agriculture

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But the scale of the exodus has become industrial over the last decade as Nepal's agriculture and tourism industries have stagnated.

From Barron's

The deal announced this month has rattled India's powerful farmers' unions, who argue that cheap US imports would throttle local producers in a country where agriculture employs more than 700 million people.

From Barron's

“Family agriculture is in crisis, and American farmers and ranchers are fighting for their livelihoods,” says National Farmers Union President Rob Larew.

From The Wall Street Journal

Still, in 1965, as agriculture of all kinds was being crowded out by subdivisions, California enacted the Williamson Act to give tax breaks to landowners who kept their property dedicated to agriculture.

From Los Angeles Times

Morocco, where agriculture employs about a third of the working-age population, has seen seven consecutive years of drought.

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