Two top scientists from the Agricultural Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture are in Islamabad this week to lead the annual review of the US-Pakistan Cotton Productivity Enhancement Programme, Pakistani newspapers have ...
Tags: Cotton, cotton industry
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has eased restrictions on Canadian poultry imports as the industry is recovering from the recent bird flu outbreak. Imports of poultry and poultry products from Ontario were banned in April after a ...
Tags: Poultry Imports, hatching eggs
Kraft Heinz Foods is recalling close to 2,068,467lb of turkey bacon products as they may have been adulterated and spoil before the “Best When Used By” date, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and ...
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Chile is planning to implement strict rules for tobacco, including plain packaging that depict the gory consequences of consuming such products. The government is proposing a bill that mandates tobacco firms to bring in changes in ...
Tags: Plain Packaging, Cigarettes
The August report of USDA informs that world cotton output in 2015/16 is forecast at 109.0 million bales, 2.5 million bales below last month's projection and 10 million bales below 2014/15. The US government agriculture department ...
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Pakistani Food Minister Sikandar Hayat Khan Bosan has said that scientists must pay attention to the scourge of the leaf curl virus disease that has been causing colossal loss of two to three million bales of cotton every year. His comments ...
Tags: cash crop, cotton, Cotton Virus
Next-generation packaging innovations will be the focus of a talk about Australian produce exports at the Queensland Supply Chain & Logistics Conference this week. Dr Andrew Macnish, a specialist in horticulture and forestry science at ...
Tags: packaging, packaging ideas
Givaudan Flavors is recalling close to 3,950 pounds of beef tallow products produced in Australia, as they were imported without the benefit of full inspection, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and ...
Tags: food security, beef, beef recall
Egg and turkey prices in the US will surge more than expected this year as a result of the severe bird flu outbreak in the country. Figures released by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) show that over 48 million chickens and turkeys ...
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The Maharashtra government has in-principle accepted a new ambitious and comprehensive textile policy that envisages setting up of textile hubs at an investment of Rs 80,000 crore in five years, according to media reports. BJP MLA ...
Continental has reached an important milestone in its research project for the industrialisation of dandelion rubber in tyre production. In the autumn of last year, Continental presented the first test tyres in a limited series made from ...
Russia has extended its food imports ban to Albania, Montenegro, Liechtenstein and Iceland in response to Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis. The country already banned food imports from the US, Canada, Norway, Australia and 28 ...
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Poland has reportedly put forward plans to invest in food processing technologies and farm machinery in the Indian state of Punjab. The move is expected to double the bilateral trade between the two countries to $5bn by 2018, Financial ...
The Chinese central government released a guideline to make agriculture more intensive and environmentally friendly on Friday, as they seek to ensure adequate and safe food supply. The guideline, issued by the State Council, or China's ...
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Researchers from China are collaborating with a crop eco-physiologist with the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Uvalde toward the goal of improving cotton production in south central Texas, AgrilLife said in a press ...
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