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India has risen like a phoenix in the world economy. Fifty years ago it was not able to feed herself and was begging for food with the US. Today it stands tall and is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Its GDP is growing at 9% per...
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The potential of the agricultural sector in Zimbabwe to not only feed the population but also to export the surplus, is immense, as proven by the commercial farmers in...
made popular Dec 6 2010
The war veterans have been a little fractious in their continuing endeavour to secure agricultural land in Zimbabwe and have very recently stated that they will...
made popular Dec 1 2010
In a world that takes for granted the availability of delicious and affordable chocolate, it’s easy to forget that the popular product actually comes from trees...
made popular Nov 9 2010
No, not the novel...The black cloud, the one that covers Egypt every year...is slowly approaching. As dooming as it actually sounds, as doomed we really are.
Egypt has...
made popular Oct 16 2010
Lower crop yields and agricultural production could drive as many as 6.7 million across the border by 2080, a study finds.
made popular Jul 29 2010
A farmer in northern Egypt says his cow has given birth to a two-headed calf that he calls a “divine miracle.”
Sobhy el-Ganzoury said Saturday it took two...
made popular Jul 8 2010
Bolivian government Wednesday declared a national emergency for the ongoing drought that has caused huge damage to the agriculture and livestock in many...
made popular Jun 24 2010
It has been reported in media that this year wheat production from Punjab will be affected due to excessive heat in this month. Dy. Chief Minister has gone on record to...
made popular Mar 26 2010
There are many schools of thought when it comes to land reform – or, as it is known in Zimbabwe, ‘land grab’. Generally speaking, people are split into two...
made popular Mar 16 2010
Endorois is a minority community in Kenya and most people would not have known its existence until recently when it hit headlines after winning a case in which the...
made popular Mar 8 2010
Farmers crying foul play: potato growers will suffer badly……..
Prices of potatoes have fallen and every one is happy……Does it mean that the farmer’s community...
made popular Feb 23 2010
While every day pressure and economic scene being dynamic, no one can deny that Indian farmer’s community is going to face heat of changes. Indian farmers by and...
made popular Feb 4 2010
Eyes worldwide are now focused on Copenhagen, Denmark as the climate meeting opens today. Its’ obvious that Africa has borne the brunt of climate change, and being a...
made popular Dec 11 2009
Temperature in Uganda will rose up to 1.5 degree Celsius over the next two decades. Its damaging agriculture and livelihood of whole communities, according population...
made popular Dec 10 2009
Mexico and Climate Change
With heavily polluting oil industry, heavy use of road transport, and 110 million people, Mexico accounts for about 1.5% of global emissions....
made popular Dec 10 2009
Mexico’s Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, Jeffrey Max Jones, has resigned after causing a stir by announcing Mexican farmers could learn a thing or two from...
made popular Nov 2 2009
Being a Kenyan citizen, sometimes I wonder what would bring an end to the elusive drought that has claimed quite a number of lives as well as animals. I would be quick...
made popular Oct 28 2009
“President Robert Mugabe plans to expel all white farmers from farms and seize all the land, according to a document obtained by The Zimbabwe Times.
The...
made popular Oct 6 2009
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With the Central Govt. and specially our Prime Minister’s keen desire to touch growth of 7-8% in Agriculture sector in coming years and to see that India is able to...
made popular Aug 25 2009
Mrs. Mac is the great Australian pie. New Zealanders also enjoy the humble meat pie of which there are award winning pies in New Zealand.
Conscious awareness of the...
made popular Aug 12 2009
The land grab began in 2000 after the Zimbabwean people voted NO in a referendum to accept a new constitution. Mugabe was angry to the point of being almost...
made popular Jul 8 2009
Research at Massey University has shown that agricultural workers have the highest incidence of leukaemia of all New Zealand occupation groups. The cause is expected to...
made popular Jun 17 2009
The Ministry of Agriculture today said that reports received from the states indicated that Kharif sowing had started in most of them and was progressing well.
made popular Jun 6 2009
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will help Pakistan financially in building grain storage capacity in order to promote research on seeds...
made popular Jun 1 2009
Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply made an upward revision of its estimate for the Brazilian agricultural income this year.
made popular Oct 15 2008
THE adage goes, ‘train a woman and you have trained a nation’. This is philosophy to development, right from the household. Many times it eludes society to the...
made popular Oct 4 2008
India’s rice production in this agriculture year may breach the record output of 96.43 million tons in the last year on the back of increased acreage even as...
made popular Sep 1 2008
GUWAHATI, August 13, 2008
When the Assam Agriculture University has stepped up with their latest Research and Development wing to scan the state’s agricultural...
made popular Aug 15 2008
As we all know that this is the world of ’survival of fittest’, and moreover, it is the consumers who benefit the most. And nothing is wrong in this.
Now,...
made popular Aug 8 2008
A farm irrigation canal would seem a healthier place for toads than a ditch by a supermarket parking lot.
made popular Jul 6 2008
Pakistan is an agriculture based country with most of its population living in rural areas practicing agriculture, yet it is one of the many developing nations facing a...
made popular Jul 6 2008
Farmers who visit Amai Mahalinga Naik’s two-acre plot on the hilltop near Adyanadka in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka return spellbound. Irrigated farming...
made popular Jul 3 2008
The world has suddenly been taken unawares by a food crisis. On a local level we are all witness to rising inflation levels where food prices have shot up. Family...
made popular May 20 2008
Zambia has recorded a food surplus in the midst of rising food prices in the world. This is as a result of good agriculture policies, good rains or weather and personal...
made popular May 10 2008
One of the champions of organized retailing Reliance fresh has just opened in my area, which is one of the oldest localities in South Mumbai which uptill now was served...
made popular Apr 28 2008
In India, if you are in one of the towns or metros, you may now go to an air conditioned store to buy spinach, butter, wheat etc. This is retail boom. This is gold rush...
made popular Apr 28 2008
Father of Modern India, Mahathma Gandhi was a strongest vocal for prosperous rural India, which is inevitable for the country to make strides in the development arena....
made popular Apr 23 2008
The New Face of Hunger is not a stark picture of battered and malnourished children in Ethiopia. It is the rise of commodity prices and super inflation now biting all...
made popular Apr 13 2008
Thousands of farmers are taking their fields out of the government’s biggest conservation program, which pays them not to cultivate.
made popular Apr 9 2008
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FILE - In this June 7, 2005 file photo, rice from Arkansas fields is loaded onto a barge on the Arkansas River in North Little Rock, Ark. With President Barack Obama easing some travel restrictions to Cuba this April, 2009, U.S. agricultural groups have..
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