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In places like North and South America, Africa or Australia, people have a vision of farms that spread to the horizon, measured in thousands of acres/hectares.

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Saffron (Crocus sativus L., a member of the Iridaceae family) is prized for its unique yellow color in culinary dishes and loved by chefs for its flavor in many of our foods. The high cost comes from the fact that it needs to be grown in a particular climate and the long red stigma must be laboriously collected by hand. 

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Since legislation demanded that the ominous words "contains sulphites" appear on the back of virtually every bottle of wine, the word "sulphites" has caused mass hysteria and hypochondria in wine consumers all over the world.

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The growing requirement for sustainability in agriculture and rising food production insecurity worldwide have led to a substantial increase in the demand for controlled release fertilizers.

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Farmers could continue to produce high crop yields with far less use of artificial fertilisers if they adopted environmentally sustainable practices, an academic study has shown for the first time.