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| Viet Nam to reap bountiful rice crops | | 2008-06-05 10:15:00 | | Backed by good weather, the rice fields across Viet Nam are showing signs of bringing a bumper harvest that is expected to yield enough rice to export between 4-4.5 million tonnes this year, an agriculture expert said.
According to the Head of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Plantation Department, Nguyen Tri Ngoc, by the end of May, the Winter-Spring rice in the north were | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
| | The Folly of Making Ethanol From Food Crops | | 2008-05-21 06:41:13 | | Why is it that stupid ideas find so many followers? European Governments, the US Federal Government, and an increasing number of US State Governments have issued legislation that requires the use of ethanol in cars.Making ethanol from corn was promoted by the US agricultural lobby as the best approach for producing biofuels. None of the decision makers listened to the advice of scientists, who pointed out correctly, that the benefits of ethanol were minute. Ethanol is incapable of reducing consumption of petroleum-derived fuels and of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Almost all of the food producing acreage in the US must be converted to growing corn before a sizeable reduction in foreign petroleum imports can be expected.For the agricultural lobby the financial rewards of the ethanol craze have been spectacular. When future prices of corn began to escalate, more and more farmers decided to plant corn in favor of other crops like soybean and wheat. Predictably, food prices started so | | By: Global Warming Articles - Information on Global Wa | | |
| | News: The World According to Monsanto: The Horror of Commercial GM Crops. | | 2008-04-27 04:14:11 | | Reading through all the news about the global food crisis, I lacked one thing: the solution to this problem or even the slightest hint to one.In many discussion fora and through comments on social bookmarking sites, it was often suggested that genetically modified (GM) crops, said to yield a higher production, and to be more pest-resistant, could mean the solution to world hunger.I started to search around for more info on genetically modified organism (GMO) or genetically engineered organism (GEO), and came across several posts referring to a video called "The World According to Monsanto" by a French independent filmmaker, Marie-Monique Robin.The movie researches the credibility of (or rather lack thereof) US based Monsanto, one of the biggest chemical companies in the world and the provider of the seed technology for 90 percent of the world’s genetically engineered (GE) crops.Here is what Greenpeace has to say about the movie, and the company:The story starts in the White House, wh | | By: The Road to the Horizon | | |
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| GM crops yield less, not more, food | | 2008-04-21 21:10:24 | | For the last three years the University of Kansas has been studying genetically modified soybean crops. Professor Barney Gorden in the agronomy department started the study because some farmers in the region who were using genetically modified soybeans said their crop yields were down. So Gorden grew a Monsanto GM version in one field and regular soybeans in another. The GM modified field produced 70 bushels to the 77 bushels produced by the non-modified field-- a 10% difference!It turned out that the GM crops needed more manganese, and something about the GM Monsanto seeds-- modified to resist Monsanto's own Roundup weedkiller-- prevented the mineral's uptake. The crops recovered when extra manganese was added, but still, the yield only equaled, not exceeded, the yield of the non-modified. Farmers, of course, would have to pay the extra cost of the manganese.Meanwhile, some countries that have resisted buying GM because of public mistrust are changing their policies. Japan and | | By: Michaelann Land | | |
| | Shift from traditional crops to horticulture | | 2007-05-02 07:00:00 | | Pib.nic.inThere is an increase both in the area and production of horticulture crops which indicates a shift from traditional crops to horticulture including floriculture.
National Horticulture Mission has been launched in the country during 10th plan with effect from 2005-06 for holistic development of horticulture sector duly ensuring horizontal and vertical linkages with the active participation of all the stake-holders. All the States and Union Territories of India are covered under the Mission except the eight North Eastern States including Sikkim and the States of Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Uttaranchal which have been covered under the Technology Mission for integrated development of horticulture in the North Eastern States (TMNE). Under the Scheme, assistance is provided to the farmers for taking up various activities related to Horticulture and Floriculture such as area coverage, rejuvenation of senile orchards, protected cultivation, organic farming, promotion of | | By: The Flower Expert - Flowers Encyclopedia | | |
| | Cold Weather bring problems For Flowers, Crops | | 2007-04-07 07:00:00 | | NwaonlineImpatient planters who planted impatiens face a flower fiasco from frigid April weather.
Stephen Black, owner of Westwood Gardens in Northwest Arkansas, said he warns buyers of annual plants, such as impatiens and petunias, to resist the urge to plant until the middle of April, when the threat of freezing temperature recedes.
A recent cold snap brought snow and freezing temperatures Thursday night and the mercury is expected to drop more this weekend. This chill means taking extra precautions for those who planted early... | | By: The Flower Expert - Flowers Encyclopedia | | |
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| Insects posing problem for gardens and crops | | 2007-02-14 07:00:00 | | Bradenton A nagging problem is cropping up in Florida's rose gardens and pepper plants.
A growing concern in central Florida and among Manatee County's ornamentals, the chilli thrip insect scrapes the tissue of plants, causing the plant to ooze fluids, which the pest consumes. The process turns the plant bronze and eventually kills it.
Scientists are exploring the worst case scenario - the spread of virus by the insect and devastation of plants like roses, ornamentals and vegetables like peppers... | | By: The Flower Expert - Flowers Encyclopedia | | |
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