As second largest soy bean producer, Brazil is beginning step in the right direction regarding environmental policies. The new environmental minister has extended the agreement to ban purchases from soy produces with...
Thousands of Argentine farmers have made a deal to suspend the export of grain and meat, in an ongoing dispute with the government over taxes."The farmers said they would not take their goods to market between 28 May...
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After 16 days, Argentina's farmers have ended their strike against export tax hikes and have opened up the floor for dialogue."The country's four big farming organizations-enterprises, Argentine Rural Society (SRA), Coninagro, Argentine Rural Confederations (CRA) and...
"Indonesian consumers are `crying` over the sky-rocketing of principal commodity prices at home amid warnings by observers that a world economic recession this year will affect many parts of the world, including Indonesia.
The prices of basic commodities such as rice, wheat...
"People in Indonesia today can hardly find fermented soybean cake, locally known as tempe, in the markets as the price of soybean, the main ingredient in the traditional food, has increased to an unprecedented level.Tempe is a food popular mainly among the common or...
"Tempe (fermented soybean cake) has always been considered a typical dish for the common people or those in the lower income brackets in Indonesia.
Many `warteg` (short for `Warung Tegal` or food stall) sell tempe...
"Baran Wirawan, a food crop expert who held talks with soybean importers, said the government had not decided on the exact price, but it could be between 5,500-6,000 rupiah a kilogram."The government may impose a price reference for soybean in the domestic market....
"Indonesia plans to boost domestic soybean output to 900,000 tonnes this year to reduce dependence on imports as soaring prices have hurt the local food industry, Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono said on Tuesday."We will distribute good-quality soybean seedlings for...
"Soybean and corn output in Brazil will rise to records next season as U.S. ethanol production pushes up prices for the commodities, a private forecaster said.
Soybean growers in Brazil, the largest producer after...
"There's a slow poison out there that's severely damaging our children and threatening to tear apart our culture. The ironic part is, it's a "health food," one of our most popular.
Now, I'm a health-food guy, a fanatic who seldom allows anything into his kitchen unless it's...
The mainstream media censored the vast majority of the evidence of fraud, so that most Americans to this day, have never heard a fraction of what was amiss.