Brazos River Bottom cotton producers' knowledge, attitudes and practices of sustainable agriculture /
1) the information sources that promote and encourage
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | 1) the information sources that promote and encourage a concept. Their attitudes toward the environment were that Act respectively) and other legislation which have influenced agriculture in the Brazos River Bottom. Brazos River Bottom and 3) they believed that their current practices were more Brazos River Bottom region. The relationship between the changes in United States agricultural policy are taking cotton producers had knowledge of sustainable practices but, degradation. Brazos River Bottom cotton producers were not economically beneficial than sustainable agriculture environment is undergoing profound changes. Due to an Environmental concerns about agriculture have produced faced with new pressures and relatively new alternatives that governmental regulations were, in some instances, preventing how food and fiber are produced in Texas. Farmers are now in some cases, did not understand sustainable agriculture as increase in environmental and food safety concerns, many involving a random sample of 30 cotton producers in Texas' knowledge,, attitudes, and use of sustainable agriculture legislation in the form of the 1985 and 1990 Farm Bills (Food meeting these pressures, it is important to identify farmers' or discouraging the implementation of sustainable practices, over criticized and over penalized for environmental place. The objective of the study was to assess cotton practices. practices. To accomplish this a survey technique was used practicing sustainable agriculture on a large scale because; producers' knowledge, attitudes, and practice of sustainable production of agricultural commodities and the natural promote more sustainable practices in agriculture. To Security Act and Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade sustainable agriculture were not reaching these farmers, 2) their part to take care of the environment, and 2) were often they ; 1) were partially responsible for and needed to do understand the problems that agricultural producers face in |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Geography". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 182 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm. Also available online. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |