Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Food Crops News 93


FOOD CROPS Food Crops News 93 (Bản tin Cây Lương thực Quốc tế)
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Nanomaterials contaminating soil, food crops?
Hill Post
By: HP Bureau. File Photo: A bountiful harvest. Washington: Man-made
nanomaterials (MNMs), used in popular cosmetic products such as shampoos,
gels, hair dyes and sunscreens, may also be contaminating the quality and
yield of food crops, says a study.
<http://hillpost.in/2012/08/22/nanomaterials-contaminating-soil-food-crops/49255/environment/hp_bureau>
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Drought and ethanol crunch US corn crop
Energy Collective
There's a lot of fear-mongering in the media about the impact of the U.S.
drought on food production and what that means for the future. A look at
the crop supply data, available from the USDA feed grains yearbook, tells
the full story, and it is not ...
<http://theenergycollective.com/simondonner/105461/drought-and-ethanol-crunch-us-corn-crop>
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Has rain ruined Britain's fruit crops?
BBC News
Record-breaking rain in the UK has blemished apples, split cherries and
kept customers from pick-your-own summer berry fields. Are Britain's fruit
crops ruined? August is a major harvesting month in the UK, as the apple
season begins and early ...
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/0/19244461>
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Fighting the Food Crisis: Pray For Rain, Plant More Crops
Yahoo! Finance (blog)
Despite those historic price hikes and widespread worries, spiraling food
prices - like all forms of inflation - have yet to materialize to any great
degree. In fact, Taylor points out that the crop-to-shop ratio is not a
1-to-1 correlation. "Corn ...
<http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/fighting-food-crisis-pray-rain-plant-more-crops-145455357.html>
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Frankenfood or crops of the future? Gaps in the perception of GM food safety
Biofortified
By David Tribe, University of Melbourne, reposted from The Conversation.
Humans have always faced tricky safety problems with food because we eat
plants, which are the most ingenious pesticide chemists on the planet.
Plants produce an amazing panoply ...
<http://www.biofortified.org/2012/08/frankenfood-or-crops-of-the-future-gaps-in-the-perception-of-gm-food-safety/>
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Kenya steps up measures to contain deadly maize disease
Orlando Sentinel
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya has asked farmers to burn tracts of maize fields
and plant alternative crops to mitigate the spread of a deadly maize virus
that has the potential to wipe out 80 percent of the crop, a senior
official in the Ministry of ...
<http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-08-22/features/sns-rt-us-kenya-maizebre87l0fr-20120822_1_maize-production-food-prices-alternative-crops>
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Food: Apple crops arrive early, but drought makes for dicey harvest
Eudora News
With many buyers just beginning to realize it's apple time, Ernie
Richardson's Gala crop has already come and gone. Normally, Richardson
said, his Gala trees would be just ready for harvest. But the early variety
showed up at least three weeks ahead of ...
<http://www.eudoranews.com/news/2012/aug/22/food-apple-crops-arrive-early-drought-makes-dicey-/>
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FCI Trade Summit Miami Sets Stage for Record Crop Protection Sales
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Investment in food productivity is rising rapidly as the world prepares to
feed more than 9 billion by 2050. The crop protection industry – major
contributors to achieving better yields – met in Miami Aug. 6-8 for the
industry's largest event in the ...
<http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2012/08/22/fci-trade-summit-miami-sets-stage-record-crop-protection-sales>
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A good crop at the Worcester County jail
Worcester Telegram
Plus patrons of local food pantries are getting locally-grown and
transported vegetables at a time when drought conditions across the country
threaten to dent family wallets. But the greatest impact of the program is
on the dozen or so work release ...
<http://www.telegram.com/article/20120822/NEWS/108229913/0/NEWS03>
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Food prices may rise as rain, drought hit harvest
Irish Times
HIGHER FOOD prices could be on the way in the autumn because of problems
with the grain harvest at home and abroad, UCD's professor of crop science
Jimmy Burke has said. His latest research suggests that the recent
unfavourable weather will push ...
<http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0823/1224322767898.html>
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Nanoparticle 'risk' to food crops -- Health & Wellness -- Sott.net
A pair of widely used chemicals in the form of tiny "nanoparticles" have
been shown to spread throughout a crop plant or affect growth and soil
fertility. The use of ...
<http://www.sott.net/articles/show/250024-Nanoparticle-risk-to-food-crops>

Nanomaterials contaminating soil, food crops? - Chennai Vision
Nanomaterials contaminating soil, food crops? Washington, Aug 22 (IANS)
Man- made nanomaterials (MNMs), used in popular cosmetic products such as
...
<http://www.chennaivision.com/news/2012/4118.php>

Abstract - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Juxtaposed against widespread land application of wastewater treatment
biosolids to food crops, these findings forewarn of agriculturally
associated human and ...
<http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/08/14/1205431109.abstract>

Disease is Scientifically Linked to Genetic Engineering of Food Crops
And then one of our main crops would be sold at the local market. What we
didn't sell or consume would then be canned as a provisional food source
for our ...
<http://mirrorathlete.com/blog/2012/08/22/disease-is-scientifically-linked-to-genetic-engineering-of-food-crops/>

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