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Vast tracts of land which are suitable for growing grazing grasses or trees, but little else, have been torn up to make way for cotton, peanut or coffee plantations. The result is soil that becomes poor in humus and loses its cohesiveness
In Brazil many of the abandoned coffee lands are so ruined that they cannot be restored to crop production or the humus content of the soil is seriously reduced. Coffee plantations are always on the march, grabbing new land and leaving behind eroded soils. Many of the lands of the Taureg people, who have led a nomadic life for centuries on the edge of the Sahara, have been taken over to grow export crops like peanuts for European markets. Bad farming techniques are turning the marginal land into desert
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In order to minimize land degradation due to cash crop production that usually takes toll over soil resources, including crucial nutrients and humus, complementary refilling of the land with cheaper o...
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Areas with high population density tend to couple subsistence farming with cash crops. The practice not only helps farmers in sustaining themselves during fluctuations in cash crop prices, but it also...
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In a bid to address the grave problem of agricultural land-degradation due to cash crop production, extensive land usage can be employed. The agricultural land must be increased to help the used land ...
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What about developing a technique or plant that is acceptable to using hydroponics. Instead of relying on stripping the land, developing a plant that can be water held and submerged. Since Brazil has ...
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As cash crops generally utilize huge amount of nutrients of the soil, adequate drainage for the agricultural land is highly called for. In absence to proper drainage to agriculture land, excessive amo...
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