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Apple growers fear that China's request to begin exporting fresh product to the U.S. could have a devastating impact on the domestic market, including the introduction of invasive insects and plant diseases. In a pair of letters to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack over the past ...
NEW DELHI India's rice output for the year ending May 31 is likely to fall below the government's estimates, after a longer-than-expected rain season damaged crops in southern states and delayed sowing. A drop in rice output, below the official estimate of 80.41 million metric ...
NORTHERN IRELAND-The Fisheries Division of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) has taken delivery of a new Fishery Protection Vessel, which recently arrived at Bangor harbour from Estonia. The FPV 'Banrion Uladh' has been constructed over the past 12 months ...
American Vanguard Corporation announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Amvac Chemical Corporation, has completed the acquisition of two insecticide product lines from Bayer CropScience, LLC. The first includes the global product line relating to the active ingredient ...
Three years after launching the brand Marlene in Spain, the Italian consortium VOG has started a new marketing initiative: tastings in major wholesale markets. This series of tastings in the major wholesale markets will enable professionals and food business operators to enjoy ...
Owens-Illinois (OI) has agreed to acquire glass packaging firm Hebei Rixin Glass Group in a deal aimed at opening up opportunities in the growing mass beer market in China. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed but OI said the deal includes two plants in the ...
Uruguayan fruit producers are getting ready to enter United States market in 2011 with Citrus fruits exports, according to the President of the Uruguayan Fruits Producers and Exporters Union (Upefruy)-Horacio Ozer Ami, after the Southern Hemisphere Conference-Congreso del ...
The European Union scrapped a herbicide tariff against China, ending more than a decade of trade protection for producers in the bloc such as Monsanto Co. and Syngenta AG. The EU said the 29.9 percent duty on glyphosate, which farmers use to remove weeds before crop planting, is ...
JAKARTA, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- A technical research program aimed at developing best hybrid rice variety for Indonesia jointly conducted by Indonesian and Chinese scientists was launched here on Wednesday with the effective research period set to due in 2013. The launching of the ...
ChemChina, a leading Chinese chemicals manufacturer, plans to buy a controlling stake in Israel's Makhteshim Agan Industries for $1.44bn. The proposed deal to buy a 60 per cent stake in MA Industries, a leading manufacturer of crop protectants such as pesticides, would be one of ...
The pressures driving grain prices to two-year highs will not subside for at least a year, the head of a leading agricultural trader has said in a warning that deepens short-term worries about food price inflation. But Alberto Weisser, chief executive of Bunge, rejected a growing ...
BEIJING, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Land degradation in China poses a challenge to the country's future food supply, a U.N. envoy said. China has lost 20.2 million acres of arable land because of urbanization or industrialization, forest replanting programs and damage caused by natural ...
BEIJING -- Convicting food safety whistleblowers in China has a "chilling effect" on other activists, a UN envoy said Thursday, after the November jailing of a man who campaigned for victims of a tainted milk scandal. Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on the right to ...
Trina Solar Ltd. said Monday it plans to invest about $800 million over the next three years in research and development facilities. The Chinese solar maker said the investment in the Changzhou Trina PV Park will help expand the company's manufacturing capacity. This year, Trina ...
Representatives of the Taiwan Technical Mission today signed a contract with the La Inmaculada Credit Union Limited, to carry out a pilot project in papaya exportation with small farmers in the Orange Walk and Corozal Districts. The project will be carried out through an ICDF...
CHINA - Hiru Corporation has launched Jiangxi Fisheries Biology Co. to continue its expansion into aquaculture. Following the news from September, when the company announced signing a reservoir lease contract in Nanchang County, the company set up Jiangxi Fisheries Biology Co. ...
CHINA - Ocean University of China has set up a postdoctoral academic exchange platform to promote marine economy studies in Qingdao. On 16 December, 'Modern Marine Sciences and Marine Economy' National Postdoctoral Academic Forum was held at the Academic Exchange Center of ...
TAIWAN & EL SALVADOR - Taiwan has donated more than US$640,000 to support fisheries and aquaculture projects in El Salvador. On 21 December, the Ambassador of the Republic of China (Taiwan) in El Salvador, Carlos Liao, presented the first payment of US$641,667 as part of the ...
Guo Jiang-long, Guo Jin-zhan and Guo Shu-fen--all around thirty years old, have successfully created an agricultural miracle in Yunlin County's Mailiao, with their lettuce racking up export value of NT$80 million (US$2.67 million) last year. This year they are expected to be ...
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Bill Gates talks nuclear
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