Food Fight

Today, The Center For Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)released the conclusions of a study conducted since 1990 in which scientists kept a record of the number of outbreaks and the number of reported...

GMO Cotton May Be Future Source Of Protein

Cotton may be a source of protein for humans in the future, as genetic modification has produced plants free of toxins.Cotton is grown by more than 20 million farmers, and accounts for around 40% of the fiber used for making clothing, and its seeds are an excellent source of...

Flirting with the 5 crore people of Bundelkhand : Sanjay Pandey

During five year drought in Bundelkhand, nearly fifty percent of its total population had migrated to metro cities like Delhi & Mumbai. In search of their livelihoods they left  their  homes with bag and baggage . According to Sanjay Pandey ,national convener of...

Australia gets the hump, overrun by thousands of camels!

Gud day, its not the dingo's nor the roos that are causing mayhem down near the billy bongs, but damn ugly beasts that spit and chew on the cud. Its the same old problem of introducing a species, that just...

Inhofe Slams EPA Over Proposed Endangerment Finding

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said today that the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed endangerment finding will unleash a torrent of regulations that will destroy jobs, harm consumers, and extend the agency's...

Reporting on the next war to break in Africa?

"If the river goes down, there will be war"  Nyangatom warrior, Ethiopia. If you want to report on the next war in Africa, then go to the south east of  Ethiopia.  Make...

Death of "organic" farming?

More craziness from the Obama house of cards. Plan to outlaw family farms and alike in the US. Someones gonna make a lot of $ from it as per usual. "And how did they get this far with such a scheme to apply insane...

China's War Against Weather

"In Shandong Province, cannon troops of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) had fired more  than 300 rockets and 2,000 artillery shells in cloud-seeding operations by 5 p.m. Sunday. The operations brought an...

Greek farmers in clashes wih riot police

Violent clashes between farmers and riot police followed the Greek authorities to prevent 2000 protesters from Crete from leaving the port city of  Piraeus to demonstrate outside the parliament in Athens....

Gaza desperately short of food after Israel destroys farmland

It's no great surprise of course, but the scale of the destruction is emerging. Blockaded Gaza will need even more aid."Gaza desperately short of food after Israel destroys farmlandOfficials warn of 'destruction of all means of life' after the three-week conflict leaves...

Athens sees still more violent clashes

Yesterday protest marches were held in Athens in solidarity with those arrested by police during the series of clashes which spread across Greece in December following the shooting by police of a 15 year old...

India launches Agricultural Wikipedia

Scientists in India have launched an Agricultural Wikipedia, which will act as an online database of agricultural information in the country. It goes by the name of Agropedia. It provides crop and region...

Tractors cut Greece in two

Thousands of angry farmers have used tractors to blockade major road junctions across the Greece, effectively dividing up the country. Angry over prices and subsidies,  farmers have blocked road, rail and...

Farmers claim UK, Scandinavians, Jordan boycotting Israeli fruit

The boycott is already beginning to bite, it seems."Farmers claim UK, Jordan boycotting Israeli fruit Fruit growers disappointed by cancelled orders from abroad, leaving produce to rot in warehouses ...

Farmers: ‘Come home safe’ new campaign launched

Farmers are only 1.5% of the British workforce but make up between 15 and 20 per cent of all deaths at work. Now a new hard hitting campaign is being launched to encourage farmers to take safety more seriously....

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