• Under Pesticides Management Bill, 2020, the farmers will be compensated in in case of losses of crops due to the use of spurious agrochemicals. (constantcontact.com)
  • This is how our crops are beautiful without any damage to the nature, and thus my conscience is clear," tells Ivan Pidlisniy, farmer-and-beekeeper, while leisurely removing another frame of fresh honey from a beehive. (org.ua)
  • Is it true that with electron-charged water farmers need less agrochemicals to grow their crops? (customizedwatersystems.com)
  • All the more, because these products decide the fate of crops and can make much difference in the lives of farmers. (blogspot.com)
  • Much like anti-biotics are crucial to survival from bacterial infections, agrochemicals are indispensable to fight environmental attacks on crops in the form of insects, pests etc. (blogspot.com)
  • This highlights the fact that a large number of our farmers are either not using agrochemicals to protect crops and boost yields or are not adequately aware about their optimum usage. (blogspot.com)
  • Agrochemicals offer assistance minimize this misfortune by ensuring crops, expanding efficiency and keeping up the quality of the deliver. (alliedacademies.org)
  • This issue is compounded by the unused assortments of crops that agriculturists are developing which are helpless to illnesses and bothers, and thus, necessitate the utilize of agrochemicals. (alliedacademies.org)
  • There's progressing advancement of brief length assortments of crops and related agrochemicals in sub-Saharan Africa. (alliedacademies.org)
  • The answer to many challenges of farmers in Latin America is smaller and nimbler than you may think: Drones can support farmers and large fruit producers to protect their crops, improve their productivity, and achieve greater profitability. (basf.com)
  • The 31-year-old will apply agrochemicals, just like many farmers do to protect their crops. (basf.com)
  • The agrochemical industry tell us all is well, but they also tell us, and the farmers they advise, that all these applications are necessary for growing crops, and that without them food production would collapse. (chinadialogue.net)
  • At best, 40 per cent of crops can be expected to be lost to weeds, disease and insects, and increased use of agrochemicals will exacerbate environmental problems. (newscientist.com)
  • Filipino farmers became aware of GAS as pest of rice in 1986, when it was first reported damaging 300 ha of rice crops in Region 2 (Manila Bulletin, August 25, 1988). (applesnail.net)
  • Meanwhile, an excess of farmers growing bigger crops has created a commodities glut that exceeds demand at home and abroad, lowering net income. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • In response to the criminal complaint, Curuguaty District Criminal Court conducted an investigation and named seven farmers whose soy crops bordered the Colonia as potentially responsible. (escr-net.org)
  • The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the Pesticides Management Bill, 2020, which, the government claims, will regulate the business of pesticides and compensate farmers in case of losses from the use of spurious agro-chemicals. (constantcontact.com)
  • Agrochemicals including pesticides, bio fertilizers and herbicides are crucial to food security in India. (blogspot.com)
  • In India, many farmers went into debt because of the high cost of seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides, and a farmer suicide crisis followed. (civileats.com)
  • Farmers are exposed to a number of health risks, including the "green tobacco sickness", which is caused by nicotine absorbed through the skin from the handling of wet tobacco leaves, exposure to heavy use of pesticides and exposure to tobacco dust. (who.int)
  • The government placed a ban on some agrochemicals since the WHO report came out, but it has not been enforced and the pesticides remain available. (independent.co.uk)
  • Bluecrops from Colombia is led by Johan Sebastian Chavez Mosquera, who comes from a family of farmers and lost his young brother to health problems associated with exposure to pesticides. (worldskills.org)
  • The global call to reduce pesticides residues in food and priority for organically produced agricultural products, make crop scientists` and farmers` interest in organic farming to increase. (scialert.net)
  • Unless we address the root causes of poor farming practices and the extensive use of pesticides-which result in low cocoa yields and low incomes for farmers and workers-then labor exploitation and environmental destruction will only persist. (drbronner.com)
  • On January 6, 2011, farmer Ruben Portillo died in transit from a hospital after experiencing severe nausea and fever, allegedly because of his intake of agrochemicals (pesticides and insecticides). (escr-net.org)
  • Paraguayan law requires farmers who use pesticides to establish buffer zones around bordering farms and water sources, standards that the agribusinesses did not meet. (escr-net.org)
