Chapter III. The Hill Country Op Judah

2005 ◽  
pp. 57-79
Keyword(s):  
Hill Country ◽  
The Hill

Pathways ahead for New Zealand hill country farming

2016 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 73-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
F.G. Scrimgeour
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Hill Country ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Hill Farming ◽  
The Hill

This paper provides a stocktake of the status of hill country farming in New Zealand and addresses the challenges which will determine its future state and performance. It arises out of the Hill Country Symposium, held in Rotorua, New Zealand, 12-13 April 2016. This paper surveys people, policy, business and change, farming systems for hill country, soil nutrients and the environment, plants for hill country, animals, animal feeding and productivity, and strategies for achieving sustainable outcomes in the hill country. This paper concludes by identifying approaches to: support current and future hill country farmers and service providers, to effectively and efficiently deal with change; link hill farming businesses to effective value chains and new markets to achieve sufficient and stable profitability; reward farmers for the careful management of natural resources on their farm; ensure that new technologies which improve the efficient use of input resources are developed; and strategies to achieve vibrant rural communities which strengthen hill country farming businesses and their service providers. Keywords: farming systems, hill country, people, policy, productivity, profitability, sustainability

The Topography of the Scamander Valley.—II

1912 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 286-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Leaf
Keyword(s):  
Short Distance ◽  
Hill Country ◽  
The Hill ◽  
The Temple

The name of Gergis appears first in Herodotos, and is applied to a tribe said to be the descendants of the ancient Teukrians; ῾γμέης . . .εἶλε μὲν Αἰολέας πάντας, ὅσοι τὴν ᾿Ιλιάδα νέμονται, εἶλε δὲ Γέργιθας τοὺςὑπολειφθέντας τῶν ἀρχαίων Τευκρῶν (v. 122). Where they dwelt is made clear in vii. 43. After his visit to the temple of Athena at Ilion, Xerxes marches to Abydos, keeping Rhoiteion, Ophryneion and Dardanos on his left, and the Teukrian Gergithes on his right; ἐπορεύετο ἐνθεῦτεν ἐνἀριστερῆι μὲν ἀοέργων ῾Ροίτειον πόλιν καὶ ᾿Οφρύνειον καὶ Δάρδανον, ἤπερδὴ ᾿Αβύδωι ὄμουρός ἐστι, ἐν δεξυῆι δὲ Γέργιθας Τευκπρούς. The Greek colonists, the Aeolians, had occupied with their towns the whole of the coast; the older inhabitants had been driven into the hill-country a short distance inland.

Notes on the Bronze Age in the East Midlands

1950 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 65-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. G. E. Powell
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Environmental Archaeology ◽  
The South ◽  
Hill Country ◽  
Natural Region ◽  
East Midlands ◽  
Ancient Forest ◽  
Modern Geography ◽  
Forest Lands ◽  
The Hill

The English Midlands (fig. 1) as a natural region, and for the purposes of environmental archaeology, form a more restricted area than that to which the term is usually applied in modern geography. Fox (1943, 68) has written of ‘… the great triangle of forest lands which form the Midlands …’ and reference to the maps in the same work shows this triangle as roughly lying between the Dee estuary at Chester, the confluence of the Severn and the Avon at Tewkesbury, and a point in the vicinity of the watershed between the Trent and the rivers of the Wash. For convenience of reference it is suggested that the approximate eastern point should be represented by the site of Belvoir Castle for here the plain has narrowed between the southern tip of the Pennines, and the uplands of Leicestershire, to the effective basin of the Trent. This river in its course below Nottingham flows through ancient forest lands, but it is no longer Midland country.The most uniform frontier of the Midlands, as here defined, is that provided to the south and east by the great sweep of the Jurassic uplands from the Cotswolds to Lincoln Edge. To the west, the Severn and the hill country of the Welsh borderlands form a zone which provides natural communications north and south and into the Welsh massif, but which, as it were, turns its back to the east. The northern confines of the Midlands are altogether less definite, but may be said to creep round the edges of the southern Pennines from the south bank of the Mersey to the middle course of the Trent.

scholarly journals II.—Topography: Bardoúnia and North-Eastern Maina

1910 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 62-71
Author(s):  
H. A. O.
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
Hill Country ◽  
The Road ◽  
Eastern Side ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
The Hill

