In the less developed parts of southern Africa, where agriculture is crucial in daily survival, agricultural lime is often difficult to obtain. This is due to the scarcity of production sites, high transport costs and inadequate support for farmers from government extension services. In Zambia there are upwards of 700,000 small-scale farmers who struggle to farm on acid soils and as a result ha...

The agricultural sector in Japan is currently undergoing drastic changes. A comparison of statistical data for the years 1980 to 2016 shows that gross agricultural production decreased from 10.3 trillion yen to 8.8 trillion yen, agricultural land decreased from 5.46 million hectares (ha) to 4.47 million ha, the working population in the agricultural sector decreased from 6.97 million to 1.92 mi...