Working the land(Periods 1 Warming up and Reading)
in 1994 help was sent to angola,rwanda,and bosnia.donations made in 1995 were,in sterling;(1 = about $1.60),and the amounts are small compared to need,tmalawi (monkey bay) 1000 to finance running a fruit tree nursery.the project is done in conjunction with concern universal and the wildlife society of malawi.india (madurai) 1265 for two wells in karumbalai for poor villagers who would otherwise have to walk afar.1935 to feed orphans in the orphanage at chathirpatti.(the orphans are taken in from various disasters in india:flood,earthquake,plague,etc.) both of these efforts are in support of the work of pastor jesudoss.india (jaipur) 500 for the leaf concentrate child feeding programs run by find your feet.india (himalayas kumaon) 500 for a medicinal and culinary herb nursery which will help subsistence farmers earn a living and overcome a food shortage,and preserve the wild-growing herbs that are being excessively harvested.el salvador 2500 for growing and drying cowpea leaves to add to children’s snacks to alleviate malnutrition,in cooperation with a local agency,and find your feet.so far in 1996 donations have been made tindia,through pastor jesudoss:500 to help feed refugees from sri lanka,and 1220 to the orphanage.zambia:3000 for a maize grinding mill,donated through the zambian society of vegetarians.mexico: for a dried leaf project of find your feet with cooperation of a local agency.nigeria，and awaiting funding,is a soy flour distribution project to be conducted by the nigerian vegetarian society.5.something about chinese agriculturechina is a country whose population ranks the first in the world.in order to feed the whole population,chinese farmers must produce enough food.on the other hand,they should produce more and better products which can be exported to improve their living standard.but china only has 7% of the land which can be used for farming.therefore,farmers in china have always been looking for better methods and techniques to produce more food.they have also had to find ways to work on more land with fewer hands.in the past 20 years,great achievements have been made in china and china’s farming.with the help of new techniques and the outstanding work of scientists,china has not only solved the problem of hunger but also taken a lead in agricultural research,especially in super hybrid rice,crop genome,fertilizer and so on,causing products to multiply. it is a kind of agriculture although there are differences between land agriculture and water agriculture.fish farming involves human help and produces fish protein crops rather than vegetable or meat protein crops.it has been used for years in china,egypt and rome.fish can either be kept in earthen ponds or in cages with flowing water passing over the fish.if fish are kept in earthen ponds they can be fed either with extra natural food or with specially produced fish food.if fish are kept in cages they have to be fed on the specially produced fish food.when the fish are ready to be harvested and sold for eating,the earthen ponds can be emptied (if all the fish are to be harvested) or the water reduced (if some of the fish are to remain).in the cages all the fish would be harvested together.there is the problem of disease with fish kept in cages.they are generally too close together so they get lice.these parasites can be killed by giving medicine to the fish.but as time goes by,the medicine is not able to kill all the lice.so if some of the lice get onto the wild fish they kill many of them as wild fish have no medicine to protect them.so fish farming can cause problems for wild populations of fish.