The following paper, which completes the series of papers on the classical topography of Laconia, is an account of the hill-country on the eastern side of Taÿgetos, bounded on the north by the road from Sparta to Anavryté, on the south by Gytheion and Pánitsa. (Fig.1.)

scholarly journals OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES AHEAD FOR HILL COUNTRY FARMING

2009 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
P. Garden
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rates ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Land Type ◽  
Hill Country ◽  
The Hill

Hill country sheep and beef farming systems cover much of the farmed area of New Zealand - probably around 8 million out of the 11.5 million hectares of grazing/arable land. That figure recognises that a hill country enterprise is usually an integrated system - predominantly breeding, perhaps with some deer, will often have forestry and increasingly, moving more to fattening at least a proportion of the surplus stock. Climate varies hugely across the hill country land use area with droughts and dry periods requiring adaptive systems to manage the risk of feed shortage. Products able to be generated from this land type include: meat, carbon, fibre, wood, energy and ecological services such as biodiversity and landscape values. In looking at the opportunities and challenges ahead, I am going to take a five to 10 year view rather than focus on the impacts likely to be experienced over the next year or so. If we confined ourselves to the short term, all the discussion would be about currency, cost of fertiliser, interest rates and predicted rainfall - none of which we could greatly influence! My focus is more on global trends and the nature of the land.

scholarly journals Economic Value of Agarwood and Its Prospects of Cultivation

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-31
Author(s):  
Suraj Raj Adhikari ◽  
Kusum Pokhrel ◽  
Sunil Dutta Baral
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Traditional Medicines ◽  
Hill Country ◽  
The Past ◽  
Northern India ◽  
Anti Cancer ◽  
Pharmacological Studies ◽  
Anti Oxidant ◽  
The Hill

Aquilaria are genera of tropical trees that produces a valuable resinous wood called agarwood. Agarwood plant have been widely used as traditional medicines and Ayurvedic medicine. They are used for the treatment of arthritis, asthma, diarrhoea etc effects. It contains bioactive phytochemical sesquiterpenoids, 2 (-2-phenylethyl)-4H-chromen-4-one derivatives, genkwanins, mangiferins, cucurbitacins, other terpenoids and phenolic acids. Many pharmacological studies have been performed on anti-allergic, anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, anti-diabetic, anti-oxidant, etc. The aromatic properties of agarwood when burned or distilled are extraordinary and there is high demand for the resinous wood to make incense, perfume and as traditional medicine. Aquilaria are native to northern India but over harvesting of this tree as well as other forest trees in the past has ravaged the hill country. With new technology that has been developed to induce agarwood in trees, it is now possible to produce a sustainable high valued agarwood in young plantation trees. The growing of Aquilaria in the hill agro-ecosystems of Nepal and cultivation of agarwood as a crop using new technology could provide a new economy for the region. Int. J. Appl. Sci. Biotechnol. Vol 9(1): 23-31

scholarly journals AGRICULTURE IN TARANAKI SINCE 1963

1982 ◽  
pp. 20-30
Author(s):  
B.J. Hockings
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Economic Viability ◽  
Dairy Production ◽  
Development Phase ◽  
Hill Country ◽  
The Past ◽  
Farm Product ◽  
The Hill ◽  
Total Stock

Despite the impression that Taranaki is predominantly a dairy farming area, only 37% of the total pasture and crop lands, and 59% of the total stock units are in dairying. In the last 10 years dairy production has increased significantly, but with many farmers now approaching 100% pasture utilisation future increases must come from increased pasture growth which has been static for the past 15 years. Sheep and beef production is centred mainly in the hard eastern hill country. Though it offers the greatest potential for increased agricultural production in Taranaki, the area is not productive enough at current farm product and phosphate prices to prevent reversion to scrub. Currently the land is in the development phase, but with adequate topdressing and controlled grazing, the long term economic viability of the hill country should improve. Horticulture is expanding rapidly along the suitable western coastal strip of Taranaki, and co-operation with the highly efficient dairy industry would seem logical. While future propcrity appears to lie with the petro-chemical industry, these are finite, whereas the soils and climate are permanent ensuring the long term future of agriculture in Taranaki.

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