  • The current average of yields per hectare is between 10 tonnes and 16 tonnes per hectare while the farmers ought to be harvesting over 30 tonnes according statistics from Rwanda Agricultural and Animal Resources Development Board (RAB). (furtherafrica.com)
  • On the contrary, it turns out that apiary near a farm field is an indicator of eco-friendliness of the modern agricultural methods applied by the farmer. (org.ua)
  • It is a single-window agricultural solution provider, and partners with Indian farmers for progress and prosperity. (indiatimes.com)
  • The Working Committee for the Protection of Farmers' Rights is demanding that the Government intervenes to support domestic agriculture and small farmers, in better marketing, provision of credit facilities and agricultural extension services, distribution of good-quality paddy seed and revival and maintenance of ancient irrigation reservoirs. (newint.org)
  • The Movement for National Land and Agricultural Reform (MONLAR), an alliance of some 70 organizations of farmers, environmentalists and trade unions, has been lobbying against these policy changes for about ten years. (newint.org)
  • Similar strategies to bring hybrid seeds and chemical fertilizers to smallholder farmers in developing countries are still embraced by many agricultural and hunger relief organizations. (civileats.com)
  • Tobacco farmers may also earn less than other farmers in the agricultural sector. (who.int)
  • Nicolás Perez and the Bravos are part of the 'Drones in Agriculture' program by BASF Agricultural Solutions, in a first step aiming to give 8,000 farmers in Latin America access to drone technology within five years. (basf.com)
  • Non-ionic agricultural surfactants have secured the largest share in the agricultural surfactant market due to their unparalleled versatility and compatibility with various agrochemical formulations. (marketsandmarkets.com)
  • Through Fairtrade premium the Union has invested so much in productivity enhancement activity, where we train our farmers on good agricultural processes, processes which have helped them to grow cocoa sustainably and responsibly. (scottishfairtradeforum.org.uk)
  • In particular, activists and other concerned citizens, farmers' groups and peasants' networks have singled out Monsanto, a U.S.-based biotech and agricultural corporation, for its "predatory business and corporate agricultural practices, [which] threaten this generation's health, fertility and longevity. (ipsnews.net)
  • The phenomena of indebtedness will recur," said Sharad Joshi, founder of Shetkari Sanghatana, a leading farmers' rights organization, "as long as the policies to depress agricultural prices continue. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • Policymakers should support innovative agricultural practices that help farmers produce more food while using less resources, which is key to eradicating world hunger while still improving the environment. (iwf.org)
  • During 2019, I also lead the one-year project "Farmer organization, mobilization and political opportunities for sustainable agricultural development in Africa: Towards comparative analysis" , funded by a Formas planning grant. (lu.se)
  • In this project, Chad Boda and I are conducting preliminary research on the mechanisms through which small-scale farmers develop political strategies for fostering more equitable and sustainable agricultural policies, and seek to identify potential collaborators for future research on this topic. (lu.se)
  • Rwandese smallholder farmers growing Irish Potatoes in the Northern and Western regions have requested the government to extend subsidies on agro-chemicals and seeds that are often available at high prices to allow them make profits from the investment. (furtherafrica.com)
  • Considering the average of yields per hectare and the investment cost per hectare, smallholder farmers count low profits. (furtherafrica.com)
  • Agrochemicals, Health, Smallholder farmers. (alliedacademies.org)
  • Smallholder farmers who cannot afford an application by airplane and have no access to tractors, rely on the application with backpack sprayers. (basf.com)
  • La Via Campesina, a global network comprised of over 20 million landless peasants and smallholder farmers, have also denounced the company for disregarding the "social and environmental" impacts of their policies, which include forcing a model of large-scale agri-business on countries where small farmers form the backbone of the food chain. (ipsnews.net)
  • According to the latest IPBES Global Assessment, through land degradation, chiefly from using agrochemicals, the world has lost approximately 8% of total global soil carbon stocks over the last 200 years, reducing productivity in 23% of the global terrestrial area. (euromoney.com)
  • Farmers Review Africa strives to be the main source of information about new products, trends and technologies in agriculture and farm inputs. (furtherafrica.com)
