Saturday, December 1, 2012

Food Crops News 136




Food Crops News 136 update new global food crops from 19 Nov. 2012 to 30 Nov. 2012


Genetic breakthrough could guarantee wheat supplies
Channel 4 News

A group of international scientists has cracked the complex genetic code of
wheat, offering the prospect of global food security in one of the world s
most important crops. A group of international scientists has cracked the
complex genetic code of ...
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Researchers Unlock Secrets of Wheat Genome
Wall Street Journal

Scientists analyzing the complex genome of bread wheat say they have
identified characteristics that could help them make the crucial food crop
more productive, nutritious and resistant to drought. The research,
published in the journal Nature, used a ...
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Scout plants trees for food bank
Oconee Enterprise

The food bank has about five acres of fertile land behind its
headquarters—land, Becker said, that can be utilized more by local
farmers and crop growers. “I told [Dix] at his ceremony that it really
had me thinking about how we work with the property ...
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Group advises on California specialty crop program
The Packer

The Environmental Working Group said the California Department of Food and
Agriculture is on the right track with the recent changes made to
requisites for specialty crop block grants. But the Washington, D.C.-based
advocacy group said it believes more ...
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Why Nigeria Will Not Experience Food Crisis - Agric Minister
AllAfrica.com

Nigeria's total cultivated area under crops is 40 million hectares of land.
That means that the cultivated areas estimated to have experienced crop
loss affected was only 1.17 percent of the total cultivated crop area in
Nigeria. It is clear that ...
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Peru bans genetically modified foods as US lags
Current TV (blog)

Peru has said no to genetically modified food, with a 10-year ban on GMO
food taking effect this week. Peru isn't the only country to restrict or
ban the use of GMO crops. But in the U.S., GMO crops are prevalent and
efforts to label GMO foods have yet ...
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Sufficient inputs available for Rabi crops: API
Pakistan Observer

Thursday, November 29, 2012 - Islamabad—Sufficient inputs like seed,
water and fertilizers are available for the sowing of Rabi crops,
particularly wheat - the major food crop of the season. According to the
estimates of Indus River System Authority ...
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India's GM Food Hypocrisy
Wall Street Journal

In October, a technical committee appointed by India's Supreme Court
recommended a 10-year blanket ban on field trials of genetically engineered
food crops. Scientists harshly criticized this recommendation, noting that
the committee ignored copious ...
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Delayed Argentine corn crop to buoy world food prices
agprofessional.com

Flood-hit Argentina will harvest corn later than expected this season,
supporting already-high world food prices as consumer nations are forced to
rely longer on thin U.S. supplies. Argentina is the No. 2 corn exporter
after the United States, where ...
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Synthetic fuels could eliminate entire US need for crude oil
R & D Magazine

The United States could eliminate the need for crude oil by using a
combination of coal, natural gas, and non-food crops to make synthetic
fuel, a team of Princeton University researchers has found. Besides
economic and national security benefits, the ...
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Delayed Argentine corn crop to buoy world food prices
Reuters

2 corn exporter after the United States, where the worst drought in decades
trampled this year's crop. With food stocks hit by dry weather in
breadbaskets Russia and Australia as well, importers are looking to South
America. But Argentine growers have ...
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/26/us-argentina-corn-idUSBRE8AP0T120121126>
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18 farmers attend trade fair in South Sudan
Daily News

MINISTER for Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperative, Eng Christopher
Chiza has expressed his concern over local farmers to get less profit from
food crops exportation to the Southern Sudan market. Engineer Chiza said in
Dar es Salaam that most ...
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How Growth Enhancement Support saved us From food shortage —Adesina
Nigerian Tribune

... of the inundation and how soon the flood water will recede for us to
carefully plan our post-flood food production strategy. They also used
satellite images to measure crop plans under inundation to determine crop
loss estimates. “The evidence is ...
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Natural phenomena destroy crops
Latinamerica Press

Haiti did not finish recovering from the earthquake that devastated the
island in January of 2010 when this year two hurricanes and a drought
completely destroyed the crops, putting in danger the food security of one
to two million people, alerted in ...
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Sufficient inputs, 3.4pc extra water available for Rabi crop
Business Recorder (blog)

ISLAMABAD: Sufficient inputs like seed, water and fertilizers are available
for the sowing of Rabi crops particularly major food crop of the season
wheat. According to estimates of Indus River System Authority (IRSA) about
3.4 percent extra water would ...
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A new way to rescue Africa's struggling soils: Planting perennials with crops
Mongabay.com

It sounds counter-intuitive: Grow more food by planting less. But it's a
plan that scientists think will produce enough crops to feed Africa's
quickly expanding population. African farmers who sow food crops mixed with
plants called perennials—which ...
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Focus on local food crops up at Capitol » Abilene Reporter-News ...
Focus on local food crops up at Capitol. By Kelley Shannon Special to the
Reporter-News Published Friday, November 16, 2012. AUSTIN — Local farm
and ...
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Big corporations controlling our food crops is bad news (From The ...
I am writing in answer to the article on food waste and prices written by
Katy Rice (The Argus, November 5).
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Outrage in Nigeria Over Gene Giants Food Crops Coup - Topix
Outrage in Nigeria Over Gene Giants Food Crops Coup. Full story: Scoop.
AROUND 1,000 environmental rights activists, lawyers, scholars, community-
based ...
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EU project fielding crops for fuels - Science Omega
We want to develop these crops to be grown on parcels of land which are
perhaps not as suited to growing food crops. Professor Gail Taylor. A new
Seventh ...
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United Nations DPRKorea The 2012 Crop and Food Security ...
Requested by the Government, the FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment
Mission (CFSAM) visited DPRK from 24 September to 8 October to assess ...
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Weather Turnaround Seen Benefitting Marfrig, Brasil Foods
Bloomberg

“The outlook is bright for Brasil Foods and Marfrig as Brazil will
harvest a record crop,” Saulo Sabba, who helps manage 500 million reais
($241 million) as a director at Banco Maxima SA, said in a telephone
interview from Rio de Janeiro. “I see blue ...
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California does right thing, won't mandate labels for modified food
Minneapolis Star Tribune

Those who fight against genetically engineered crops are fast becoming a
fringe group. Despite years of hard scientific facts, they persist. After
failing for 16 years to prove that biotech foods are any different than
nonbiotech foods, they got a ...
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Outrage in Nigeria over gene giants food crops coup
Outrage in Nigeria over gene giants food crops coup. Friday, 16 November
2012 11:13. Attention: open in a new window. Print E-mail. EXTRACT: "If
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Focus on local food crops up at Capitol
ReporterNews.com

Proposals lawmakers are likely to face after they convene in January will
address food sampling at farmers markets, expanding last session's "cottage
foods" law and reducing barriers for small farms seeking the agricultural
property tax exemption. This ...
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Local restaurants, growers work to bring fresh foods to table
Tbo.com

The state's three regions are wildly different in climate and crops. South
Florida is home to tropical fruits and sugarcane. Northern Florida foods
mimic those of southern Georgia and Alabama. In addition, the entire state
is surrounded by seafood ...
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Food security: Gut issue in Asia, Pacific
Business Mirror

According to the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), we may see the
explosion of global population to 9 billion people resulting in a projected
50-percent growth in the demand for major crops by the year 2050. Also,
environmental stresses are ...
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