Crops
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Drought costs Russia one billion dollars in crop losses
Russia's agriculture industry faces losses of over one billion dollars after a record drought destroyed over a quarter of its crops, an official said yesterday. "The losses amount to about 32.7 billion rubles (1.07 billion dollars)," Deputy Agriculture Minister Alexander Petrikov was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying.
25/08/2010
Bangladesh Today
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78pc paddy crop washed away in upper Sindh
About 78 per cent of rice crop in upper Sindh has been wiped out in floods.
According to preliminary estimates of the crop losses submitted to the federal government by the Sindh Agriculture Department, standing rice crops in upper Sindh, mainly Kashmore, Shikarpur, Jacobabad and Kandhkot have completely been washed away under strong torrent of flood waters.
Sources at the agriculture depar
21/08/2010
Dawn (Pakistan)
News
Flouting ban, Italian farmer wages crusade for genetically modified corn
Giorgio Fidenato has made a habit of carrying a raw ear of yellow corn and taking a hearty bite whenever a camera is in sight.
It's a provocation.
20/08/2010
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Check the use of harmful chemicals on horticulture crops
The state government has urged people not to use harmful chemicals and non-edible colours so that their harmful effects on human body can be prevented. The Principal Secretary, Horticulture Department has sent a circular in this connection to all the departmental officers asking them to suggest alternatives to the people with a view to preventing the use of harmful chemicals.
06/08/2010
Central Chronicle (Bhopal)
Reports and Documents
Agricultural biotechnology: a lot more than just GM crops
The booklet discusses in detail and in simple language agricultural biotechnology as it compares with conventional breeding, the agricultural biotechnology tools used in crops such as tissue culture and micropropagation, molecular breeding and marker-assisted selection, and genetic engineering and GM crops.
Aug 2010
International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA)
Reports and Documents
Climate change and the socioeconomics of global food production
The impact of climate change on agriculture depends on the environmental and socio-economic contexts in which the changes occur. However, current tools to anticipate climate change impacts focus almost entirely on biological and environmental processes.
Aug 2010
Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy
Reports and Documents
Ecological farming: drought-resistant agriculture
In this paper Greenpeace illustrates proven, modern farming approaches that help cope with drought using ecological farming. Elaborates on the drought-resistant crop varieties and calls for policy makers to increase funds for research on the system.
Jul 2010
Greenpeace International
News
Jumbo menace hits life
SALEPUR: Residents in the western part of Cuttack district are spending sleepless nights due to rising elephant menace in the region. Besides damaging crops, the animals have been injuring people, particularly in Athagarh and Gurudijhatia region.
28/05/2010
New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
