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Coca-Cola brand Sprite has been caught up in a Chinese investigation into two cases of alleged mercury poisoning. In two separate incidents Chinese media reported that two people appear to have suffered mercury poisoning after drinking cans of Sprite. Coca-Cola is assisting ...
CHINA - Sturgeon farmers in the Three Gorges area of China's Yangtze River are dismantling their fish tanks in order to keep navigation channels safe and clear. According to People's Daily Online, more than 180 households in Zigui County, in the upper reaches of the Three Gorges ...
CHINA - Himfr.com, one of China's leading B2B search platforms with more than 30 B2B industry websites to its name, reports pork prices will stay stable in 2010. Himfr reports that 2010 pork prices will not experience excessive fluctuations. The average live pig price is RMB 13...
CHINA - According to Chinese Customs, the export of China's aquatic products surged to 319,000 tons, with an export value of US$1.2 billion in December 2009. This is an increase of 20.9 per cent and 23.7 per cent respectively, hitting a historical high of single month export ...
CHINA - The Shanghai Crab Symposium last year brought together scientists, farmers and fisheries officers from 18 countries with one thing in common ?crabs. In the opening ceremony Professor Patrick Sorgeloos challenged participants to push past the current magic of some ...
CHINA - In order to implement the spirit of the 3rd Plenary Session of the 17th CCCPC and the No. 1 document of the Party Central Committee, China's Ministry of Agriculture strengthened the routine monitoring of quality and safety of agricultural products in 2009. The number of ...
In the world of citrus fruit, the pomelo is a giant. Known botanically as Citrus maxima or Citrus grandis, pomelos can grow up to a foot in diameter and weigh in at 25 pounds. But don't be intimidated; the ones you'll encounter at the market will be easier to manage. Green in ...
China is expected, in the next 2-3 months, to allow Indian basmati rice imports as the two countries have recently reached a political consensus, a top official of agri-export promotion body Apeda has said. A political consensus on basmati rice trade was arrived at the recently ...
China Green Agriculture, Inc. (NYSE: CGA; "China Green Agriculture" or "the Company"), a leading producer and distributor of humic acid ("HA") based compound fertilizer through its wholly owned subsidiary, Shaanxi TechTeam Jinong Humic Acid Product Co., Ltd., today announced that ...
The achievements of Research and application of key techniques of remote sensing monitoring for grassland vegetation have won the first prize of China Agricultural Science and Technology Award through examining and appraising by the Committee of China Agricultural Science ...
The pesticide industry has encountered the most serious difficulty this year. This is the voice from the expert workshop of pesticide industry management and development jointly held by the Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture (ICAMA), and the ...
Report from Fujian Provincial Department of Agriculture says that the province has realized increase in grain harvest for the third consecutive year, despite a slight drop in harvestable acreages compared with last year and its insufficiency in arable land per capita. Source from ...
After one year of hard work led by Wang Wequan, Research Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS) has completed the genome sequencing of three varieties of cassava. Meanwhile, thanks to several UHT sequencing technologies, the Academy has obtained ...
Vice Agricultural Minister Wei Chao'an inspected the agricultural production in Dezhou City of Shandong Province to examine the impact of temperature drop and snowing weather on winter wheat and vegetable production, and to seek measures to enhance field management of winter ...
The Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) started a remote training course on the national rural biogas undertaking through the online service of the Central Agricultural and Television School on December 15, 2009, in a bid to improve the quality and service ability of the contingent of ...
Emerging markets continue to attract both food processors and equipment suppliers, with AMF Bakery Systems, a leading supplier of bakery equipment in North America, recently expanding its footprint in the Asia Pacific region. The company said that it now has sales, parts and ...
More worrisome say economists, is that property prices are rising rapidly - like a bubble. Chinese officials say the country's massive stimulus package last year worked - the economy grew nearly nine percent last year. But it may have worked too well. China has to deal with a ...
Chinese authorities have closed two dairies in the northern region of Ningxia following the discovery of a further 170 tonnes of melamine tainted milk powder, according to media reports. The latest case adds to the growing number of discoveries in recent weeks of products tainted ...
Many Chinese mushroom products are sold at a lower price than those made in Taiwan, the Taiwan Mushroom Research and Development Association (TMRDA) said yesterday, according to a report of Liberty Times. Chen Tsung-ming, director-general of TMRDA, and its member Hou Wen-liang ...
The International Potato Center, repository of the largest potato gene bank in the world, has opened a regional office in China to help boost Asian production of the ubiquitous tubers, the Peru-based center said. "Research into potatoes and sweet potatoes will receive a new boost ...
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