farmer是什么意思？

Mr.Kibara and hundreds of other farmers have been removing some of their tea bushes and planting a new kind of tea developed by the Tea Research Foundation of Kenya.

All appears to be well, but the farmers who planted the bushes are worried.

Supermarkets offer more variety than ever, and there are over four times as many farmers' markets in the U.S. as there were 20 years ago.

While the practice carries serious health risks for many, those dangers are outweighed by the social and economic gains for poor urban farmers and consumers who need affordable food.

When this water is used for agricultural irrigation, farmers risk absorbing disease-causing bacteria, as do consumers who eat the produce raw and unwashed.

Those dangers can be addressed with farmer and consumer education, he said, while the free water and nutrients from human waste can help urban farmers in developing countries to escape poverty.

In some cases, water is so scarce that farmers break open sewage pipes transporting waste to local rivers.

In poor, dry regions, untreated wastewater is the only viable irrigation source to keep farmers in business.

Farmers and consumers may be affected by harmful bacteria.

Facing water shortages and escalating fertilizer costs, farmers in developing countries are using raw sewage ( ' , 下 水道污水) to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.

Vernon Bowman, a 75-year-old farmer from rural Indiana, did something that got him sued.

If this were a Hollywood movie, the courageous old Indiana farmer would beat the profit-minded corporation before the credits rolled

If farmers like Bowman are able to use these seeds without paying the designated fee, it will remove the incentives for companies like Monsanto to innovate.

He said "Monsanto should not be able, just because they've got billions of dollars to spend on legal fees, to try to terrify farmers into obeying their agreements by massive force and threats

But Bowman's supporters argue that Monsanto is trying to expand the scope of patents in ways that would enrich big corporations and hurt small farmers.

Allow small farmers to grow genetically modified soybeans

Whether measures should be introduced to protect small farmers.

In the Netherlands, Shell delivers CO2 to farmers who pipe it into their greenhouses, increasing their yield of fruits and vegetables.

Through using CO2, Dutch farmers have been able to

"My vision is for the subsistence farmer," Farrant says.

And not every farmer has the option of going grass-fed.

Joseph has learned that a farmer has to have a certain mindset to successfully convert.

Reading magazines like The Stockman Grass Farmer and Graze, he got hooked on the idea of grass-fed agriculture.

The idea that all energy and wealth comes from the sun really intrigued him He thought the shorter the distance between the sun and the end product, the higher the profit to the farmer.

Usually a farmer will get to the point where financially, what they're doing is not working.