Tag: crops

• Tuesday, June 21st 2011 - 02:38 UTC

  Brazil targets 5% increase for next crop and loans 67bn USD to farmers at zero rate

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff announced an agriculture support plan of approximately 67 billion US dollars with the purpose of increasing by 5% the 2011/2012 harvest of grains and oil-seeds

• Thursday, June 9th 2011 - 22:48 UTC

  Brazil crop of grains and oilseeds expected to reach a record 161.5 million tons

  

  Brazil’s 2010/2011 crop of grains and oilseeds is estimated to reach 161.5 million tons, up 8.2% (8.2 million tons) over the previous farm year (149.2 million tons), according to the latest survey from the National Supplies Corporation, Conab.

• Wednesday, June 8th 2011 - 23:03 UTC

  Rocketing values for cattle in Brazil anticipate ‘beef prices will remain high’

  

  World beef prices look set to stay high long term given the rocketing prices of raising cattle in Brazil, and the lack of an obvious successor as the world's low-cost producer.

• Friday, March 11th 2011 - 00:53 UTC

  Decline of bees’ colonies threatens pollination, essential for growing more crops

  

  More than a dozen factors, ranging from declines in flowering plants and the use of memory-damaging insecticides to the world-wide spread of pests and air pollution, may be behind the emerging decline of bee colonies across many parts of the globe.