In the next 3 years, Walmart plans to spend 100 million yuan to improve food security management further. According to news from Wal-Mart China, Walmart food securit inspection vans have appeared in China on 9, May. Each van costs about 2 ...
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The East African country of Tanzania plans to start growing Bt cotton by 2020 once the Government aided research comes up with a solution to the existing red bollworm problem, Charles Kitwanga, Deputy Minister in the Vice President’s ...
Milk is a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals before they are able to digest other types of food. Early-lactation milk contains colostrum, which carries the ...
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Tesco is “misleading” consumers over its scrapping of a pledge to only rear poultry on soya feed that’s free of genetic modification (GM), say campaigners. Tesco’s Tim Smith said it was important to be upfront ...
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Australia's $9 billion polymers industry will be boosted by a national cooperative research initiative. The launch featured a novel degradable plastic film that Greening Australia and the Birchip Cropping Group have shown can dramatically ...
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The African Development Bank Group this week announced the launch of what it calls an open data platform in 20 African countries. The move comes as part of the group’s Africa Information Highway initiative, which is aimed at ...
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Food production in South Sudan has increased by more than 35% between 2011 and 2012, according to report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP). The increase can be attributed to factors such as ...
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The boss of the world’s biggest food company Nestlé, Paul Bulcke has blamed the horsemeat scandal on a criminal minority, who threatened to undermine trust between consumers and the food industry. Nestlé boss Paul ...
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Donaldytong / Wikipedia photo. Victorian Agriculture and Food Security Minister Peter Walsh has officially opened Murray Goulburn Cooperative’s new office in Dubai, which confirms the company’s plans to significantly expand ...
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The next 5-10 years will present a significant challenge for global business, with a new event promising to help business leaders navigate the ‘biggest period of global change since the industrial revolution’. The inaugural ...
Radio Lifeline, a non-profit based in the US, has launched the Black Earth Project, a new initiative designed to help Kenyan farmers mitigate the growing impact of climate change. For this project, Radio Lifeline has partnered with ...
Honey laundering trails all lead to China Drones begin descent on US agriculture Forensic marker dogs on trail of metal thieves Honey bees are a massive global business, responsible for a third of the world’s food production. Honey ...
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The 3rd North American edition of the Sustainable Foods Summit was hosted in San Francisco on Jan 22-23rd. Improve efficiencies in food supply chains was the resounding message from the summit, which brought together over 160 senior ...
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The UK government is to meet industry officials to determine whether the supply chain needs to be placed under greater scrutiny to ensure food security in the country. A spokesperson for the Department of Environment, Food and Rural ...
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The UK's biggest solar energy farm is to be built on farmland in New Romney and will occupy a 114-acre site on agricultural land at Sycamore Farm in Millbank Lane. Ranks of photovoltaic cells – technically known as an array - will ...
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