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Australian Grape Glut Dries Up as Drought Bites

...the grip of the six-year drought. In Australia's agricultural heartland further south, the Murray-Darling River region which is home to about 65 percent of the country's viticulture, grape growers labour under severe water restrictions. "Even if we have got rain, production in the Murray Darling Basin is goin...

Bioparasite Envisioned To Control Terror Of Fire Ants

...s could offer a tool to the pest-control industry, agricultural producers and harvesters, consumers and others for whom fire ants are a persistent problem.The virus is not the sole one in the fight against the fire ant. In South America, there are dozens of natural enemies. Yet, researchers are unsure of whethe...

China Eyeing US Cooked Chickens Market

...sk. Congress has to look at limiting some of their agricultural imports." But officials in Washington are scrambling to work out something that both the Chinese and Americans can agree on. The Department of Agriculture's proposal is "to allow chickens raised, slaughtered, and cooked in China to be sold in the...

Hundreds of Children Exposed to Pesticide in US

.... Apparently hundreds of school children in many agricultural states have been exposed to farm chemicals, leadin... what it can to enforce the law with a shortage of agricultural inspectors. In the case of the incident reported earlier, county agricultural inspectors never swa...

Climate Change Threatening to Wipe Out Wild Relatives of Key Crops

...producing at their current levels, said Jarvis, an agricultural geographer working at two CGIAR-supported centres ...recisely the time they are most needed to maintain agricultural production, added Annie Lane, the coordinator of a global project on crop wild relatives led by Biov...

Climate Change Reorganized Tibetan Culture 700 Years Ago: Study

...o have some evidence of large-scale abandonment of agricultural fields. The team will return to Tibet this summer to continue their investigations. Aldenderfer said intensity is likely to increase and thus cause more erosion. He believes the Tibetan plateau, like all mountainous areas, is likely to exper...

Researchers Discover Starch Cocktail Fuel for green Car

...o use cellulose from plants, such as wood chip and agricultural waste. The enzymes would produce hydrogen in real-time, as your engine needs it, said Zhang. "If the financial support is sufficient, within three to five years, this technology will be applied to high-end markets such as cellular phone and laptop ...

Olive Stones to Depollute Industrial Sewage Water

...ver olive oil is obtained: what can we do with its agricultural residues, such as olive vegetable water, browse le...hich enables certain types of biomass for example, agricultural residues- to retain the hard metals found in industrial sewage water. The main advantage of this res...

Fire Ants are Emerging Nuisance for Virginians

...urban areas and are not currently an issue for the agricultural industry. In other states, however, RIFAs pose a threat to both crops and livestock. They feed on almost any plant or animal material, alive or dead, and are known to damage more than 50 cultivated plants such as corn, sorghum, and soybeans by feedin...

25 Pesticides Banned in India, Others Face Partial Curbs

...les with this complex issue at the intersection of agricultural productivity and environmental safety, the government has also acknowledged that there are four pesticide formulations banned for "import, manufacture and use" and another seven pesticides on the "withdrawn" list. Another 18 pesticides have been "r...

World Environment Day (International Polar Year)

...gases emission rates. Recent observations point to agricultural activities, emissions from industries and automobiles as the most likely causes of global warming. Taking steps to cut down burning of fossil fuels, deforestation and limiting the use of CFCs would significantly bring down the concentration of greenh...

New Bird Flu Case in Hong Kong

...e for the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in Hong Kong, agricultural officials said Friday. Authorities said laboratory tests had confirmed that the bird, found dead last week in the rural New Territories area, was infected with the killer strain. They warned of personal contact with wild birds and live poultry. It...

FAO Says Biofuels Threatening Food Security

...nd develop long-term strategies for world food and agricultural biodiversity....

13 Million Die Worldwide Due to Unhealthy Environment: New WHO Report

...ards in the work environment, UV radiation, noise, agricultural risks, climate and ecosystem change. In some countries, more than one third of the disease burden could be prevented through environmental improvements. The worst affected countries include Angola, Burkina Faso and Mali, as well as Afghanistan. In ...

Environmental Problems Take Huge Toll of Lives Across the Globe

...lution, occupational factors, UV radiation, noise, agricultural methods, climate and ecosystem change, the constructed environment and people's behavior." This means that deaths and injuries as a result of road accidents, for example, are also taken into account....

Vanishing Honey Bees

...iness. They contribute $15 billion to the nation's agricultural output. The U.S. Congress held hearings last month to consider remedial measures, including ways to compensate beekeepers for their losses and to prevent the spread any harmful fungus or disease. Source-Google...

Kenya to Implement National Food and Nutrition Policy

...actionable plan. The scope of the plan ranges from agricultural production, strategic grain reserves, and post-har...eeting were as follows: ? Forming a consensus on agricultural production and food trade issues ? Establishing a life-cycle approach to organize nutritional inte...

Scientists Find Rice Gene for Grain Size and Yield

...ed weight in plants, despite tremendous efforts by agricultural scientists in the past decade. In a study published this week (8 April) in Nature Genetics, lead author Lin Hongxuan and colleagues from the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, studied two varieties of rice with highly significant differen...

Drug Uses Up Water in Yemeni Capital, People Must Relocate

...d the environment, Dr Abdulrahman al-Eryani, is an agricultural engineer. 'The Sanaa basin is using water 10 times faster than Nature is replenishing it,' he said. 'And before long there won't even be enough to drink. I am not an optimist. I think many of the city's people will simply have to move away, ' he...

Scare in Assam Over Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine

...viral disease spread by infected mosquitoes in the agricultural regions of Asia and affects the central nervous system and can cause severe complications and even death. The Japanese encephalitis virus has a complex life cycle involving domestic pigs and a specific type of culex mosquito that lives in rural ric...

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