowed Filipino farmers to grow rice and other staples.

Japanese army patrols would not only confiscate the rice but would also slaughter the carabaos for meat, thereby preventing the farmers from growing enough rice to feed the large population.

Nevertheless, most of the refugees were small farmers who, by 1857, were growing considerable quantities of sugar, rice, corn, and vegetables in the Northern District ( now Corozal and Orange Walk districts ).

The land is highly cultivated with sugar cane, sorghum, rice, corn and vegetables, with a significant amount of this agriculture done by Mennonite farmers.