Conservation Agriculture and Smallholder Farmers
Discussion Points
- What has caused small farms in Paraguay to fall behind in conservation agriculture practices?
- On the other side what has aided medium to large farms to find success with conservation agriculture practices?
- What factors can lead to farmers (especially smallholder farmers) being skeptical of conservation agriculture at first?
- What could be done to help farmers transition to conservation agriculture practices with more success?
- What does conservation agriculture look like in your home area? What are the trends?
2 comments:
I feel the government should help assist them more so they can have better practices in their farming.
We are fortunate in the U.S. that the government has made a huge commitment to conservation by budgeting millions of dollars for that purpose and setting up Natural Resource and Conservation Service (NRCS) offices in every county (in Iowa, anyway). I am not sure what it would take for Paraguay to make that kind of commitment.
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