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Boston Globe - We are working around the clock," Obaidullah Ramin, Afghanistan's minister of agriculture, irrigation, and livestock, said in an interview last week. The moves, which follow a visit to Kabul earlier this month by a State Department delegation that ...

Daily Yomiuri On-Line - According to the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry, the retail price of rice in August dropped for 19 of 23 brands compared with the same month last year. The price drop is mostly due to a glut in supply expected this year. The crop ...

Seattle Times - As a result, our citizens enjoy a high quality of efficiency and operations. It makes agriculture more efficient. It helps us to manage public health. There is no sector in the economy that is not affected by this and does not benefit from this ...

Lompoc Record - The warm Indian summer days the first part of last week were just enough to push the sugar content in our chardonnay high enough for the winemakers to give us the green light to pick. Low-bed trucks became busy hauling mechanical harvesters, tractors ...

News.com.au - Taking this water out of production will wipe $28 billion off agriculture and associated industries, or 2.9 per cent off the economy," Mr Trewin said. He urged farmers to abstain from voting if the laws were upheld. "It's really important to get the ...

Forbes - This will help increase incomes from agriculture, where more than 40 percent of the Philippine labor force is employed, but which contributes only about 14 percent of national output,' Gautier said. Rice, the staple crop, and corn, used for animal ...

Meridian Star - A seventh generation Mississippian, Rickey L. Cole can relate to the small businessman, particularly farmers. “I was brought up and have lived all my life on a little 160-acre truck farm in southeast Jones County,” said Cole, who lives a few ...

AZCentral.com - Department of Agriculture monitors meat safety under a system that allows meat processors to design their own food safety plans. Many in the meat industry have strict guidelines and test meat for pathogens at various stages in the butchering process ...

MSN MoneyCentral - Syngenta is a world-leading agribusiness committed to sustainable agriculture through innovative research and technology. The company is a leader in crop protection, and ranks third in the high-value commercial seeds market. Sales in 2006 were ...

Salon - A November 2006 United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization report found that livestock accounts for 18 percent of global warming emissions worldwide, more than the entire transportation sector. Here in the U.S., livestock's impact is not quite ...