Agri-business

Plans are underway to open a chain of huge, agri-business farm centers that could be a far greater threat to rural America than anything the big chains or the federal government have caused in the last 50 years. [...] Financial backing for the building of these 40-acre, agri-business, all-engulfing raids on rural America was announced by Litton Industries, now involved in an antitrust suit.

These county reports were distributed to farmers, assessors, credit agencies, county planning groups, agri-business personnel, Extension agents, vocational agriculture teachers, administrators and individuals with an interest in the land market.

The Agriculture Committee considers legislation affecting farmers, agri-business, the preservation of farmlands and the availability of capital for establishing new farms and enlarging existing ones.

As in the Spanish and American periods, public lands were made available for favoured private interests in agri-business, including foreign interests (using leasing arrangements to avoid the constitutional prohibition on foreign acquisition of land).

The following broad categories of machinery users can be identified: / ― Estates, plantations, and large agri-businesses that purchase their machinery outright or with credit from commercial banks, and have their own maintenance and repair facilities; [...]

However, cattle in such areas – for example, in modern Iraq – have as a rule either been exploited more for meat and draft than for milk and so exhibit expectedly low dairy production, or have been given supplementary and enhanced feeds, and tended according to modern agri-business standards, together hampering meaningful comparison of modern ethnographic reports with data in accounts from third millennium Mesopotamia.

Farms are often owned by large companies and are run as agri-businesses which specialise for contract farming.

Empowerment is not a moment of epiphany. It sometimes involves a simple direction of helping people help themselves. In Punjab, for example, when we started contract farming for our agri-business, we deliberately involved the women folk in the villages to work in the fields.