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Brussels wants to cut fishing fleets as stocks dwindle
Brussels (AFP) April 22, 2009Drastic cuts in the European fishing fleet are needed, the EU Commission warned Wednesday, launching a consultation exercise to overhaul a sector which it said is making profits and fish stocks disappear. A raft of ideas are included in a consultative green paper formally adopted by the EU executive on Wednesday. "Nine out of ten fish stocks are exploited beyond their capacity to regener ... more California 2009 Farm And Ranch Lands Protection Program Signup Announced 
Davis CA (SPX) Apr 22, 2009Applicants for the Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program (FRPP), administered by the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), may apply for the program for the 2009 fiscal year between now and June 15, 2009. Ranking and selection of parcels will take place immediately thereafter and funds will be obligated by July 15, 2009. NRCS State Conservationist Ed Burton noted th ... more Diesel Brewing To Help Oregon Achieve Energy Independence 
Salem OR (SPX) Apr 23, 2009Diesel Brewing announced the company has launched its initiative to manufacture cellulosic bio-butanol from Oregon's ample supplies of biomass and dairy farm manure. Bio-butanol is a 100% "green" liquid fuel that can be blended into conventional gasoline or diesel stocks without engine modifications. Compared to corn-based fuel additives, bio-butanol has many favorable properties. Bio-buta ... more Pennsylvania Helping Producers Transition To Organic Farming 
Harrisburg PA (SPX) Apr 22, 2009Pennsylvania producers working to transition their conventional operations to certified organic farms may be eligible for help offsetting the costs of making the change, said Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff. The Path to Organic Program provides grants to farmers switching to certified organic production practices. The application deadline is July 31. "The Path to Organic grants ar ... more Provident Group Advises On Sale Of Large Scale Brazilian Farm 
New York NY (SPX) Apr 22, 2009Provident Group announced that it had completed its advisory assignment for the sale of Fazenda Parceiros, a Brazilian agribusiness company which owned the 7,000 hectare (17,200 US acre) Marianna soybean farming operation located in the western section of the Brazilian state of Bahia. Fazenda Parceiros was controlled by Fazenda Parceiros LLC, a US based holding company capitalized by US pr ... more |
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Washington, April 20, 2009 The good news is that the world's key agricultural ministers convened this weekend for the first time under the auspices of the G8 summit process. The bad news is that they addressed everything except the three large elephants in the room. Two of these elephants are familiar; the massive and market-distorting $300 billion a year spent on food subsidies and protection by the United State ... more Palestinians face dire water shortage: World Bank 
Jerusalem (AFP) April 20, 2009Palestinians face dire water shortages because of both bad Palestinian management and Israeli restrictions, the World Bank said in a report on Monday. The report, the first of its kind, noted the "complete dependence" of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the blockaded Gaza Strip "on scarce water resources shared and largely controlled by Israel." It also underlined that "the joint gover ... more China's poor hope reforms will fix health care 
Siziwangqi, China (AFP) April 19, 2009Wang Jun's eyesight is slowly deteriorating from suspected glaucoma, but there is nothing hazy about his view of China's much-maligned health system. "It's really lacking, really inadequate," said the retired 56-year-old former dairy farm worker, reflecting a view widely held in this country as he awaits treatment in a grubby clinic in northern China. China this month announced plans to ... more Germany's RWE to boost Poland's wind-farm sector 
Warsaw (AFP) April 20, 2009German energy giant RWE said Monday it would invest 500 million euros (652 million dollars) in a series of wind farms in Poland, boosting its involvement in the country's power market. RWE's renewable energy chief, Kevin McCullough, told reporters the group wanted to play a major role in Poland's drive to ensure that 15 percent of its power came from clean sources by 2020. RWE is already ... more Venus Disappears During Meteor Shower 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 20, 2009April 17, 2009: Picture this: It's 4:30 in the morning. You're up and out before the sun. Steam rises from your coffee cup, floating up to the sky where a silent meteor streaks through a crowd of stars. A few minutes later it happens again, and again. A meteor shower is underway. One of the streaks leads to the eastern horizon. There, just above the tree line, Venus and the crescent Moon ... more |
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Rio De Janeiro (AFP) April 17, 2009Brazil has become the world's top consumer of agriculture pesticides, and continues to use a range of dangerous pesticides banned in other countries, according to a study released Friday. The Brazilian pesticide market has boiled to more than 6.9 billion dollars, according to the Brazilian Chemical Industry Association. In the analysis led by Anvisa (Brazil's National Health Surveillance ... more China hauls US to WTO over poultry 
Geneva (AFP) April 17, 2009China on Friday lodged filed a complaint against the United States at the World Trade Organization over "discriminatory" US legislation against Chinese poultry imports. "China considers that the US ... through Section 727, is in breach of its obligations," according to a request for formal consultations filed by the Chinese at the WTO. Beijing had launched the action in the WTO in respon ... more China looks to farmers to boost economy 
Beijing (AFP) April 17, 2009With his sun-baked face and rough peasant hands, 47-year-old Chen Meiji does not look like the saviour of the Chinese economy, but that is the role his government wants people like him to fill. Like hundreds of millions of other farmers, Chen is being offered government subsidies to buy household goods, which is meant to boost rural consumption, and in turn reignite the world's third-largest ... more Germany Bans GM Maize: Monsanto Mulls Legal Action 
Berlin (AFP) April 14, 2009Germany became Tuesday the sixth European Union nation to ban a type of genetically-modified maize manufactured by US biotech giant Monsanto, the only GM crop permitted until now in the country. Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner told reporters she was outlawing the cultivation of MON 810 maize - modified to be super resistant against crop-destroying insects - on environmental grounds. ... more EU cuts Mediterranean tuna fishing to protect stocks 
Brussels (AFP) April 15, 2009The Mediterranean tuna fishing season will be 15 days shorter this year with quotas and fleets also cut, EU sources said Wednesday: but environmentalists complained it was too little, too late. The bluefin fishing season begins officially on Thursday and will end on June 15, two weeks earlier than the scheduled 2008 season. At the same time the European Commission has reduced allowed quo ... more
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