  • The Commissioner disclosed that the State Ministry of Agriculture will sale each bag of 50kg NPK fertiliser to farmers at the cost of five thousand five hundred naira which is less than the price in the market. (adamawadailyreports.com)
  • In our close observation of agriculture, we have observed that a lot of faulty practices are still followed by ignorant farmers who have access to the products but not to an educator. (blogspot.com)
  • The irrigation reservoirs bear witness to the amazing engineering skills of a time when kings considered it their duty to foster domestic agriculture and to protect the interests of the farmer. (newint.org)
  • Benefits of agrochemicals and their impact on agriculture. (alliedacademies.org)
  • Colombian farmers are aging and working in agriculture seems to be turning into a less attractive job option for young people. (basf.com)
  • By maximizing the efficacy of agrochemical applications, surfactants contribute significantly to yield enhancement in this economically significant crop category, making them a preferred choice for precision agriculture in cereals and grains. (marketsandmarkets.com)
  • Chinese farmers are ditching chemical agriculture for reasons of personal health, ecological protection and economic motives, propped up by a range of state supports. (theconversation.com)
  • The Colonia is inhabited by small-scale farmers who are dedicated to campesino agriculture for their own consumption and sale. (escr-net.org)
  • In India, where most of the farmers are illiterate and not even equipped to correctly decipher the directions or instructions for using the products listed on the product bottles, reaching out to them becomes all the more important. (blogspot.com)
  • Similar diseases are wiping out thousands of farmers in parts of Central America, India and Egypt - and agrochemicals are widely blamed there as well. (independent.co.uk)
  • Led by Pooran, researchers from India, Ethiopia and Kenya worked together not only to develop improved, drought-tolerant chickpeas that would thrive in semiarid conditions, but also to ensure these varieties would be growing in farmers' fields across Africa within a decade. (generationcp.org)
  • As a result, some farmers end up using low quality inputs and agro-chemicals leading them to losses. (furtherafrica.com)
  • Unfortunately, even the farmers who can afford the agro-inputs have minimal profits since the investment cost is often too high. (furtherafrica.com)
  • Programmes give big agribusiness control over farmers, dictating exactly how they farm and what inputs they use. (gmwatch.org)
  • The agrochemical industry and agribusiness, the junk food industry and the pharmaceutical industry profit while the nation gets sicker and poorer. (deccanchronicle.com)
  • Since 2005, the land surrounding the Colonia has seen some of Paraguay's biggest agribusiness expansion, principally genetically-modified soy that requires extensive agrochemical fumigation. (escr-net.org)
  • The reagents and factors that are in most agrochemicals are related more to controlling disease and eliminating insects than providing materials for growth needed by the plant. (customizedwatersystems.com)
  • Then, in the 1960s, several new invasive insects appeared in Israel, and, at the same time, insecticide drift from nearby cotton farmers began killing the beneficial insects. (grist.org)
  • She pointed to opposition from grocery manufacturers, farmers and agrochemical companies like Monsanto. (durangoherald.com)
  • The foundation, they report, is committed to the idea that farmers in Africa will benefit from an input- and market-intensive approach, and may therefore be hampering efforts to encourage and support agroecology, a solution many point to as an important lever for reducing hunger and addressing climate change in that part of the world. (civileats.com)
  • The researchers involved in this new study - funded by a Darwin Initiative grant - came together from Trinity and INGOs, BirdLife International and the RSPB, and conducted the work with local farmers, NGOs and academics in Burkina Faso, West Africa. (tcd.ie)
  • Adamawa Exco Approves N550m For Procurement of NPK Fertiliser, Assorted Agro Chemicals For Farmers. (adamawadailyreports.com)
  • Adamawa State Executive Council has approved the purchase of fertilizer and assorted Agro chemicals for the 2020 farming season for farmers in the State. (adamawadailyreports.com)
  • Dr. Garba said that the Executive Council has also approved over one hundred and six million naira for the procurement of fifty two thousand litres of assorted agro chemicals, one thousand unit of fifteen litres sprayers and twenty thousand kilogram of hybrid seed for sale to farmers. (adamawadailyreports.com)
  • Recent studies show that the coca leaf yield per hectare has decreased, probably because farmers are cutting back on fertilizers and agro-chemicals. (unodc.org)
  • There is a real danger that the proposed regulations could make it very difficult for organic farmers or agro-ecologists to continue to operate. (avaaz.org)
