Few decades ago, African countries, including Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa, were listed in the list of world’s largest textile industries and currently the textile sector in the region is faced with several challenges. ...
Tags: Textile Sector, Textile
After a temporary weakening following the price reaction in New York caused by economic news last week, the quotations of the CIF Bremen Index stabilized again to the former sideway trend. At the domestic market most of the inquiries from ...
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Certification systems for verifying the sources of biobased raw materials and their content in finished products are already operating in the agriculture and food sectors in Europe. Now they are beginning to be introduced into the ...
Tags: Coatings, Construction, Chemicals
Eastern African countries including, Kenya and Tanzania, are focusing on cotton sector for the economic revival of the region and they have introduced several policies and incentives to improve cotton production in the region. Speaking to ...
Tags: Cotton, Economic Revival
ICE cotton prices dipped earlier this week on heavy rain received in Texas, the top cotton growing region of the country. Prices then rose in thin trade at the end of the week and settled the week in a positive note as the dry condition ...
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SCS Global Services (SCS), a provider of third-party auditing and certification of food quality and food safety claims, has expanded its food safety services for producers, food companies, and retailers. SCS new offerings - Harmonized ...
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United States agrochemicals firm Monsanto has terminated its plans to grow new types of genetically modified (GM) crops in the European Union over lack of prospects for cultivation in the region. The company said that it will drop all the ...
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Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Australian International Food Security Centre (AIFSC) have announced a 4-year, C$15m ($14.42m) research partnership to improve food security in Africa. The project, which ...
Tags: Food Security, Agriculture
Using LEDs as light sources in vegetable gardening is a new business opportunity in Japan, according to a recent Sankei Biz report. Large Japanese real estate developers, consumer electronics manufacturers, and architecture firms are ...
Tags: LED farm vegetable garden, LED, Lights, Lighting
China is on track to buy the largest quantities of wheat in nine years after storms this year have caused heavy damage to domestic crops, Financial Times reported, citing forecasts made by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Monday. ...
Tags: wheat buying, Agriculture
Weather Update June 24, 2013 Part of the reason for the delay in sending an update on the crop position is the diversity of the information we are able to obtain. The weather has been very mixed depending on where you are standing. A very ...
Tags: agriculture, lentils, pulses, grains
Recently, news came from State Forestry Bureau ICBR that 10 hectare bamboo forest in Anhui Huangshan Mountain and Zhejiang Yuyao are growing well with fresh bamboo, bulky pole and high yield after using Baosteel wrapped slow released ...
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Using biomass for energy is an important part of the renewable energy mix, says the European Environment Agency (EEA); however, bioenergy production should follow European Union resource efficiency principles. "Bioenergy is an important ...
Tags: Energy, bioenergy production, Bioenergy
The AutoCopter™ is a UAV helicopter providing remote sensing of crops using three full-sized cameras (multi-spectral, DSLR and HD Video) while flying a GPS plan for over two hours without the need to refill fuel. After landing, the ...
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The Tibetan Nationality is chiefly distributed in Xizang (Tibet) Autonomous Region, Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan and their nearby provinces. The Tibetan Nationality is one of the age-old nationalities of China, whose chief agricultural ...
Tags: Tibetan, clothing, adornment, Tibetan garments, headwear, natural gemstone