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The Farm Terraces.(Poem)
THE FARM TERRACES Beautiful merciless work around the slopes of Earth terraces cut by curt hoe at the orders of hunger or a pointing lord. Levels eyed up to rhyme copied from grazing animals round the steeps of Earth, balconies filtering water down stage to stage of drop. Wind-stirred colours of crop swell between walked bunds ...
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...volcano, there is the wonderfully clean and cool air, and great walking trails along the ridge tops or threading through farm terraces. The hotels up high, close to the mountain itself, are all quite basic, but cater to Western tastes in top sheets and...
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...approaches the problem in four ways, says acting General Manager Marlin Petermann: --Conservation involves the building of farm terraces and similar structures. --Upstream storage dams collect floodwater and allow it to be released slowly. --Downstream...
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...zones. For example, the Dai and the Zhuang live in areas of low elevation and cultivate rice and vegetables. The Hani farm terraces on the mid-elevations of the mountainsides, while the Yao and the Lahu settle higher where they practice shifting agriculture...
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...sat Ken Kreshel, who left farming two years ago to devote himself full time to contract conservation work such as building farm terraces. Kreshel, 62, says it would be cheaper to pay farmers not to grow crops than it is to subsidize an oversupply. "Right...
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...zones. For example, the Dai and the Zhuang live in areas of low elevation and cultivate rice and vegetables. The Hani farm terraces on the mid-elevations of the mountainsides, while the Yao and the Lahu settle higher where they practice shifting agriculture...
- Just This One Time, What Did Japan Learn From Konso? Terraces.
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...water, quite natural in a region where the rainfall is on the heavy side. Japan being what it is (second richest), the farm terraces were never an economic lifeline to their cultivators as that in Konso. Especially in modern times, agriculture in Japan...
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