Zhao, et., al. (2018) Vegetable is one of the most important food items in people’s daily diet, because people obtain essential nutrients from vegetables, which they cannot get from other food. Eating vegetables is a part of people’s daily life and therefore, they pay so much attention to the quality of vegetables they buy and consume. Vegetable quality has to do with the freshness of the product among the diversity of their varieties, their nutritional values, hygiene standards, and the level of chemical residues that is deemed acceptable for human consumption without adverse effects on health etc. In the past, most Chinese consumers were concerned only about the freshness and diversity of vegetable varieties. Until a few years ago, they did …show more content…
The sales of fruits and vegetables require special marketing method because such produce have ripening and storage issues unlike grains. So, various marketing methods are required for quick and effective sale of such produces, through middleman or on-farm stall, or quick set up in the local market to get the produces. Many large cities often have a central produce market that takes in the fruits and vegetables and supplies them to the local supermarkets and restaurant so that they can be sold off quickly. The development of ripening technologies and refrigeration has reduced the problems with getting produce to market in good condition. The commercial agriculture has a six contains key …show more content…
For example, a farmer who is sowing grains to get wheat will need better seeds the cultivation. A farmer will have dairy cows to produce milk. Seeds and animals are two examples of raw materials used in commercial agriculture.
4) Market Force: A producer must be aware of supply and demand of the produce in the market in order to get a good value of sales of the agricultural products. If there is a high demand for a product and low supply, the price will be increased. He should be aware of when to have the harvest and when to sell the product so as to maximize the profit. This may require proper harvesting method and storage facilities of produce depending upon the type of product.
5) Labor: Although commercial farming is extensive form of agriculture much intervened by mechanization, manual inputs are also equally important depending upon the type of produce. People who work on farms provide different types of labor. Labor is needed to plant crops, as well as to harvest them. Due to mechanization, labors are slowly being replaced by machineries however; labors are also required to run these machine tools. There are many areas in the livestock farming where much of the tasks are required to be performed by labors. Moreover, some of the tasks do not suit machine-intervention and require human hands, for instance- grapes and other fruits like banana and peaches are better when harvested
Over the years food has changed from more natural occurring products to quick and easily accessible ones. I for one blame the companies who accept and encourage this. From the previous essay, it also provides a series of questions for which we should be analyzing our food: “How fresh is it? How far was it transported? How pure or clean is it?” (Berry). Simply, we need to be more aware about our food. Food used to be only grown. There was no way
with row crops or with livestock. We need to understand the industry, and in doing so, we will
Farmer markets have always been around and a strong reason to believe that they will still be around long after our time. There are several reasons why this age old tradition still exitst today and revolves around a very common question, “What does a buyer find important when they are about to buy food to be consumed, or how the produce is grown/manufactured, processed, marketed, and distributed. Supporting farmer markets and ensuring fair trade among the dealer and the seller can help promote healthier lives while building stronger communities. There are several reasons to support a community’s farmer market event because buying true locally grown food can allows the buyer to have options to food that is picked fresh and tastes better than what is sold in the supermarkets. Another benefit to farmers markets is that the food is sustainable, flavorful, supports local farms, and also in some areas, part of the proceeds goes to the unfortunate within that community. With the addition of the food generally being more flavorful, locally grown food is adapted to the climate in which it was grown, and can remain fresh longer than that of an imported produce grown in a different climate. Final...
Agriculture—it’s something that not very many people know much about. However, it is important for us to survive. Almost everything in our everyday lives is agriculture-related, from the food you eat to the clothes you wear.
...and 17 human studies conducted in the United States and Europe to compare pesticide residues, antibiotic resistance and vitamin and nutrient levels in organic and conventionally produced foods. The study confirms consumers who eat organic fruits and vegetables can significantly reduce pesticide concentrations in their bodies.
Factory Farming is a very controversial topic. Factory Farming “is a large, industrial operation that raises large numbers of animals for food. Over 99% of farm animals in the U.S. are raised in factory farms, which focus on profit and efficiency at the expense of animal welfare”. While factory farming brings many problems such as food safety risks, abusing antibiotic, and replacing independent farmers. This type of farming helps increase food production, lowers business costs, encourages technological development, and ETC. Which in return helps the public in a greater good.
Crops need nutrients and fertilizer, just like people might take vitamins to help them stay strong and healthy. Farmers test the soil to determine just which nutrients are needed in each field. Wheat is planted with a drill, which is pulled by a tractor. A drill makes a “furrow”; the farmer opens the center of the furrow, drops in a line of seeds, and then covers the seeds with a thin layer of soil. Wheat is harvested with a self-propelled machine called a “combine”. The combine shakes and beats the wheat seeds out of the heads and separates the kernels from all the other plant materials. The kernels are moved into a grain tank on the combine. Many wheat producers work with custom harvesters to get their wheat out of the field and into the bin. There “harvesters for hire” travel the country throughout harvest season- April to September. Aft...
The idea of the family farm has been destroyed by large food corporations. As discussed in class, industrial farming typically leads to the mass produ...
Farmers market produces are known for their fresh and high quality as well as their prices.
In the spring and summer, farmers dealt with weeds, sheared sheep, cut and stored hay, and worked on the lord’s land and gardens. They also harvested crops in late summer. In autumn, their job was to reap, thresh, and store grain. They also plowed the fields and planted seeds for the next harvest. Farmers also had to kill livestock to supply food such as in the winter with pigs (Nardo 25, Bishop 234, Bishop 112, Macdonald 18, 19). In the work of farmers, most of the supplies they produced was given to the vassal and monarch while they only got a small amount leftover (Nardo 25). To do their work, farmers had specific ways and tools to help them do their job. Farmers had an assortment of tools and equipment to use to help them farm. When it is time to plant seeds for the next harvest, farmers use a plow to make the soil ready to be sowed. Wheeled plows are used on sandy soil and moulboard plows that are pulled by oxen or horses are used to plow soil with lots of clay in it. Wooden rakes are then used after the soil is plowed to harrow or drag soil over the seeds to cover them (Hunt and Lapworth
In General, demand, supply and price are the major components of the economy in both competitive and non-competitive markets. Exchanging goods is occurring everyday and everywhere in the world so in order to maximise profit and the use of resources, companies have to know approximately the quantity of goods that customers require. This short essay will discuss the market mechanism in general and particular in food market in the United Kingdom.
A lot of factors affect changing scenario of crop production, for example, lower agricultural productivity of certain crops, costly and inadequate supply of inputs, reduced crop varieties, low level of production diversification, high level of land fragmentation, reduced indigenous and communal farming practices
As agriculture has become more intensive, farmers have become capable of producing higher yields using less labour and less land. Growth of the agriculture has not, however, been an unmixed blessing. It, like every other thing, has its pros and cons. Topsoil depletion, groundwater contamination, the decline of family farms, continued neglect of the living and working conditions for farm labourers, increasing costs of production, and the disintegration of economic and social conditions in rural communities. These are the cons of the new improved agriculture.
farm where the food is grown to make sure the agriculturist is following all the rul...
How is the important of food production? That agriculture is one of the most essential means of producing food is realized easily when we think of the types of things that we eat. The rice or wheat that we eat comes from the land. Even potatoes and other roots or vegetables and even leaves such as tea, as well as the fruits that men eat are the products of the soil that covers the earth. In fact, everything that we eat, except meat, fish and other kinds of flesh comes from the land, and what grows on the land is part of agriculture. Even the sugar, oil, coffee and other beverages that we use are products of plants that grow on land. In the same way, many of the medicines that we use is made of plants that grow in various parts of the