Tag: food production

• Friday, June 28th 2024 - 18:29 UTC

  Food industry is Brazil's main source of jobs, IBGE finds

  

  The foodstuff industry accounted for the largest number of jobs (22.8%) in South America's largest country, according to a study released Thursday by Brazil's Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The clothing and accessories industry represented 7% of workplaces, and the manufacture of metal products (machinery and equipment not included), 5.9%.

• Tuesday, September 15th 2020 - 08:15 UTC

  US/UK scientists create gene edited cattle with “surrogate sires” conditions

  

  Scientists have created gene-edited pigs, goats, and cattle to produce sperm with traits such as disease resistance and higher meat quality in what they say is a step towards genetically enhancing livestock to improve food production.

• Wednesday, May 6th 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  US largest pork abattoir resumes limited production

  

  Tyson Foods Inc will resume limited production at its largest U.S. pork plant this week, the company said late on Tuesday. Tyson Fresh Meats, the beef and pork subsidiary of Tyson Foods, had indefinitely suspended operations at the Waterloo, Iowa plant on April 22 to contain the rapid spread of the coronavirus.

• Thursday, June 13th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  Wheat and barley production forecasted to increase; rains in US threaten maize crop

  

  FAO's latest forecast for world cereal production in 2019 - available in the Cereal Supply and Demand Brief- points to an increase of 1.2 percent from the previous year to reach 2 685 million tons, a sharp downward revision from the forecast made in May when global cereal production was predicted to expand by 2.7 percent.

• Monday, June 4th 2012 - 03:22 UTC

  Latin America holds 42% of the world’s agriculture expansion potential

  

  Latin America is one of the few regions of the world where agriculture production can expand since it holds 42% of that potential globally, said Victor M. Villalobos Director General of the Inter American Institute for the Cooperation on Agriculture, IICA.

• Thursday, September 2nd 2010 - 21:08 UTC

  Argentina calls on Mercosur to become world’s main agro-food business region

  

  Argentine president Cristina Kirchner called on Mercosur partners to convert the group into the world’s leading agro-food business region and to put an end to asymmetries.