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Kenya khat traders eye Chinese market
Nairobi (AFP) Jan 16, 2009Kenya's khat farmers and traders are seeking to expand beyond their traditional Somali chewing markets to make a foray into China, they said in a statement Friday. Khat - or "miraa" as it is sometimes referred to - is a mild narcotic leaf chewed by millions in Somalia but a controlled substance in many countries. "Our aim is to diversify from the traditional export markets for miraa of ... more Insect plague devours Liberian crops 
Monrovia (AFP) Jan 18, 2009Hundreds of thousands of insects known as army worms have attacked several towns and villages in central Liberia, destroying an important quantity of crops, Liberia's government said Sunday. A seven-strong team of experts had reported back from Belefania and Bong districts saying that the situation there was "alarming and worsening", Agriculture Minister Christopher Toe told journalists. ... more Drought-hit Kenya declares 'national disaster' 
Nairobi (AFP) Jan 16, 2009Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Friday declared food shortages facing 10 million people a "national disaster" and launched an appeal for 400 million dollars in foreign aid. "My government has with effect from today, declared the famine situation in the country a national disaster," Kibaki said in a speech in Nairobi. Kibaki announced a raft of measures aimed at countering the effects of ... more China couple first to take milk payout: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 16, 2009The parents of a child killed by tainted milk powder in China became the first to accept compensation and give up the right to sue the company at the heart of the scandal, state press said Friday. The unnamed couple have accepted 200,000 yuan (29,250 dollars) from the Sanlu Group over the death of their five-month-old son last year, Xinhua news agency said. He is believed to be the first ... more Standardising Greywater Treatment Technologies 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jan 16, 2009A new protocol for testing greywater treatment technologies in Australia could boost efforts to conserve the nation's water resources. CSIRO's Water for a Healthy Country Flagship and the Smart Water Fund (a joint initiative of Melbourne's water businesses and the Victorian Government) have developed a practical, robust, sustainable method for testing whether greywater treatment technologi ... more |
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Jakarta (AFP) Jan 15, 2009Indonesia will allow trawling in selected areas for the first time in 30 years despite concerns about overfishing, an official said Thursday. Trawling, in which boats tow long nets that scoop up everything in their path, would be permitted this year off four areas of Borneo island's east Kalimantan province, maritime ministry official Bambang Sutejo said. He dismissed concerns about over ... more Climate Change And Food Supplies 
Seattle WA (SPX) Jan 14, 2009Rapidly warming climate is likely to seriously alter crop yields in the tropics and subtropics by the end of this century and, without adaptation, will leave half the world's population facing serious food shortages, new research shows. To compound matters, the population of this equatorial belt - from about 35 degrees north latitude to 35 degrees south latitude - is among the poorest on ... more Russia, China spur worldwide demand for wine: study 
Paris (AFP) Jan 13, 2009With consumers in Russia and China developing a taste for wine, worldwide demand is expected to climb until 2012 despite the economic downturn, a French study said Tuesday. "We believe that the effects of the economic crisis will be limited" in the wine sector, said Robert Beynat, director of Vinexpo, one of the world's biggest wine fairs held annually in Bordeaux. Russia and China are e ... more Adding High Doses Of Sludge To Neutralise Soil Acidity Not Advisable 
Basque, Spain (SPX) Jan 14, 2009A University of the Basque Country PhD thesis has analysed the application of waste sludge from EDAR (Estacion Depuradora de Aguas Residuales - Waste Water Purification Plant) to acid soils which have limited capacity for neutralising the acidity. Sludge obtained from water purification plants can be reused, as fertiliser for soils, for example or to reduce their acidity. The main aim of ... more CSIRO Sells Wool Scour To Australian Business 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jan 14, 2009CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering in Geelong, Victoria, has finalised a contract for the sale of its small-scale wool scouring line to an Australian company. The purchaser is carpet manufacturer, Velieris Pty Ltd of Thomastown, Victoria. The scour is likely to be decommissioned and delivered to Velieris in early 2009. CSIRO will con ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Jan 12, 2009The World Bank urged China Monday to raise water prices to encourage people to use less water and to promote efficiency in a bid to prevent a "severe water scarcity crisis." "To provide appropriate incentives for the adoption of water saving technologies and behaviours, water prices need to be allowed to rise to reflect its full scarcity value," the bank said in a report published Monday. ... more Myanmar rat infestation causing food crisis: NGO 
Yangon (AFP) Jan 12, 2009Tens of thousands of people in remote northwestern Myanmar faced a food crisis after their farmlands were destroyed by a rat infestation, a non-governmental organisation said Monday. The infestation erupted two years ago in Chin state, which borders Bangladesh and India, and some residents were now receiving rice handouts, said Joseph Win Hlaing Oo, director of the Country Agency for Rural ... more China steps up food inspections ahead of Spring Festival 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 12, 2009China announced Monday it was stepping up food inspections ahead of the Spring Festival holiday in a bid to prevent safety scares following the nation's tainted milk scandal. "Every locality... must increase supervision and inspection of markets important for the holiday, and important food companies and restaurants," Mao Qun'an, a spokesman for the Health Ministry, told reporters. ... more China says 296,000 children fell ill from tainted milk 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 12, 2009China said Monday that a total of 296,000 children had fallen ill from consuming dairy products tainted with the industrial chemical melamine, up 2,000 from the previous official count. The health ministry also told reporters at a briefing that a total of 52,898 babies had been treated in hospital for kidney problems caused by the toxic ingredient. Of these, 52,582 had been discharged. ... more Turning Lunar Dust Into Gold 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 13, 2009On Hawai'i's Mauna Kea volcano, which rises over 13,000 feet above sea level, there is a mid-level base facility where scientists can pretend they are on the moon. Hawai'i's volcanic terrain, soil and remote environment provide an ideal environment for testing instruments and equipment that someday may be used by astronauts at a lunar base. Recently, a team of scientists working for the Pa ... more
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