Land grounds for concern at touchy topic here in germany is Intensive Farming take a train ride across the country and youll pass field off the field of crops often all the same the big forests long gone monocultures so void of biodiversity that even many animals have moved to the big cities for food but other factory farms that Dot The Landscape a solution to feeding the planet and its Exploding Population or just another way big business can squeeze profits out of the ground. These tomatoes are sold it weekly Farmers Markets or over the internet. For workers to hectors. This fruit and vegetable farmer recently took over the business she would like to buy more land but the prices of increased tenfold in just twenty. Heres Price Cutting going though david these are
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biodiversity a vast range of plants and animals live in the forest habitats in fact 80 percent of the worlds terrestrial species inhabit them since time immemorial they also have provided us with animals to hunt for to eat and wood to burn and build but now the worlds forests are under massive pressure from Logging Agriculture and pollution thats our topic today on made the forest lets start in germany where foresters face problems ranging from erosion to drought to storms and flooding and insect pests around the country water tables are falling and the Forestry Business in some places is on the ropes changing c
29 year old dairy farmer in the northern states have a harsh time in germany his land covers some $170.00 hector s and he works together with his father an employee and an upright. this cow shed was built 3 years ago and complies with the latest german regulation on animal welfare. will they shut for $150.00 cows at a cost of $6000.00 euros per account so that means forking out around a 1000000 euros just in order to make money from the cows which is really working at the moment we get $0.34 for a liter of milk but the production costs are much higher so unfortunately at the moment it s a loss making business. the farmer says increasing environmental protection regulation is hurting his business soon he ll have to spread manure with a hose instead of this muck spreader the purpose of the new rules is to reduce the spread of the pollutant omonia.
elsewhere and that will bring more deforestation livestock farming doesn t look set to disappear any time soon. with us brits many forecasts indicate that global beef consumption will continue to rise for decades to come. that production has to come from somewhere. all the studies suggest that the place with the greatest potential for meeting this demand is brazil and the amazon region. so we have a choice where do we produce we say it should be done on land that s already been deforested and on those areas we can increase productivity by a factor of 237 or even 10. days because. in the amazon alone there are an estimated 12000000 hector s of degraded pastor land but office lots of potential for sustainable and profitable land management.
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