intensive farming using plows and or irrigation

• Motivation for the future: in Haiti a participatory development program is helping communities find new hope in their battle against a grueling crisis.

...He was referring to the intensive imports of foreign food staples, mainly rice, that... that Jeudi and his peers are eager to start using, though it still lacks power. The fishermen fought...Its intricate network of irrigation canals was begun over 200 years ago by French colo...With similar projects that allow for farming income to grow, Constant believes "the face of the... he designed and implemented a project of ox plows, which the community chose to finance through PROD...

• Americas (English Edition)
• Vol. 61 Nbr. 1, January 2009

• SIC 0191 General Farms, Primarily Crop

...111998. All Other Miscellaneous Crop Farming. INDUSTRY SNAPSHOT. Despite steady decline over th...By 1955 sprinkler irrigation systems were being used on 2 million acres. A mech...While conventional tillage methods used plows to turn the soil and cover crop residue, conservat... called organic or natural, was a labor-intensive practice, and such crops were typically more expen... self-sufficiency in wheat production using a center-pivot irrigation system. Thus, U.S. produ...

• Encyclopedia of American Industries
• Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing

• Agricultural equipment.

... the sharp decrease in the use of moldboard plows, larger horsepower tractors, wider tillage tools, ... their field, and conservation tillage farming systems (including no-tillage) have grown in accep..., tillage equipment, sprayers, irrigation equipment, harvesting machinery, haying/mowing equ... band welded to it, which was labor-intensive and difficult to install. The cast segment design ... to a ductile iron, green sand casting using two cores. With a per part savings of $25, the 30-...

• Modern Casting
• Vol. 92 Nbr. 2, February 2002

• The Cow and the Thing Called 'What': Dinka Cultural Perspectives on Wealth and Poverty.

The Dinka of Southern Sudan, Africa, do not see their economic situation as poor. They are aware they lack many elements that would make their lives simpler or more comfortable, but rather than consider themselves poor, they are determined to overcome their challenges. They have begun to see prosperity as more than dependant on cattle, but nevertheless require a peaceful and secure environment to determine their own destiny.

... for a wide variety of reasons, including farming, gathering and grazing, but also because it is ass...As a result of intensive cross-cultural interaction and modern education, t... as the Sudd and to provide water for irrigation schemes in northern Sudan and Egypt. Although it w... the United States who had worked with ox plows in Ethiopia and wanted to apply the approach in Ab... for cash is regarded as more dignified than using them as beasts of burden. Acceptance of change sti...

• Journal of International Affairs
• Vol. 52 Nbr. 1, September 1998