  • As the 5,900 organic farmers across Canada can attest, the long-term benefits of transitioning to organic far outweigh the initial transition costs. (organiccouncil.ca)
  • The COVID pandemic has forced organic farmers to confront many tremendous difficulties throughout the supply chain, making the fund all the more useful for farmers wishing to transition to organic. (organiccouncil.ca)
  • Steffanie Scott speaks with a vendor at the Beijing Organic Farmers' Market. (theconversation.com)
  • This is when many suicides occur, says MK Jayatissa, a Polonnaruwa paddy farmer and co-convenor of the Working Committee for Protection of Farmers' Rights (WCPFR). (newint.org)
  • The result has been an epidemic of more than 300,000 farmers suicides because of the debt due to dependence on costly chemicals and food, and a disease epidemic due to industrial and junk food. (deccanchronicle.com)
  • This is the real answer to the ecological crises, farmers' suicides and the disease epidemic we face. (deccanchronicle.com)
  • On 13 August 2000 Polonnaruwa paddy farmers gathered together for a huge demonstration in the town of Hingurakgoda. (newint.org)
  • Many of those same critics point to agroecology, a holistic approach in which farmers work with ecological systems to minimize environmental impact, as the counterpoint to the industrial system. (civileats.com)
  • Resultantly, many agrochemicals companies have come up with new products to enable farmers boost crop production, safety and quality. (blogspot.com)
  • Their proposal involves a crop sensor that can measure levels of fertility, moisture, pH, and electrical conductivity to help farmers apply just the effective amount of agrochemicals. (worldskills.org)
  • Beyond the ecological consequences of the rapid rise in crop yields, Chinese consumers as well as farmers and farm workers have faced health problems. (theconversation.com)
  • Handling agrochemicals brings risks to farmers and has been a significant OSH concern in the ginger value chain. (ilo.org)
  • According to him, farmers become susceptible to health issues caused by exposure to chemical agents and that risks can arise within one year of exposure. (worldskills.org)
  • This is associated with many environmental and health risks, especially when many farmers lack protective equipment, systems for safe handling and disposal, and knowledge about the chemicals they use. (lu.se)
  • Innovations such as genetic modification of seeds, agrochemicals, and enhanced equipment are stringently regulated and can be safely used to achieve important environmental and humanitarian goals. (iwf.org)
  • Lasanda Kurukulasuriya reports on an agrarian crisis that is driving Sri Lankan farmers to suicide. (newint.org)
  • In Sri Lanka, they are taking the lives of distressed rice-paddy farmers who commit suicide by swallowing these poisons. (newint.org)
  • Overall, at least 87,567 farmers killed themselves between 2002 and 2006 -- or about one farmer suicide every 30 minutes, the bureau says. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • Nevertheless a 2006 report by Srijit Mishra, an economist at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research in Mumbai, found that the suicide rate among male farmers in Maharashtra has risen from 15 per 1,000 people to 57 per 1,000 in the past 10 years. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • The Environmental Protection Agency increased the permissible level to 30 ppm to help Canadian oat farmers-with pressure from agrochemical producers. (non-gmoreport.com)
  • In Colombia and Ecuador, BASF is helping to establish networks of partners, including the farmers. (basf.com)
  • Camilo Bravo, co-owner of Agronik Colombia, with one of the drones offered to farmers in Colombia to apply agrochemicals to their fields. (basf.com)
  • Just in Colombia, almost 3,000 cases of intoxication with agrochemical agents were reported last year, he says. (worldskills.org)
  • Biodiverse organic systems have the potential to feed two Indias and increase farmers' incomes tenfold. (deccanchronicle.com)
  • The southern one-half to two-thirds of Brazil has a semi-temperate climate, higher rainfall, more fertile soil, more advanced technology and input use, adequate infrastructure and more experienced farmers. (wikipedia.org)
  • One major calculate that compels agriculturists to utilize engineered agrochemicals is declining natural conditions interface to climate alter. (alliedacademies.org)
  • There is a mystery kidney disease that for years has been killing thousands of farmers in Sri Lanka's rice basket - and as it spreads, locals are becoming increasingly fearful. (independent.co.uk)
  • While India's economy surges forward on the crest of the wave of globalization, thousands of farmers are taking their own lives every year to escape the stress of mounting debt and an uncertain future. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • The farmers also filed an amparo suit claiming constitutional rights violations, alleging that the agrochemical use also violated their rights to life, to a healthy environment, and to adequate food, water, health, and quality of life. (escr-net.org)
