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Sep. 18, 1989: Business Notes:Agriculture
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Sep. 18, 1989 Torching The Amazon
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BUSINESS, Page 65
Business Notes
AGRICULTURE
This Is No Way to Grow
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<p> For nearly 50 years, the U.S. has followed an agricultural
policy of showering farmers with subsidies and encouraging them
to use plenty of chemical pesticides and fertilizers. U.S.
farmers are among the most productive in the world, but their
techniques are harming taxpayers and the environment. Chemical
runoff is polluting groundwater. At the same time, rich
Government subsidies that encourage farmers to devote too much
land to a single crop have contributed to topsoil erosion.
American agricultural policy should be changed to support
"environmentally benign" farming methods, declared a study
published last week by the National Academy of Sciences. The
report urged the Government to encourage farmers to adopt such
techniques as crop rotation and mechanized weeding, which the
study found to be as productive as chemical methods.
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