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| - | * Satisfy three hungers: hunger local rural population with the livestock, hunger of urban population and that of machines which need raw materials | + | |
| - | * Holding tends to increase in size (from small family units of france and switzerland to collective farms of russia and ranches of US and Argentina) | + | * Holding tends to increase in size (from small family units of france and switzerland to collective farms of russia and ranches of US and Argentina) |
| - | * monoculture is the rule, even rotations are unknown and no attempt is made to create natural humus or manure or waste recycling | + | * monoculture is the rule, even rotations are unknown and no attempt is made to create natural humus or manure or waste recycling |
| - | * dominance of the machine | + | * dominance of the machine |
| - | * artificial manure used widely | + | * artificial manure used widely |
| - | * diseases and hence pesticides on the rise | + | * diseases and hence pesticides on the rise |
| - | * food preservation processes is a norm | + | * food preservation processes is a norm |
| - | * science a dominant force to help production | + | * science a dominant force to help production |
| - | * loss of soil fertility highlighted by the growing menace of soil erosion | + | * loss of soil fertility highlighted by the growing menace of soil erosion |