  • Furthermore, the owners and administrators of the two closest soy farms to the affected people were not criminally charged, even though the investigation revealed that they did not follow environmental norms and applied agrochemicals without adequate technical guidance. (escr-net.org)
  • On January 13, 2011, a group of farmers, residents filed a criminal complaint with the Paraguayan prosecutor's office alleging that the large-scale soy farmers whose land bordered the Colonia had used agrochemicals in violation of environmental norms and caused the illnesses and Mr. Portillo's death. (escr-net.org)
  • And much like other product manufacturers ensure message delivery to end user, it becomes a responsibility for the agrochemical industry to ensure awareness percolates down to the last farmer. (blogspot.com)
  • Marketing agrochemical products correctly remains a major focus area for the industry. (blogspot.com)
  • From a socio-economic perspective, farmers are often under contractual arrangements with the tobacco industry and are trapped in a vicious circle of debt, unable to get a fair price for their product. (who.int)
  • instead the agrochemical industry has been allowed to fill the gap. (chinadialogue.net)
  • While many initiatives are taken by the government to reach to the last farmer, individual companies should proactively take initiatives in this regard. (blogspot.com)
  • COTA launched the Support Organic Change Fund in 2019 to encourage farmers to transition to organic. (organiccouncil.ca)
  • Governments and policymakers should support tobacco farmers to switch to alternative, more sustainable livelihoods to reduce the environmental impact of tobacco growing, curing and manufacturing while continue to implement tobacco control measures. (who.int)
  • Our work also aims to improve the livelihoods of farmers and the level of food security in their communities. (drbronner.com)
  • A fast-unto-death was launched by six male farmers, two women farmers and three Buddhist monks, in support of 29 demands. (newint.org)
  • The plight of small farmers is due to a complex web of circumstances, many of which are beyond their control. (newint.org)
  • Governments have since 1977 abandoned small farmers and introduced liberalized markets and export-oriented growth strategies recommended by the World Bank. (newint.org)
  • This will not only increase product penetration but also educate farmers about the judicious use of agrochemicals in terms of quantity to be used, the right application methodology and appropriate chemicals to be used for identified pest problems. (blogspot.com)
  • The hope is that such a gene transfer will make it possible to reduce the use of agrochemicals, develop plants for animal feed that is free from these chemicals, and grow plants that produce drugs. (newscientist.com)
  • Still, farmers douse their fields with too many chemicals, often using concoctions that include kerosene and multiple poisons. (independent.co.uk)
  • This is why ostensibly good things, like USAID trying to help poor farmers, get so controversial: People worry that, in giving farmers access to modern technology, we are locking them in. (grist.org)
  • The opportunity to ask farmer Ivan Pidlisniy about his practices presented itself during the course " Eco Practices for Farming and Communities " offered by a collaboration of NGO "Ecoaction" and Prometheus. (org.ua)
  • This workshop report contains significant information such as GAS infestation levels in the different regions of the Philippines from 1987 to 1990, perceptions of rice farmers about GAS as a pest, and GAS management practices. (applesnail.net)
  • With the population expected to increase to nine billion by 2050, the world needs to be more productive, but farming practices are killing the soil and biodiversity, causing farmers to abandon their fields, poisoning waterways and producing food that is lacking in nutritional value. (euromoney.com)
  • Already, BirdLife International and the Burkinabe partner Naturama are working to change the way shea resources are managed within the landscape and are promoting a farmer-led approach built on simple, low cost changes in land management to enhance biodiversity on-farm. (tcd.ie)
  • We know farmers can harvest oats without glyphosate, and to protect kids' health, this needlessly risky practice must stop," said Colin O'Neil of Environmental Working Group. (non-gmoreport.com)
  • Adding that this will be done in the light of the season to prepare the farmers as the Government has already prepared to give food security for the State. (adamawadailyreports.com)
  • Wang is one of an increasing number farmers in China who are cutting back on fertilizer and pesticide use, and tapping into consumer demand for organic and sustainably grown food. (theconversation.com)
