If policy makers want to see the end of the stubble burning, they have to shed their political differences and come up with a road map which factors in the inability of farmers to bear straw management costs.
slash-and-burn agriculture, method of cultivation in which forests are burned and cleared for planting. Slash-and-burn agriculture is often used by tropical-forest root-crop farmers in various parts of the world, for animal grazing in South and Central America, and by dry-rice cultivators in the forested hill country of Southeast Asia. The ash provides some fertilization, and the plot is relatively free of weeds. After several years of cultivation, fertility declines and weeds increase. Then, as traditionally practiced by indigenous peoples and subsistence farmers, the area would be left fallow and reverted to a secondary forest of bush. Cultivation would shift to
d german courts appear to have caught up with the europe s biggest carmaker prosecutors have charge of the seal of 5 thugs and 2 other top executives with fraud over the diesel scandal but if it too little too late. also on the show slash and burn agriculture ether felton s of hector s a forest in madagascar for a year and eventually makes for worse farmland. in the world the biggest black sea exporter had. been hit by falling prices but kenyan producers hope making
right next to me, can you see him? darren: right here. anthony: oh wow. patricia: oh, he s really right next to me. hello. anthony: the area provides essential habitat for the golden bamboo lemur. a species dr. wright discovered here in 1986. and the greater bamboo lemur, previously thought extinct. patricia: there s only 500 of these in the wild in the whole world. anthony: wow, really? what s the biggest pressure on the population? patricia: slash and burn agriculture. some places they re hunted. darren: here, no, this guy. patricia: oh. he is, oh, look at it. oh, how beautiful. oh, that s so nice. oh. darren: whoa. he s pissing on you, tom. he s taking a leak right now. patricia: yeah, watch. anthony: hopefully it s not an editorial statement. darren: yeah. [ laughter ] patricia: look, this is the kind of bamboo shoot that the lemurs love. it s full of protein and it s
right next to me. hello. anthony: the area provides essential habitat for the golden bamboo lemur. a species dr. wright discovered here in 1986. and the greater bamboo lemur, previously thought extinct. patricia: there s only 500 of these in the wild in the whole world. anthony: wow, really? what s the biggest pressure on the population? patricia: slash and burn agriculture. some places they re hunted. darren: here, no, this guy. patricia: oh. he is, oh, look at it. oh, how beautiful. oh, that s so nice. oh. darren: whoa. he s pissing on you, tom. he s taking a leak right now. patricia: yeah, watch. anthony: hopefully it s not an editorial statement. darren: yeah. [ laughter ] patricia: look, this is the kind of bamboo shoot that the lemurs love. it s full of protein and it s full of cyanide.