Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23505
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Public Policy Resources Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station via http://poll.orspub.com/poll/ 3 pages., Responses in a Texas Poll to four questions inviting views about (a) the extent to which agriculture is contributing to environmental problems related to soil loss and water use, and b) the extent to which agricultural regulations interfere with landowners' property rights.
8 pages, via online journal, Dense networks of rivers, canals, ditches, dikes, sluice gates, and compartmented fields have enabled the farms of the Red River Delta to produce 18% of Vietnam's rice (Oryza sativa) crop (figure 1), 26% of the country's vegetable crops, and 20% of capture and farmed aquaculture (Redfern et al. 2012). Agriculture in this fertile delta was transformed in the 11th and 13th century AD by large-scale hydraulic projects to protect the delta from flooding and saltwater intrusion, and provide field drainage during the wet season and crop irrigation in the dry season (Tinh 1999). The 20th century brought advancements in agricultural science globally—new crops and livestock genetics, inorganic fertilizers, mechanization, and pesticides that could double and triple food production per unit of land. It was the diesel pump combined with post-Vietnam War agricultural collectivization from 1975 to 1988 that brought the Green Revolution to the Red River Delta.
