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The Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation

Written by admin on Mar 6th, 2010 | Filed under: Agriculture, News
crop_insurance_office The Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation has been a part of Saskatchewan since 1960. When it was first introduced, crop insurance covered 25 areas of the province and insured just three crops. Today insurance is offered province-wide on more than 20 crops with new crops and varieties added yearly. (More History) (more...)

AGRICULTURE INDUSTRIAL

Written by admin on Jun 28th, 2009 | Filed under: News
From the beginning, early in World War II, the movement known as the agricultural green revolution, we witnessed the development of a more than conventional agriculture, as is usually called, would call industrial. This was mainly the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, production of new varieties more attractive appearance and the progressive mechanization of the crop practiced: monoculture. (more...)

Control of natural resources and environment

Written by admin on Jun 3rd, 2009 | Filed under: News

Due to the indiscriminate use of fertilizers and all kinds of chemicals are the following problems in both surface and underground waters:
- Accumulation of nitrates and phosphates, resulting in a loss of portability.
- Eutrophication of inland waters and coastal seas, the increase to harmful levels of organic and inorganic products derived from sewage and agricultural fertilizers, causing severe changes in the characteristics of the medium and oxygen in deep water.
- Salinization of aquifers by over-exploitation of groundwater. (more…)


High energy cost

Written by admin on Jun 1st, 2009 | Filed under: News

Occurs due to the gradual decrease of the energy / energy used in its production, which is disturbing considering the one hand it is fossil fuels, and therefore limited to a specified period of decades, and secondly, that fertilizers, mainly nitrogen, are products of high energy consumption. Thus, nitrogen consumes 15 to 20 termias.kg-1, phosphorus 3 to 15 termias.kg-1 and potassium from 1 to 2 termias.kg-1, and these fertilizers are 20% to 50% of farm inputs from outside the sector and respond to 24% of total energy consumption of the farm.


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