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New Satellite Images Show Ag Land Cover for 2009 Crop YearWashington DC (SPX) Feb 09, 2010 The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) has announced the release of new satellite images depicting agricultural land cover across most of the nation for the 2009 crop year. The images, referred to as cropland data layers (CDL), are a useful tool for monitoring crop rotation patterns, land use changes, water resources and carbon emissions. These crop-specific, digital data layers are suitable for use in geographic information systems (GIS) applica ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) Feb 5, 2010China said Friday it would slap stiff penalties on a variety of US chicken meat it says is being sold at an unfairly low price, in the latest move likely to up the pressure on strained Sino-US relations. The commerce ministry, in a preliminary ruling, said importers of US broiler chicken in China would have to pay deposits based on the difference - up to 105.4 percent - between the meat's ... more  
Callebasse, Haiti (AFP) Feb 7, 2010"I would like to give up my son again," says Anchello Cantave, a farmer here, who willingly handed over his five-year-old to US missionaries now facing charges of child abduction in Haiti's post-quake chaos. An hour outside of the devastated Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, Callebasse is a poor town set in the mountains, where a massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake on January 12 destroyed 50 home ... more 
Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 4, 2010Chinese officials have banned independent reporting on the latest toxic food scandal involving melamine, a chemical blamed for the deaths of six babies in 2008, a press watchdog said Thursday. The International Federation of Journalists, citing local sources, said censors in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong had ordered that media outlets "must only use information formally release ... more |
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Philippines fears El Nino drought will cut rice yieldsManila (AFP) Feb 2, 2010 A possible drought caused by the El Nino weather system could slash Philippines rice yields this year, the government warned Tuesday, as Manila prepared to deal with any possible crisis. Government models project 2010 rice harvests would be trimmed by up to 816,312 tonnes if a severe drought strikes, Agriculture Undersecretary Bernie Fondevilla said. The fall would be equivalent to five percent of last year's entire yield. This would be on top of 449,429 tonnes reduction in corn, 42,362 tonnes o ... read more |
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