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perhaps the best options are timber farms, mineral development lands, vegetable gardens, orchards, vineyards, and recreational land. These types of agricultural endeavors are much more attractive to small investors: The scale of the land purchase can be tailored to meet the investor’s capital const...
The focus groups allowed us to speak to more farmers and to find out whether they tell different stories in a group as compared to individual interviews. Participants for the focus groups were recruited through an invitation by email distributed by the agri-environmental collective among all its ...
In recent years, China's agricultural land has decreased year by year. In order to alleviate the shortage of land and improve the efficiency of land use, the state has successively issued a number of relevant policies to encourage the transfer of agricultural land management rights. In this con...
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Zoning allows local governments to regulate which areas under their jurisdiction may have real estate or land used for particular purposes. Examples of zoning classifications include residential, commercial, agricultural, industrial, or hotel/hospitality, among other more specific designations. ...
To find a happy medium between yield and quality, the timing of your alfalfa harvesting is also crucial. Improved efficiency in sowing, fieldwork, and harvesting planning thanks to the advancement in agricultural technology has led to higher yields and greater revenues from farming alfalfa....
The authors applied three cooperative game methods (the Shapley value, the Gately point, and Nash–Harsanyi solution) to find possible allocation solutions that maximized the benefits obtained by the countries. In our scenario, we considered using claims problems solutions to propose an initial water...
“cascade effect”. Even today a group of 55 families remains openly defiant; refusing to officially sign away the land that the company has planted with rubber. These villagers either want their land returned, or they want to be relocated someplace where there is sufficient agricultural land. ...