Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Food Crops News 206








Inquirer.net

Super Typhoon Yolanda-hit farmers to reap bountiful harvest—UN
... seed supplies to grow crops following the devastating Yolanda that struck during planting season, the UN food agency said Monday, March 10. AFP.
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The Daily Meal

Pesticides in Our Food Are Not As Scary As We Thought
What this farmer is spraying on his crops is not much cause for alarm, ... Pesticide-food scares have been popping up in media outlets for years now, ...
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IPPmedia

Disease ravages Tanzania crops
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania - The spread of crop diseases is threatening food security in the two main regions of the Lake Zone. The diseases ...
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Daily News

Local traders export surplus grains
TANZANIA has started exporting food following the bumper harvest of crops recorded last year, the Permanent Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of ...
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Livemint

Need to produce 60% more food by 2050 : UN
"As the global population rises and the pressure increases on our global food system, so does our dependence on the global crops and production ...
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Hindustan Times

Storms batter half of India, damage farms and crops
Storms battered farms in nine states and threaten to hold up harvesting of the main winter or rabi crop, which accounts for 50% of India's total food ...
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Aflatoxin Contamination Poses Huge Challenge to Food Safety
The main cereals affected are maize, sorghum, rice and wheat and other crops like groundnuts and cassava. Agricultural products contaminated with ...
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Daily News & Analysis

Crop over 6.72 lakh ha damaged in Maharashtra
"Over 50, 000 hectares of fruit crops and food crops on 6.20 lakh hectares ... Sangli and Ahmednagar districts have also suffered agricultural losses.
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Do you know your GMOs?
To shoppers, that means popular crops like corn and soybeans have been ... At issue is whether GMOs are an innovation capable of reducing food ...
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Worldwide uniform diet is dangerous
They say it's not good for health to rely on such a short list of major food crops, because it makes the global food supply dependent on such a short list ...
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Cultivate Iowa program promotes sharing of garden crops
Cultivate Iowa is an initiative of the Iowa Food System Council's Food ... Crops include the basic tomatoes, peppers and corn, as well as apples, pears ...
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Govt takes appropriates measures to increase agri crops, ensure food security
ISLAMABAD: To increase agriculture production and ensure food security, the government has taken various measures to ensure availability of seed, ...
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Biotech crops in 175M hectares worldwide
In all of Asia, biotech food crops are advancing, he said, with China pushing papaya, Bangladesh developing eggplant, sugar cane in Indonesia and ...
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Your Views: We need sense, dignity and freedom from fossil fuel
After genius public policy experts told farmers to go west, plow up the grass and plant food crops, nature took revenge by blowing dried-up topsoil all ...
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IPPmedia

Another blow to farmers as new invasive `killer` weed emerges
... where the new weed is complicating the area's already perilous food situation by 'eating up' staple crops within days, The Guardian can reveal.
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Winners and Losers When Crop Prices Drop
Crop commodity prices contribute to the overall sales and margins realized by agricultural technology companies, renewable fuel companies, and ...
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ATO eyes anti-GM groups
“To facilitate their fundraising efforts in the campaign against the farmers who chose to grow the GM crops, the Safe Food Foundation has advertised ...
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Will Coggin: Don't fear genetically modified food
Kiwis, like other food crops, didn't exist in their present form in nature; the ancestral gooseberry was an unpalatable albeit edible fruit from China.
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spyghana.com

Tester seeks coexistence between farmers and GMO crops
But each GMO crop approved has sparked a lawsuit from organic farmers worried about cross pollination. In 2007, the Center for Food Safety ...
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Issues swirl around insuring America's crops
Agriculture is sometimes defined as "production of food and fiber," yet this county produces wine grapes, flowers, indoor plants and Christmas trees.
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Oman Daily Observer

Middle East drought a threat to global food prices
AMMAN (Reuters) - The Middle East's driest winter in several decades could pose a threat to global food prices, with local crops depleted and farmers' ...
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Business Standard

UP clocks maximum food grain production in India
The food grain production in Uttar Pradesh during 2012-13 crop year (July-June) has once again topped its peers at about 50.84 million tonnes (MT).
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ASA tackles domestic issues, farm policy
Opposes cash humanitarian assistance that replaces in-kind food aid. ... on best adaptations for crops and livestock, implementation of conservation ...
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John Givens recommends plump, vibrant green sugar snaps
Five miles west along the coast from Santa Barbara, sugar snap pea plants grown by veteran organic farmer John Givens ... food@latimes.com · print.
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Urban farming pushed to help attain food self-sufficiency
The bill institutionalizes city farming in highly urbanized areas to promote the production, processing and marketing of food crops and livestock ...
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Zee News

Moily defends nod for GM field trials for food crops
Bangalore: Union Environment Minister M Veerappa Moily on Wednesday said permission for gene modification field trials for certain food crops had ...
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Seed Vault Sows Survival of Mankind's Food Crops
March 5 (Bloomberg) -- Cary Fowler, chair at Svalbard Global Seed Vault, explains efforts to preserve crops for the future in global seed banks on ...
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San Francisco Chronicle

Crop donation credit extended
In the past, Oregon gave farmers a tax credit of 10 percent of the wholesale value of crops donated to the Oregon Food Bank. SB 1541 reinstates the ...
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Country likely to achieve wheat target for 2013-14
Dr Waseemul Hassan, Deputy Food Security Commissioner-I told Business Recorder that it is expected that the country would achieve Rabi crops ...
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TheFishSite.com

Food Production in US May Need to Change if Climate Does
In a paper published in the journal Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, ... In that time, over 100 crops were harvested and livestock production ...
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Rains severely damage crops in parts of Maharashtra
Sangli: Standing crops, including food-grains, grapes and vegetables, suffered severe damage during rains and hailstorms which have lashed parts of ...
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Barfblog

Stricter Controls Of Wastewater Reuse On Crops Needed To Meet WHO Guidelines
WASHINGTON, March 5, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Wastewater used to irrigate agricultural crops in countries where water is scarce may ...
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Guardian Liberty Voice

Buzz on honey bees
The honey bee is the primary pollinating species for most of our food crops, and native species of other bees and insects are also essential. In fact ...
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Scientist (blog)

Crop Coalescence
FLICKR, ALLTRAIN43Although national crop commodities diversified from 1961 to 2009, the global food supply became more homogeneous, ...
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