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Pakistani farmers in desperate need of wheat seeds: FAORome (AFP) Sept 1, 2010 Pakistani farmers are in desperate need of wheat seeds for the next sowing season after floods devastated much of the country's farmland and seed stock, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation said on Wednesday. "Unless people get seeds over the next few weeks they will not be able to plant wheat for a year," said Daniele Donati, director for FAO emergency operations in Asia, the Middle East and Europe. "Food aid alone will not be enough. If the next wheat crop is not salvaged, the food secur ... read more |
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Riverside CA (SPX) Aug 27, 2010Drought-tolerant crops have moved closer to becoming reality. A collaborative team of scientists has made a significant advance on the discovery last year by the University of California, Riverside's Sean Cutler of pyrabactin, a synthetic chemical that mimics a naturally produced stress hormone in plants to help them cope with drought conditions. Led by researchers at The Medical College o ... more  
Geneva (AFP) Aug 26, 2010The UN said Thursday an insecticide used in farming and to treat woodworm, Lindane, was among nine highly toxic chemicals added to a "dirty dozen" of dangerous substances on an international red list. The eight others added to the Stockholm Convention under changes that came into force on Thursday are also used commercially in some countries as pesticides or industrial flame retardants, the ... more  
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 26, 2010In early August 2005, Katrina was just a name. By September, it had become synonymous with the costliest and one of the deadliest tropical cyclones in U.S. history. Five years later, NASA is revisiting Hurricane Katrina with a short video that shows the storm as captured by NASA satellites. NASA provides space-based satellite observations, field research missions, and computer climate mode ... more |
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Pakistan cotton crop failure hands opportunity to IndiaMumbai (AFP) Aug 25, 2010 Pakistan's devastating floods may have destroyed up to a fifth of the country's cotton crop, analysts say, handing an opportunity to exporters in neighbouring India who are eyeing the shortfall. Indian producers will seek to take advantage of a government decision last week to lift a ban on exports to help meet demand from Pakistan's textile industry. The restriction was imposed in April to keep domestic prices down. Armed with a bumper crop after a good monsoon, Indian groups are expected to be ... read more |
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