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BEIJING Bayan Nur City in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is planning to build a nation's leading wine grape growing base in its Ulan Buh Desert. According to the municipal desert control authority, the project will cover a total area of 26,667 hectares, yield ...
BEIJING, May 14, 2010 (Xinhua News Agency) -- China is to plant 100 million mu (about 6.67 million hectares) of lands with super rice in China in 2010, with an increase of rice output of 50 kilograms per mu. China is hastening the pace of spreading the plantation of super rice ...
HONG KONG, May 13 (Xinhua) -- Eating out too frequently may bring more than satisfaction for your appetite. In Hong Kong, over 80 percent of people were found taking in more fat than necessary, according to a newly released survey. The survey, conducted by a lifestyle website in ...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez's government ordered the expropriation Thursday of a Mexican-owned food company that is one of the largest operating in Venezuela. A notice in the Official Gazette announced the "forced acquisition" of the property and assets of ...
CHINA - In its first quarter 2010 results, AgFeed Industries, Inc. reports revenue of US$53 million, which is 58 per cent more than the same quarter last year. Pig production increased by 24 per cent amd animal feed output more than doubled. AgFeed Industries, Inc., one of the ...
According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics, in April, the Consumer Price Index saw a 2.8 percent increase year-on-year, and the average vegetable price rose by 24.9 percent. Vegetables, which form the majority of most Chinese people's daily diet, are no ...
BEIJING At a time when recession-pinched Americans are swilling Two Buck Chuck, Sun Xiao thinks nothing of entertaining his friends with $150 bottles of wine at his private club. "I like wine very rich wine," Sun, chief executive of a real estate investment firm, said one recent ...
The government will expand the cultivation of super rice by at least 100 million acres, according to information from China's Ministry of Agriculture. The ongoing science and technology services conference in Jiang Xi province resolved that all agricultural sectors should further ...
CHINA - On May 10, the meeting to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Fishery Administration Commanding Center was held in Beijing. Set up in May 2000, the Fishery Administration Commanding Centre aims to enhance co-ordination of national fishery law enforcement when adapting to ...
CHINA & NEW ZEALAND - The way New Zealand works to keep our seafood safe to eat by the world consumers has been showcased during a high-level Chinese delegation two-week visit with the New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA). Six Chinese senior government officials took part in ...
CHINA - In its first quarter 2010 report, Zhonpin reports increases of more than 30 per cent in net sales revenue and net income compared to the same period of 2009. Zhongpin Inc., a leading pig meat and food processing company in the People's Republic of China, has reported ...
Vegetable prices have increased substantially in most cities, following bad weather in many parts of the country since November last year, latest statistics from the Ministry of Commerce showed. Wholesale prices of 18 kinds of vegetables have risen continuously in the country for ...
CHINA - Lysozyme could decrease C. perfringens colonisation in broiler chickens, according to researchers at Beijing's China Agricultural University. Necrotic enteritis is a worldwide poultry disease caused by the overgrowth of Clostridium perfringens in the small intestine, ...
13 Xiamen companies signed more than $ 50 million worth of procurement contracts with 27 Taiwan small-and-medium enterprises at the cross-Strait farm produce trade fair in Yunlin County, Taiwan on Saturday, the Taihainet.com reports. The fair was held during Fujian governor Huang ...
Now garlics were priced at 8,000 yuan per tonne in wholesale from Zhongmou County, one of the country's famous garlic production bases, to Zhengzhou, provincial capital of Henan, said Zhang Yangzhou, a garlic broker in Zhongmou, also in Henan. "Now you can never see the scenes ...
Taipei, May 9 (CNA) Vegetable vendor and philanthropist Chen Shu-chu returned home Sunday after being honored in New York by Time magazine for her charitable donations over the past decades. "It's great to return home, " Chen said with a radiant smile at the airport in her ...
BEIJING, May 23 -- The Expo Park is a place where you can indulge all your senses. You can listen to the enchanting music of five continents and four oceans, and see beautiful scenes of art and culture from every corner of the globe. The World Expo will not fail to impress your ...
Source: People. com This year will witness a speed-up of the expansion of super rice. The goal is to achieve 100 million mu (about 6.67million hectares) planting area, playing an important role in safeguarding China s food security. A CCTV jounalist has reported the news from the ...
Author: Deng Li Source: Farmers Daily May 11-commissioned by a MOA office for grain and oil-bearing crops production, the Chongqing Municipal Agricultural Commission organized experts to carry out field assessment on yield capacity of the 10,000 mu high-yield demonstration land ...
Source: MOA Press Office May 11-EU released Resolution 2010/266 to recognize China s specific equus animal disease-free zone in Guangzhou which is to be listed in the category of countries and regions that can permanently export horses to EU. According to Li Jinxiang, Director...
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