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Agriculture in sentence

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She loves agriculture and wants to be a high school teacher.
A man came from Java with a new kind of organic agriculture.
I mean, we're the only ones with architecture and agriculture.
And if you fill the cup with local agriculture from small farmers, you have a transformative effect.
What about the origins of agriculture?
And I could just imagine the committees reporting back to them on where agriculture was going to take humanity, at least in the next few hundred years.
For those who do return back to the countryside, they find themselves very welcome locally, because with the knowledge, skills and networks they have learned in the cities, with the assistance of the Internet, they're able to create more jobs, upgrade local agriculture and create new business in the less developed market.
We have opportunities in agriculture, like I said.
And there are ways that we can address this type of agriculture by using less fertilizer, maybe precision fertilizing.
And trying some sustainable agriculture such as perennial wheatgrass, which has much longer roots than the six inches of a corn plant, that can keep the nitrogen on the soil and keep the soil from running off.
To change the type of agriculture in the US is going to be many big steps.
This is important, because in China in 1997, the Yellow River actually went dry for nine months causing severe loss of agriculture output and pain and loss to society.
And finally, there's deforestation, and there's emission of methane from agriculture.
However, this is not a good representation of our federal agriculture policy.
If we were to take the model here, the diagram of that particular garden, and sort of transpose it onto our federal agriculture policy, we'd get this: billions of billions of dollars going to support just a handful of commodity crops with just that tiny little bit at the top for fruits and vegetables.
Fungal infections have devastated agriculture crops.
Men who actually work in agriculture have much higher levels of atrazine.
This map shows the presence of agriculture on planet Earth.
If we look at this carefully, we find it's about 40 percent of the Earth's land surface is devoted to agriculture, and it's 60 times larger than all the areas we complain about, our suburban sprawl and our cities where we mostly live.
So we're using an enormous amount of land for agriculture, but also we're using a lot of water.
We already use about 50 percent of the Earth's fresh water that's sustainable, and agriculture alone is 70 percent of that.
So we use a lot of water, a lot of land for agriculture.
We also use a lot of the atmosphere for agriculture.
Usually when we think about the atmosphere, we think about climate change and greenhouse gases, and mostly around energy, but it turns out agriculture is one of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases too.
If you look at carbon dioxide from burning tropical rainforest, or methane coming from cows and rice, or nitrous oxide from too many fertilizers, it turns out agriculture is 30 percent of the greenhouse gases going into the atmosphere from human activity.
So we have this incredible presence today of agriculture dominating our planet, whether it's 40 percent of our land surface, 70 percent of the water we use, 30 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions.
So without a doubt, agriculture is the single most powerful force unleashed on this planet since the end of the ice age.
It's not that agriculture's a bad thing.
We have to provide food and feed and, yeah, fiber and even biofuels to something like seven billion people in the world today, and if anything, we're going to have the demands on agriculture increase into the future.
Instead, we maybe want to freeze the footprint of agriculture and farm the lands we have better.
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