According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Ecuador dominated the world's banana exports this year with it's 30% share of exports. Philippines, Guatemala, costa rica and Colombia respectively by 16.04%, 12.30%, 11.64% and ...
Global beverage giant The Coca-Cola Company has made a deal with South African multinational brewing and beverage company SABMiller to acquire its Appletiser drinks brands on a worldwide basis, and acquire or be licensed rights to a further ...
Tags: Coca-Cola, Sabmiller, Agriculture
The central South American country of Paraguay has signed an international cooperation agreement with Brazil and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), with the aim of combating the pest weevil that has been damaging ...
Tags: Cotton, cotton fields, cotton production
Hazard analysis and critical control points or HACCP is a systematic preventive approach to food safety from biological, chemical, and physical hazards in production processes that can cause the finished product to be unsafe, and designs ...
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Good agricultural practice (GAP) are specific methods which, when applied to agriculture, create food for consumers or further processing that is safe and wholesome. While there are numerous competing definitions of what methods constitute ...
Macy's, Inc. announced that Jeffrey Gennette, who has served for the past five years as Macy's chief merchandising officer, has been elected president of the corporation, effective immediately. He will report to Terry J. Lundgren, Macy's, ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
Chinese health officials say H7N9 bird flu has killed 19 people in the country so far this year with the number of human infections up to 96. Even as health officials in the affected regions have gone on higher alert to fight the spread ...
Tags: H7N9 Bird Flu, health, alert
China, facing rising human cases of the H7N9 avian flu, asked its municipalities and provinces to be on higher alert to control the disease. The National Health and Family Planning Commission, which summoned a meeting of health officials ...
The ban on U.S. pork and beef exports to Russia over ractopamine is costly for American producers, but not as much as was recently reported by the U.S. Ambassador. U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul told a Moscow business newspaper ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
The Ministry of Agriculture of Paraguay (MAG) has announced plans to review the Government’s plan for cotton in the country, and add new dynamics to implement the cotton campaign successfully. According to a statement issued ...
World food prices rose in October after falling in each of the previous five months, pushed by higher sugar prices, the United Nations Food and Agriculture organization said, also predicting that prices would remain stable going forward, ...
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In response to the recent Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Food Wastage Footprint Summary Report and call for action, the PAC board of directors announced the launch of the PAC Food Waste initiative. FAO ...
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Capital Meat Processing Company Nigeria Limited has inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) and lease agreement with the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), for an ultra-modern abattoir at Tungan Maje in Gwagwalada Area ...
Tags: Capital Meat, Food
According to the latest figures appearing in the provisional UNECE/FAO Forest Products Annual Market Review 2012-2013, apparent raw-timber consumption in 2012 within the UNECE region, which covers Europe, North America and Eastern Europe, ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Xylem has expanded its range of Wedeco ultraviolet (UV) disinfection solutions specifically designed for the tank-based aquaculture industry. Xylem?s new, closed-vessel Wedeco BX and Quadron series UV systems are designed for inactivating ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Saltwater Resistant, Ultraviolet