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'MAIN ISSUES OF AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE STRATEGY OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT'
Pages 1-4

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... Agricultural cooperatives have a tradition of more than one hundred years in Czechoslovakia, and this tradition has continued during the formation of large-scale, socialist, agricultural production organizations which began in 1949. The bulk of agricultural production in Czechoslovakia comes from the socialist sector, including state farms and cooperative farms.
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... Czechoslovak authorities pay great attention to the development of agriculture and food production and continuously create favorable conditions for further intensive development of this important part of the national economy. Czechoslovak agriculture, and consequently the food industry, have recently undergone substantial changes.
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... Agricultural activities are conducted on more than 52 percent of the territory of the country, and a sound environment is considered to be an inseparable part of the standard of living. The concept of a balanced relationship between further development of agriculture and protection of the environment includes the following three major tasks: • Securing and developing the positive influence of farming on landscape ecosystems, referred to as the "non-production function" of agriculture; • Protecting the environment against potential adverse effects of farming and food processing industries, primarily caused by failures to adhere to technological discipline; • Minimizing the limiting effects of the environment on agriculture and food, both qualitatively and quantitatively.
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... In this connection, emphasis is placed on the role of science in an effort to cope with the global and local problems of effective and reliable environmental protection. Intensive agricultural production is confronted with these problems at the present time and, owing to the development of what is called the civilization factor, will also have to face them in the future.
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  • czechoslovak authorities
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  • food products
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  • national economy
  • average size
  • zone products
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  • cooperative farms

  • authorities pay
  • temperate zone
  • intensive agricultural
  • joint agricultural
  • agricultural enterprises

  • food market
  • domestic food
  • agricultural workers
  • food product
  • food industry

  • including state
  • agricultural cooperatives
  • food processing
  • czechoslovak territory
  • called joint

  • socialist sector
  • undergone substantial
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  • specialized units
  • vary considerably


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