Crops

A crop is a plant or animal product that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence. Crops may refer either to the harvested parts or to the harvest in a more refined state. Most crops are cultivated in agriculture or aquaculture. A crop may include macroscopic fungus (e.g. mushrooms), or alga. Most crops are harvested as food for humans or fodder for livestock. Some crops are gathered from the wild (including intensive gathering, e.g. ginseng). Important non-food crops include horticulture, floriculture and industrial crops. Horticulture crops include plants used for other crops (e.g. fruit trees). Floriculture crops …

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WGCS: Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists · 24 July 2024 English

The "Blueprint to Repair Australia's Landscapes" is a comprehensive report that outlines a strategic approach for a 30-year investment aimed at restoring the health, productivity, and resilience of Australia's natural …

landowners to demonstrate innovations such as new crops, grazing techniques and irrigation technology. Partnership without a permanent change in land use (i.e., from crops to pasture, or pasture to trees) and in most cases


NITI Aayog: National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) · 22 July 2024 English

The economic reforms under way and the economic & institutional reforms on the agenda for the next few years, will sustain growth of per capita GDP at 7% during the …

allied products is critical to creation of for new crops and non-crop agriculture. Some of the Southern states Picking Workers(Tea, Cotton, Tobacco, othr commercial crops) 1.2 Sweeping / Cleaning Workers 0.9 Packaging Labourers excessive consumption of impure water intensive crops like sugar and polished rice & wheat to less water Fertiliser, Water & electricity and on water intensive crops, are resulting in contamination of drinking water Water use by industry, commerce and water intensive crops like sugar, rice and wheat must be charged to reflect


HPA: Water Policy Association · 22 July 2024 English

Water Peace, and the Future: An Interconnected Journey Water is the essence of life, vital for the sur- vival of humans, animals, and plants. [...] The rela- tionship between water, …

make the use of treated wastewater to irrigate crops safe, transparent and accessible to farmers: the


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 18 July 2024 English

In this integrated cost-benefit analysis, the Nature-Based Infrastructure (NBI) Global Resource Centre demonstrates the potential of ecosystem-based adaptation to stabilize hydrology and ensure a reliable water and energy supply in …

area, supplying 85% of the country’s vegetable crops. Nature also thrives in the 25 protected wilderness


World Bank Group · 18 July 2024 English

Financial sector reforms are part of the strategies that countries follow to exit from fragility, but the content and focus of these reforms and the priority they are given relative …

infrastructure, and neglect of important cash crops added to the economic shock: real GDP is estimated


NCAER: National Council of Applied Economic Research · 18 July 2024 English

The development of the Punjab economy, as driven by the evolution of the GR and its impacts on the wider economy, has resulted in a mixed picture regarding growth of …

production and income generation associated with other crops, relative to the safety of growing wheat and rice acted as a barrier to switching. Many potential crops that could be part of a diversification effort also agriculture, diversification into less water-intensive crops, or into higher-value-added activities such as animal fertilizer and credit to increase the yields of these crops. A vision document cannot be expected to provide effective long-run policy, especially if the new crops are higher-value-added, or meet national nutritional


World Bank Group · 18 July 2024 English

EAPGIL’s mission is to generate evidence on what works—and does not—to promote gender equality in East Asia and Pacific and to translate evidence into better policies and programs. EAPGIL adopts …

Farming Groups 9% Cash Crop Production 15% Sale of Crops 9% Agricultural Implements 20%What Have We Learned or granary Plot leased out Plan to invest in new crops ARB is tilling parcel Plan to increase tilled area


UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 18 July 2024 English

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is supporting Brazil with the establishment of green spaces and farms in and around cities. The process is known as urban and peri-urban agriculture. …

and teaches citizens how to plant and cultivate crops in their homes. His message resonates: it's not


World Bank Group · 17 July 2024 English

Cambodia has recorded impressive economic growth and improvements in social well-being in the last two decades, and it aspires to become an upper-middle income country by 2030 and a high-income …

negative impacts from climate change on staple crops in the entire region. Water supply is currently livelihood infrastructure to raise livestock or store crops. Figure 4. PBCRG Investments by type Sources: smallholder farmers to water so they can irrigate their crops. Still, the subnational governments’ capacity to


World Bank Group · 17 July 2024 English

research 20 Agriculture, fishing, and forestry Crops 20 20 20 Industry and trade Agro-industry, marketing non-plantation food crops, comprising rice, maize, fruits, vegetables and other crops that are primarily production. Traditional commercial crops (export agriculture crops) include cinnamon, pepper, cocoa, and medium land holdings as well. Plantation crops—coconut, rubber and tea— are cultivated in large non-plantation crops are grown under irrigated conditions while plantation and export agriculture crops are grown


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