With the help of this money, members of the Malingo women's group could carry out collective farming and trading in
food crops (palm oil, garri, food vending, etc.) within and out of Fako Division.
The urea requirement includes 4,000,752 tons for
food crop sector, 11,304 tons for animal husbandry sector, 118,488 tons for fishery sector and 1,194,648 tons for the plantation sector.
Internally, government resources devoted to cash crops should be shifted to
food crops. Any researcher will tell you that enormous amounts of resources are devoted, wastefully, to cash crops.
"The widespread effect of air pollution on
food crop production is a prime example of the linkage that exists between the health and vitality of our economy and our environment," argues Dr.
The new regulations will however not compel smallholder growers of
food crops to become part of growers' associations.
To his, and the RSS farmers' wing Bharatiya Kisan Sangh's pleasant surprise, the Gujarat government replied that it would not allow field trials for GM
food crops.
Plant breeding technology has great impact as breeding of micronutrient dense staple
food crops can deliver most of the micronutrients.
Permanent cover crops are appropriate in orchards, vineyards and border areas never planted with
food crops. Keeping these areas in mixed flowering species--perennials such as clovers, or annuals that reseed themselves such as crucifers--protects the soil, supports pollinators and encourages insect diversity.
Underutilised
food crops (also called neglected or indigenous crops) are plant species that are little used, or which were grown traditionally but have fallen into disuse.
'In the future, we could see negative indirect land use changes if we increase production of biofuels from
food crops very rapidly and significantly,' Borjesson said.
In the future, scientists could insert genes for these insect-killing proteins into important
food crops, such as grains, so that plants produce their own insecticides, the researchers suggest.
"Rather than using
food crops to produce biofuels, in the future we may be able to use algae, trees, the inedible 'woody' parts of plants, and agricultural waste.