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DOC helps farmers protect lizards 5 Aug 2009 | 06:01 pm
SPOTTED SKINK: Oligosoma lineoocellatum, 111 mm in length from snout to vent (minus tail). It is much bigger than the common skink, which is 73mm. Tim Hewitt says he first saw them in the 1960s in the...
Annual seminar to discuss the role of media in agriculture and development 5 Aug 2009 | 06:00 pm
Specialized Reporting Region: Worldwide An international seminar on the 'role of the media in agricultural development in ACP countries' (West, Central, East and Southern Africa, the Caribbean and the...
Vigilance probe in alleged substandard maize seed case 5 Aug 2009 | 05:38 pm
Nahan, Aug 5 : Deputy Commissioner Sirmour Padam Singh Chauhan has said that a vigilance inquiry would be ordered against the supply of substandard maize high breed 9451 seed to agriculture department...
Corn Power: Sen. Grassley Snuffs Out Dissent on Ethanol Subsidies. 5 Aug 2009 | 05:35 pm
PRESIDENT Obama's nominee as ambassador to Brazil, Thomas A. Shannon Jr., is a longtime diplomat trained to speak honestly without giving unnecessary offense. So when Sen. James Webb (D-Va.) asked Mr....
Effie’s gets a crunch from corn 5 Aug 2009 | 05:31 pm
The Effies Homemade ladies have done it again. Owners Joan MacIsaac and Irene Costello, who launched their Hyde Park-based company in 2007, first made oatcakes, now theyve come out with corncakes ($5....
Commercial banks have responsibility to nurture agriculture sector - Melu 5 Aug 2009 | 05:29 pm
STANDARD Chartered Bank managing director Mizinga Melu has said commercial banks have the responsibility to nurture Zambia's agriculture sector as a tool for economic growth. Speaking at the just-ende...
Subsistence Farming Helps Pacific Cope 5 Aug 2009 | 05:27 pm
PACIFIC ISLANDS REPORT Pacific Islands Development Program/East-West Center With Support From Center for Pacific Islands Studies/University of Hawai?i Family crops see islands through global crisis ME...
Burgess steps down as head of Australian Dairy Farmers 5 Aug 2009 | 05:27 pm
Allan Burgess has stepped down from his role as head of Australian Dairy Farmers after six years of service. Queensland Dairy Farmers Organisation president and dairyfarmer Wes Judd has stepped into t...
Master Farmer Gathering Turns Into a Reunion 5 Aug 2009 | 05:25 pm
Donya Lester never has to speak twice to bring a crowd to order. But she does at the annual Master Farmer gathering. The feisty director of the Purdue Ag Alumni Association is always in control, but e...
Mutant Corn Can Call for Help When Attacked 5 Aug 2009 | 05:23 pm
for National Geographic News Gotham City has the Bat-signal; the 'I've fallen and I can't get up' lady has her Life Call pendant; and now, mutant corn has a chemical to call for a hero when villainous...
