1A-Commercial+Agriculture

=Commercial Agriculture = **What is Commercial Agriculture? ** **How is Commercial Agriculture causing deforestation? ** **Animals that are affected by Commercial Agriculture ** > **What is being done to help? ** > **What can we do to help? ** >
 * The production of crops for sale
 * Crops intended for wide spread distribution to wholesalers or retail outlets
 * Types:
 * Intensive Commercial Farming
 * Extensive Commercial Farming
 * Plantation Agriculture
 * Commercial Agriculture uses the rainforest land for plantation, even though the soil may be nutrient deficient.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Large scale commercial agriculture takes up most of the productive soils leaving smaller companies to cause more deforestation in the rain forest because they have to cut down more trees in order have the soil they need for their companies.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Agriculture companies plant monoculture (plantation of one type of crop) which can be economically risky because a single cold spell or drought can ruin the land.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">When the fertilizer is no longer productive the land that was previously used is abandoned.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9933ff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Fertilizers used for commercial agriculture can be washed into streams affecting the fish and aquatic life. An example of one of the animals affected by this would be the Amazon River Dolphin because of the chemicals that are going into the streams they live in.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9933ff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The chimpanzees are also losing their homes because of the amount of trees being destroyed because of Commercial Agriculture. **<span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Who is doing this? **
 * <span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">One business called Gruppo Maggi, is considered to be one of the world’s largest soy producers. Maggi has no sympathy towards the deforestation caused by his company. When Maggi also became state governor, deforestation in Brazil more than doubled in his first year. Since the soy production has been increasing over the past years, the demand for soy products has also increased the destruction of the rain forest all over the world.
 * <span style="color: #ff33cc; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The Nature Conservancy is an organization that is dedicated to helping save the rainforest. This organization comes up with creative ideas to balance the needs of people with nature.
 * <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Teach others about the rainforest, and make sure they are aware of deforestation.
 * <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Help restore the ecosystems around us, and plant trees on land where trees have been cut down.
 * <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Support organizations that are helping to save the rainforest.