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From now on, Moroccan growers can export citrus to the Chinese market. The opening is the result of a collaboration between the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, marine industry professionals and the National Council for Food Safety (ONSSA). Both countries have agreed on the ...
Source: MOA Grassland Supervision Center Before the opening of the 2010 International Conference on Chinese Caterpillar Fungus in China, the first picture album of Chinese caterpillar fungus has been formally published in Chinese and English versions. The picture album is a ...
Author: Liang Baozhong Source: MOA website After the severe drought hit Guizhou Province this year, most local forage and plants withered due to lack of water. Eupatorium adenophorum has become a superior species in the local meadows and vegetations. Therefore, it is common that ...
TAIWAN & US - Taiwan, for the first time will conduct on-site inspections of US slaughterhouses that export beef to Taiwan, according to Taiwan's Ministry of Health. Department of Health Minister, Yaung Chih-liang said that the move, scheduled for August or September, was to ...
CHINESE apples are a step closer to coming into Australia after the local industry had its appeal based on serious pest concerns rejected. Peak industry body Apple and Pear Australia Ltd said growers were "totally disillusioned" with the appeals process conducted by the Import ...
BEIJING, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Eastern China's Jiangsu Province this year will pump more than 20 billion yuan into a series of waterway dredging projects, a lake embankment improvement project and a water diversion project for the flood-prone Huahe River. These projects are ...
BEIJING, May 10 (Xinhua) -- Home prices in 70 large and medium-sized Chinese cities rose by 12.4 percent year on year in May, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said in a statement Thursday. The growth rate was 0.4 percentage points lower than that of April, as property ...
Agriculture and Food Agency under the Council of Agriculture of the Executive Yuan announced to increase the export volume of Taiwanese bananas and encourage companies to buy unripe bananas to make preserved banana slices, in order to solve the over supply of bananas production ...
BEIJING, June 8 -- June the 16th marks China's traditional festival of "Duanwu", internationally known as the Dragon Boat Festival. One week before the holiday, the festive mood is already growing strong. And in Shanghai, visitors are treated with authentic food at the Duanwu ...
China saw the total value of imports and exports of agricultural products increase 33.1% year on year to US$35.01 billion in the first four months of this year, according to the statistics released by the Ministry of Agriculture. In the period from January to April, the export ...
CHINA - Chinese Vice Minister Niu Dun met with visiting Nambian Minister of Fisheries, Mr Bernhardt Martin Esau, to discuss the opportunities for enhancing bilateral cooperation in fisheries. Vice Minister Niu pointed out that the bilateral relationship had been going on quite ...
Nearly six tons of cherries recently imported from the United States have been found to contain the pesticide malathion, the Department of Health (DOH) said Saturday. Pan Chih-kuan, a director of the DOH's Food and Drug Administration, said the two batches of cherries contained 0...
The Pingtung County government has begun to buy bananas from local farmers at eight locations in the southern area to help prop up the fruit's slumping price, in line with an initiative launched by Taiwan's top agricultural authority. The Cabinet-level Council of Agriculture (COA...
BEIJING, June 17 (Xinhua) -- Prices of farm produce and producer goods in China's 36 large and medium-sized cities have dropped six weeks in a row, the Ministry of Commerce said Thursday, indicating easing inflationary pressure this month. In the week ended June 13, farm produce ...
Source: Farmers' Daily Recently, the 2010 Guangxi-ASEAN Exchange Activity on New Varieties of Vegetable was launched at Guangxi University. In total, 132 renowned vegetable seed producers and research institutions are participating with over 800 new varieties. In addition, over ...
CHANGZHOU, June 19 (Xinhua) -- The combine harvested five mu (0.33 hectare) of wheat within an hour while Yang Shan, a farmer from eastern China's Jiangsu Province, talked with friends on his mobile phone. The farmer in his seventies paid only 250 yuan (37 U.S. dollars) to the ...
Source: MOA Press Office Now is the busy season of summer for agriculture. Local authorities try their best to achieve a bumper harvest and organize farmers to sow in sunny days. As of June 16, grain crops that had been sowed reached 150 million mu, 32.4% of the planned total; ...
WUXI, Jiangsu, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Yuan Longping, known as the "father of hybrid rice", said on Sunday that his team was working on a new version of high-yield hybrid rice and might complete it in 2012. Yuan, director of the National Hybrid Rice Engineering Technology Research ...
Source: Chinanews.com On June 16, China won the WTO case on US ban on Chinese poultry products. This is the first time China challenged the US Congressional act, and the first victory of suing US Congressional act, which in experts opinion is significant. China issued a medium...
Public reaction to the Department of Health s (DOH) proposed health tax on junk food were mixed, with some people saying that junk food is not addictive and is less of a health hazard than tobacco or alcohol. The government is interfering too much with people s lives, one person ...
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