  • So, for more than a decade, non-profits and governments have focused on reducing poverty and hunger in the country by helping farmers there increase productivity in their fields, using the same monocropping techniques embraced by commodity corn and soy growers in the U.S. (civileats.com)
  • But instead of shouldering a heavy backpack sprayer and navigating muddy paddy fields in hot and humid environments for hours - like his father did and so many Colombian farmers are still doing today - Nicolás pushes the start button of his drone and prepares its takeoff. (basf.com)
  • For four years we have been using our own drone to apply agrochemicals to the fields. (basf.com)
  • As a result, Roundup is liberally used by home gardeners and local authorities on roadsides, in school grounds, and other public areas, as well as in farmers' fields. (theecologist.org)
  • During peak harvesting season, a farmer sells the harvest at between Rwf150 and Rwf200 per Kilogramme. (furtherafrica.com)
  • Paddy farmers have been simply unable to sell their harvest for a price that covered their cost of production. (newint.org)
  • However, are these companies marketing their products well among their target audience i.e farmers? (blogspot.com)
  • It therefore becomes the duty of all agrochemical companies to directly approach farmers for their products and give them live demonstrations regarding the usage. (blogspot.com)
  • However, the measures threaten seed diversity and favor large agrochemical businesses. (avaaz.org)
  • Its cause is not yet known, though there are long-held suspicions that agrochemicals are to blame, and Sri Lanka is lacking in the dialysis required to effectively treat the many sufferers. (independent.co.uk)
  • Fewer agrochemicals are normally needed when the electronically treated water is being used. (customizedwatersystems.com)
  • Required to work marginal, barren lands, farmers will be forced to seek out new water supplies and apply ever larger quantities of agrochemicals. (newscientist.com)
  • The report's author Shanthi Mendis said the government's top two priorities should be supplying safe drinking water to residents and regulating the use of agrochemicals. (independent.co.uk)
  • For example, city dwellers of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa who consume pipe-borne water from reservoirs do not contaminate the disease but the villagers/farmers in the peripheral areas who drink water from certain wells do. (dailymirror.lk)
  • 1990. Utilization of solid-phase extraction and reversed-phase and ion- pair chromatography in the analysis of seven agrochemicals in water. (cdc.gov)
  • Like any other product on the market, agrochemicals too need marketing and servicing. (blogspot.com)
  • While agrochemicals have reached the market available to many farmers, educators and illustrators have often not been able to reach each one of them to inform about the judicious use of the products. (blogspot.com)
  • Amidst the scenario, if the farmer daring to buy the new product fails to attain the desired result due to wrong usage of the product, the respective product will lose its substantial market. (blogspot.com)
  • The research setting is Uganda, where the agrochemicals market has become highly liberalized and poorly controlled, and where pesticide use amongst smallholders is on the increase. (lu.se)
  • Whilst research has not proved that agrochemicals are the cause of CKDu, their role cannot be totally ruled out in that disease may be multi-factorial as adverted to by many. (dailymirror.lk)
  • Farmers say potato produce mainly benefits middlemen who buy the produce from them at lower prices and sell them at high price in Kigali and other parts of the country. (furtherafrica.com)
  • However, these benefits are preceded by the initial challenges that can make transitioning difficult for many farmers, including the upfront cost. (organiccouncil.ca)
  • When we learned that many of the 800 farmers in Ghana at our sister company Serendipalm also grow cocoa, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to create a line of chocolate that benefits farmers, the planet, and consumers. (drbronner.com)
  • While a farmer, deprived of awareness would know well about the generic products, he would hesitate to buy any new products due to lack of knowledge and high cost. (blogspot.com)
  • Although mostly occupied by subsistence farmers, both regions are increasingly important as exporters of forest products, cocoa and tropical fruits. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Support Organic Change Fund's Ontario reach has been limited to date, with only 3 Ontarian farmers having fully utilized the fund. (organiccouncil.ca)
  • Farm subsidies should be a safety net and support farmers who face an unavoidable catastrophe, such as a natural disaster. (iwf.org)
  • On the other hand, some farmers sell their land to potential farmers because they have no financial means to grow potatoes. (furtherafrica.com)
  • Thanks to purchases by Dr. Bronner's and other committed buyers, it will grow to ~500 farmers in the coming years. (drbronner.com)