Because hill farming is becoming increasingly less profitable an increasing number of farmers have switched from the traditional hearty but less profitable animals which graze the moors to mainstream more profitable animals.
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It is a mainly rural area with fishing and hill farming ( as well as some arable farming ) still playing a large part in the local economy, although tourism is increasing.
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Quarrying the hard millstone grit for building and paving, mining for lead and minerals, some small scale coal mining and hill farming were important in Anglezarke particularly from the 17th to the 19th centuries.
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The watersheds of Diteki, Dikapinisan, Watershed no . 56, and Dikapinisan has an average critical watershed index of 0.34, meaning the erosion levels, deforestation, hill farming and logging roads combined indicate a relatively low risk of environmental damage.
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In addition he was president of Grasmere Sports, the Patterdale Dog Day, and the Cumberland and Westmorland Playing Fields Association, and served on a number of bodies such as the Hill Farming Advisory Committee, Westmorland Agricultural Committee, Northern Arts and the Rosehill Theatre at Whitehaven.
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Grants were also made to meet up to half the cost of supplying water to farm buildings and fields, the government met half the cost of bracken eradication and lime spreading, and grants were paid for bringing hill farming land into use that had previously been considered unfit for farming purposes.
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Mirtola Ashram became a pilgrimage for Indian theosophists and started working extensively with the local communities pioneering hill farming techniques which he encouraged them to adopt, a work for which Sri Madhava Ashish was awarded the Padma Shri in 1992 by the Indian government, he later died on April 13, 1997.
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Jamma land and Jamma malai land ( traditional sedentary farming and hill farming lands of Kodavas ) under Article 370 and 371 of the Constitution, as has been done in relation to the lands of State of Jammu and Kashmir and North Eastern states of India ( and to some extent in other states also ),
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The DPA has twenty-two policies listed on its web site : regarding access and rights of way, fencing, protecting monuments, diverse habitats, bracken, china clay quarrying, military training and live firing, hill farming and small scale traditional local industries, quarrying, television and telephone masts, wind farms, planning applications, housing developments, woodlands and forestry, ponies, swaling, and recreational activities.
