Relying on Agriculture Specialists and Advisors

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) administers food assistance programs that help provide food for low to no income families. It is their goal to increase food security and reduce hunger by increasing access to food, a healthful diet, and nutrition education for low-income Americans (Caswell, 2013, para. 1). Some of the current nutrition assistance programs include “the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)”(Caswell, 2013, para. 1). SNAP will be the primary nutrition assistance program of the paper at hand. No matter how morally good it is to try to help reduce hunger and increase food security within the United States, there are still many questions regarding issues with SNAP. This paper will be discussing why there is such a strong support for the program, how it helps the United States as a whole, problems with the program, and why some people are against SNAP.

Over the years agriculture has nearly diminished from the workforce. Why is this happening? In fact, ever since the Industrial Revolution’s promises of “big city success” agriculture has taken a hit. Agriculture has been a foundation for the infrastructure of the United States since it’s creation. Agricultural careers are a necessity for the nation. It is important through the history, from whom it affects, the effects on the environment and people, and to find a solution to the loss of this core element.

The first reason of why agriculture is a better way of life, is because according to document 1 farmers were less violent. Hunters and gatherers on the other hand were in constant state of tribal warfare. This resulted in 25-30% of adult males dying from homicide. Warfare was necessary to keep population density low. This was due to the fact that a certain place only had so much food to support one person. Farmers on the other hand could use a small piece of land and plant crops that could support many people. They do not have to fight over food therefore less war and violence.

From 1880-1906, western farmers were affected by multiple issues that they saw as threats to their way of life. The main threats to the farmers were railroads, trusts, and the government, because these institutions all had the power to drastically affect the ability of the farmers to make profits. Therefore, the farmers were not wrong to feel frustration toward those institutions when the institutions caused the farmers to live lives of increasingly extreme poverty.

The career I would like to pursue would be farming. Farming is not an easy thing to do there are multiple risks you must take. To be a good farmer you must have knowledge of advanced technology and keep up to date with the latest and greatest technology in order to progress and must also have business skills as well as hands on experience on a farm. Farmers salary will never be the same year to year, the market will determine when and how much you get for your product, if there is a surplus of corn form the previous year then the market price will be very low, making your income also low. The median annual income of most farmers and ranchers was about $61,000 in 2010, according to the U.S. bureau of Labor Statistics. The top ten percent of

My entire life I have been on the farm with my dad and grandpa. When I was too little to drive the tractors I would sit and just ride around with them. Now that I am old enough to drive them, I have a lot of experience, and as a farmer working with your family and friends you hire you can take some days off if needed without getting in trouble.

The agriculture industry is one of the most diverse industries in the world. While farming is the main aspect, there is much more behind it. There are studies that take place across the world about crop yield and the influence of pests on crops. These investigations

When I get older, I’m looking at going into farming. Farming is like gambling, one never know if he is going to make money or not. Farming is something I know and like; the education, earnings, and duties are not always easy.

In today’s society things are ever changing; more specifically, with agriculture. The Ag industry is constantly innovating itself to make production that much better. Farmers, ranchers, and agriculturalists in general, are adapting to these new innovations daily. Those employed in the field of agriculture are constantly changing what they do to meet the demands of the growing population. Two hundred years ago, agriculturalists would not have been able to feed the current population. If our producers had not modified their ways, our lives today would be much different.

Agriculture was the most important economic activity in America from the founding of Virginia in 1607 to about 1890. Although farming declined rapidly in relative economic importance in the twentieth century, U.S. agriculture continued to be the most efficient and productive in the world. Its success rested on abundant fertile soil, a moderate climate, the ease of private land ownership, growing markets for farm produce at home and abroad, and the application of science and technology to farm operations.

The above figure presents the world rice exporter market share in 2015, Rice exported by country totalled US $24 billion in 2011, the main country that compete in the world market for exporting rice are Thailand, Vietnam, India and Pakistan where Thailand can be considered as the second biggest rice exporter. The above bar graph represents the major rice export shares from 1998 to 2000. As the world rice kitchen Thailand have exported 26.2% which was the highest during 1998-2000.However, Vietnam ranked the second which exported 15.6% in which 10% lower than Thailand, then follows by India which have exported 11.40% of the total world rice export. Pakistan was the lowest exporter of rice in the world during that period which exported 7.90%. Thailand as the world rice exporter and producer, in 2011, Thailand have exported 10.7 million metric tons and the export’s worth $ 6.43 billion USD where Vietnam was the second rice exporter in the world market which have exported the volume of 7.2 million metric tons, hence; following by India which have exported the volume of 4.3 million metric tons.

In agricultural industry, along with vegetables, fruit production also plays a vital role. For better yield of fruit, detection of fruit diseases at early stage is necessary for taking preventive measures, so as to reduce the loss of farmer. For detecting the disease an earlier approach was to hire an expert which was time consuming for large farms, hence to reduce human efforts and to improve the yield of fruits we are proposing a system which includes smart farming technique .In the proposed system image processing is used for getting the required output, we are using Open Cv library which is an image processing software. Images are classified and mapped to respective diseases on basis of following features: color, texture, morphology, structure of hole and odour. E-NOSE is used which is a

India has a second rank in the creation of organic product. So organic products assume imperative part for ranchers furthermore for horticulture. There are numerous applications related with picture handling for agribusiness. Like gathering, evaluating, distinguishing harm and ailment, plant development checking are as under:

Table 5 shows different agriculture research activities conducted in the selected ARIs in Tanzania. Results indicates that researchers are confined in farming system and extension with 50.57%(32) followed by crop and soil science management with 39.68(25) and food science & technology with38.10%(23).This results is the justification of the National Agriculture Policy (2013) goals and other public-private partnership initiatives by the Government of Tanzania which aim to enhance crop productivity and profitability in a sustainable manner in order to ensure food security and poverty reduction. In addition, results also indicate that Tanzania through ARIs is committed to strengthen pest and disease surveillance as well as to provide system and control mechanisms in agriculture activities (URT, 2013). However, the results show that ARIs are diversified into different areas of agriculture research activities in order to complement their major mandate which were established to undertake.

India has a second rank in the creation of organic product. So organic products assume imperative part for ranchers furthermore for horticulture. There are numerous applications related with picture handling for agribusiness. Like gathering, evaluating, distinguishing harm and ailment, plant development checking are as under: