Agriculture

• Wednesday, May 5th 2010 - 05:58 UTC

  Chile Moves to Regulate and Permit Cultivation of GM Crops

  

  Chilean Agriculture Ministry José Antonio Galilea announced this week plans to introduce legislation to regulate and permit the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops in Chile.

• Monday, May 3rd 2010 - 01:51 UTC

  FAO Urges Heightened International Surveillance Against Foot and Mouth Disease

  

  FAO urged heightened international surveillance against foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) following three recent incursions in Japan and South Korea.

• Saturday, May 1st 2010 - 03:50 UTC

  Lab Production of Green Hamburgers is “No Longer Science Fiction”

  

  The lab production of meat without the need of slaughtering animals is no longer science fiction and could be producing “green” hamburgers in less than ten years according to the list of Time Magazine fifty main inventions of the year.

• Thursday, April 29th 2010 - 07:28 UTC

  Outbreaks of Foot-and-Mouth Disease in Japan Includes Cows and Pigs

  

  Japan has discovered suspected cases of foot-and-mouth disease in pigs at a farm in Miyazaki prefecture, where the government confirmed the first outbreak since 2000 in cows last week.

• Thursday, April 29th 2010 - 07:18 UTC

  Farm Exports Leading Latam Strong Recovery, Says FAO

  

  Latinamerica and the Caribbean are undergoing a strong recovery boosted mainly by agriculture exports, said José Graziano da Silva, head of FAO’s regional office in Panama, during the presentation of the Report on Agriculture and Rural Development 2010 Prospects for Latinamerica.

• Thursday, April 29th 2010 - 06:41 UTC

  Sugar Prices Fall on Prospects of Abundant Crops in Brazil and India

  

  Sugar fell in New York and London, reversing earlier advances, as an improved outlook for production in Brazil and normal rainfall in India outweighed concern that supplies will fall short.

• Monday, April 26th 2010 - 21:24 UTC

  Uruguay 2010 Soy-Bean Boom Crop Could be Just a One Year Record

  

  Uruguay is currently harvesting what is considered a record crop of soybean the ever expanding oil seed that as in neighbouring countries is taking over land from other exploitations and has made Mercosur the world’s leading producer and exporter.

• Tuesday, April 20th 2010 - 15:55 UTC

  Farming nations meet in Uruguay in anticipation of G-20 summit

  

  The world's large economies could make progress to revive stalled world trade talks at two G20 summits later this year, officials from farming nations said on Monday at a two-day meeting in Uruguay.

• Wednesday, April 14th 2010 - 03:09 UTC

  Cuba calls for an efficient agriculture to cut annual 1.5 billion USD food imports

  

  Cuba continues to spend more than 1.5 billion US dollars a year on food imports, Vice President Jose Ramon Machado said while urging farmers to boost production, Communist Party daily Granma reported Monday.

• Wednesday, April 14th 2010 - 03:07 UTC

  US botanist expert in ethanol production elected to Argentina’s Sciences Academy

  

  Elizabeth Kellogg from the E. Desmond Lee Endowed Professor of Botanical Studies at the University of Missouri–St. Louis has been elected to The National Academy of Sciences of Argentina.