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Need to feed

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    Publisher Milling & Grain
    Year of publication 2018 May
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    Medium Digital
    Edition1
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    Economics & commerce > Feeding the World

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    food security

    Scope & contentBy Chris Jackson, Export Manager UK TAG

    Over the decades techniques have been developed to mitigate the effects of the climate in the northern hemisphere. For instance, the use of glass houses and poly tunnels to grow sensitive vegetable crops, and in dry countries the use of irrigation, for instance,to allow cotton and rice to be grown using irrigation techniques in Australia.

    Farms had to become bigger to become more efficient and productive. I am now referring to farming in the UK and Northern Europe, and what is referred to as “The New World”, the Americas, Australia and Southern Africa....Read more.

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