Commercial Trucking and Agricultural Products
Many of the industries in this country rely heavily upon the services offered by commercial trucking companies. The work of truckers can move goods to and from distribution centers, to the marketplace, or directly to a business’s clients. Moreover, it would be far too expensive for most organizations to own and operate a fleet of trucks and to employ drivers, especially in cases where the production output is limited to only a small timeframe during the course of the year. Farms, ranches, and other agriculturally centered enterprises are particularly well-served by commercial trucking companies.
These businesses often need to have their goods transported quickly to their intended destination because of the perishable nature of produce. Delays in shipping have the potential to lead to significant financial losses as agricultural goods become unsafe for consumption and this could easily trigger the failure of a small operation. A large enough failure is even capable of leveling a fairly sizable or well-established entity. Beyond the simple need for expediency, many varieties of produce require special storage during transport. Refrigeration and climate-control involving regulation of humidity, for example, may be necessary to preserve freshness and to prevent spoiling.
Factors that Enhance the Appeal of Commercial Trucking
Enhancing Agricultural Productivity and Competitiveness
Promoting Innovation Approach.
The agriculture sector continues to evolve based on shifting demand patterns, improved technology, integrating trade, and the market. Learning from the industrial sector, the Bank is exploring innovation systems approach to address the demands and forces that impact agriculture. The agriculture portfolio targets integrated programs that address science, private sector investment, the financial system, the policy and regulatory environment, and stakeholder participation. Commitments to agricultural research, extension, training and education components (AKIS) have increased from $230 million in FY04 to $282 million in FY05 to $499 million in FY06. 48 percent of this lending was towards agricultural research.
Re-engaging in water for agriculture.
Agriculture accounts for nearly 80 percent of global water use. To gain “more crop per drop,” the Bank is proactively re-engaging in investments that target the policy, technical, and governance aspects of agricultural water. The Africa Action Plan identified managing water for agriculture as a priority. Investments that empower local user groups and promote public private partnerships are critical to improving performance in this subsector.
Organic Soil Matter – Pocket Friendly Agricultural Product
There has been a lot of buzz about Mycorrhizae fungi and beneficial soil biology being used to successfully build organic soil matter in and around your plants root zone. In my opinion beneficial soil biology and mycorrhizae fungi are absolutely effective in rebuilding and aerating broken down soils as well as increasing the fertility of high quality soils. Soil biology products like Myco and Soil Blast, are effective in all sorts of soils from, sand to clay to coco coir and are used for both indoor and outdoor growing alike. Beneficials will find a place to process the plants organic soil matter wastes, into rich organic plant nutrition, even in hydroponic applications like rockwool and coco coir. In classic, natural growing, plants are constantly being bombarded with particles of decaying organic soil matter and use low concentrations of naturally occurring beneficial organisms to break these particles down naturally, over time.
