Sweet Green Fields, a US-based stevia extracts producer, announced plans to expand its stevia crop in the South-eastern US based on the performance of the crop during the 2012 growing season. Sweet Green Fields has teamed up with grower ...
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Coherent Graphics Ltd today is pleased to introduce Proview 1.5, their updated full-featured PDF Editor for Mac OS X. Sporting a simple, clean interface, Proview features a wide range of tools to edit existing PDF documents, as well as ...
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Scientists have developed a new process to produce a nutritious form of puffed rice that has more proteins and other nutrients compared to commercial puffed rice. Commercial puffed rice is produced through steam extrusion, where an ...
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Environmentally friendly, or green office supplies are appearing more and more often, so I thought I would take a look at the Paper Mate Biodegradable Pen that I picked up from OfficeMax and which is also available in more varieties here ...
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US-based AquaLiv Technologies has entered into an agreement to acquire Verity Farms, a company aiming to lower chemical dependency and genetic modification in food production. AquaLiv Technologies, through its subsidiary AquaLiv, offers ...
Volatility in global commodity markets remained a significant factor for the food industry during 2012. On the one hand, adverse weather conditions hit grain harvests causing prices to spike, while on the other, over-supply has meant cocoa ...
The domestic cotton production data released by the Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association(PCGA)shows that the country has reaped less cotton by now this season,as compared to last year. As per the statistics,ginners received around ...
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The ability to spin a good yarn recently kept an international team of researchers focused on Gossypium raimondii,the simplest cotton genome.The researchers,including Jeremy Schmutz,faculty investigator at HudsonAlpha and head of the plant ...
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Grasim Industries Limited, an Aditya Birla Group company, announced its results for the second quarter ended 30th September 2012. Revenue for the quarter grew by 15 per cent from Rs.5,755 crore to Rs.6,602 crore. PBIDT for the quarter was ...
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Intrusion prevention systems -- security tools designed to stop problems even before they crop up -- have emerged as indispensable components of defense-in-depth security strategies. But a key success factor for the technology is it ...
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Apple today issued invitations to an Oct. 23 event in San Jose, Calif. where it's expected to unveil a smaller tablet, tagged as the "iPad Mini" by most. The invitation is typical Apple-esque, with a colorful graphic and a single line of ...
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After a solid first half, BASF maintained good business performance overall in the third quarter. Sales rose by 8% to €19 billion, particularly due to higher volumes. At just under €2.1 billion, income from operations (EBIT) ...
Plexus Cotton Limited reported that New York (NY) futures rebounded this week, as March gained 190 points to close at 72.24 cents. With crops in the Northern Hemisphere coming off the field at a rapid pace and with the USDA issuing yet ...
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Just like the one adopted for cotton imports, the Centre should also have “open policy” for cotton exports, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said adding that this could benefit the cotton growers and the textile ...
A two-fold rise in Uganda’s cotton production during last fiscal indicates that the cotton sector of the country is on the path of revival. Cotton production grew from 147,000 bales in 2010-11 to 254,036 bales during last ...
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