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Production of some products is highly concentrated in a few countries, China, the leading producer of wheat and ramie in 2013, produces 95% of the world's ramie fiber but only 17% of the world's wheat. Products with more evenly distributed production see more frequent changes in the ranking of the top producers.
Agriculturists of today are involved with many issues, including producing food, creating healthier food, managing the environmental impact of agriculture, distribution of agriculture, recreation surfaces (sports fields, golf courses, and parks), and extracting energy from plants.
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Subsistence farming continues today in large parts of rural Africa, [6] and parts of Asia and Latin America. In 2015, about 2 billion people (slightly more than 25% of the world's population) in 500 million households living in rural areas of developing nations survive as "smallholder" farmers, working less than 2 hectares (5 acres) of land. [7]
Traditional agricultural systems, sometimes termed subsistence agriculture, which feed most of the poorest people in the world. These systems are of interest as they sometimes retain a level of integration with natural ecological systems greater than that of industrial agriculture , which may be more sustainable than some modern agricultural ...
Rothamsted Experimental Station is the oldest agricultural research facility in the world. [2] Sir John Lawes School in Harpenden, Herts is named after him. [6] The locality of Lawes, Queensland, in Australia is named after him. The main feature of that locality is the University of Queensland Gatton Campus which specialises in agriculture. [9]
"We weren't the sons and grandsons in a long family line of farmers, so we had to start anew. This turned out to be an advantage" - Hillel [1]. Daniel Hillel (13 September 1930 – 9 March 2021) was an Israeli–American agronomist, researcher and author. [2]
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