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BEIJING, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Local authorities in southwest China are moving to clamp down on food price hikes as the worst drought in decades shows no sign of easing. Authorities in Guiyang, capital of the poverty-stricken mountainous Guizhou province, have indicated they would ...
CHINA - The latest prices for live pigs, corn and soybean meal have just been published. The latest prices as they appear in the Chinese magazine, Pork Industry Science, are: Live pigs (RMB/kg) Corn (RMB/kg) Soybean Meal (RMB/kg) Beijing 9.8 1.74 3.1 Tianjin 9.4 3.2 Hebei 9.4 3.1 ...
BEIJING The Coca-Cola Company has launched a new innovative tea-flavored beverage in China to enhance its product portfolio and further tap the huge beverage market. Coca-Cola's Sprite brand on Thursday launched Spritea, a carbonated blend of local green tea flavors. "With ...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand A Hong Kong-based investment group says it wants to invest up to $1.1 billion in New Zealand's dairy industry to make high-quality infant formula and long-life milk products for the Chinese market. The move comes two years after China's 2008 tainted milk ...
NANNING, March 28 (Xinhua) -- More than 1 million students in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region are eating and bathing less as a prolonged drought parches southwest China. Local governments are transporting water to more than 4,500 schools to ensure water supplies of 20 kg per ...
GUANGZHOU - The price of rice in most shops in this Guangdong provincial capital have increased 10 percent in the past month due to the severe drought in southwestern China. Huang Weijuan, a Guangzhou housewife, said she spent 55 yuan ($8) to buy a bag of rice in Taojin ...
BEIJING C Rainfall in southern China provided little respite for millions of residents suffering from the worst drought in a century, a local official said Monday. The army, meanwhile, began delivering water to some of the worst-affected areas. Teams of workers in China's ...
BEIJING, March 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese police have detained a suspect for allegedly poisoning the frozen dumplings which were later exported to Japan and sickened 10 people two years ago, said the Ministry of Public Security Friday. The suspect, Lu Yueting, 36, put poisonous ...
NANNING, March 30 (Xinhua) -- China's sugar production would drop by nearly 10 percent as the severest drought in a century continued to devastate sugar cane croplands in the country's south, industry associations said Tuesday. China's sugar production this season would see a ...
Choosing organic foods has become more than just a fad in recent years, the latest statistics from the Agriculture and Food Agency show. Land dedicated to organic foods has grown significantly: In 2001 organic agriculture comprised 898 hectares compared to 3,056 hectares this ...
The constant parched conditions in Yunnan have caused the prices of vegetables to go up. Local farmers have been unable to salvage anything edible from the dry fields. As a result, the price of cabbage and melons have doubled. To ensure a constant supply, authorities have bought ...
A total of 9,610 kg of toxic vegetables were found in Nanning, capital of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, the Nanning health bureau announced on Monday. Two batches of vegetables were detected with excessive pesticide residues at a local vegetable wholesale market, according to ...
Publicly listed AgriNurture Inc. is acquiring three small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to strengthen its product lines and boost exports. We ll be acquiring one coconut company, one banana company, and a distribution company in the second quarter, ANI CEO and president Antonio ...
The prices of several Chinese herbs have sky-rocketed to as much as 300% over the last six months due to the prolonged hot spell in China. The dry weather in Sichuan, Gui Zhou, Yunnan and Guang Yi has affected the growth of the herbal plants, causing a drop in production for the ...
Taiwan's exports of agricultural products to China will set new records in both volume and value this year after a trade delegation from Shanghai secured new purchasing contracts, according to the Council of Agriculture (COA). Under the COA arrangement, delegates from importing ...
QINGDAO, April 6 (Xinhua) -- China's largest wine museum has opened to the pubic in east China's Qingdao City, attracting more than 5,000 visitors in less than two weeks. Built in an old civil air defense project, the 8,800 square meter Qingdao Wine Museum introduced the process ...
BEIJING, April 8 -- KFC, the U.S. fast food giant, is under widespread criticism in China after it cancelled a promotional activity on Tuesday, claiming that some customers had fake coupons. The restaurant chain had planned to issue three types of coupons at 10 am, 2 pm and 4 pm ...
CHINA - At $47.2 million, Yuhe International has reported 2009 revenue up by 31 per cent on its previous year's performance. Yuhe International Inc. has announced its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2009 results, and provided guidance on its 2010 performance. The company is a ...
CHINA - An official from China's Ministry of Agriculture said the ministry will allocate more subsidies nationwide in a bid to build more standardised pig farms, aiming to stabilise live hog production. This year, the central government will spend CNY 2.5 billion (USD 368 million...
BEIJING, April 7 -- A review board of experts, transparent monitoring and accountability should be ready before crops land on our plates In September 2009, the Ministry of Agriculture quietly issued bio-safety certificates for two strains of genetically modified (GM) rice and a ...
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