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China Land Grab Disputes Hit New High

HONG KONG / REUTERS / Rural land grab disputes are hitting new highs in China and spreading to the undeveloped west of the country, according to a country-wide survey published in a state-run magazine. Rising discontent over forced demolitions and corruption has increased anxieties among officials determined to defend one-party rule and make the transition
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Reformist Japan Farmers Urge Free Trade To Spur Change

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Like other farmers on this fertile, coastal plain in northeast Japan, where patchwork rice fields stretch to the mountains beyond, Kazushi Saito knows first hand that the nation s shrinking agricultural sector is in dire straits. But unlike many, the 54-year-old rice farmer backs a controversial free trade deal that could remove a near 800
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U.S. Needs Closer Watch On Afghan Farm Aid

The American Embassy in Kabul needs to do a better job of tracking aid to Afghanistan s Agriculture Ministry, which totalled $77 million last year, says a U.S. watchdog. The embassy should do more to evaluate whether the U.S. aid is properly used and whether the strategy to invest in the Agriculture Ministry is working,
Cereals, Crops, News

Saudi Arabia Increases Storage Capacity

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Saudi Arabia expects to import 1.9 million tonnes of wheat in 2011, the director general of the state-run Grain Silos and Flour Mills Organization (GSFMO) said Oct. 19. Around 1.9 million tonnes this year and slightly more next year, Waleed el-Khereiji told reporters on the sidelines of a Russian grain conference in Egypt. The increase
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North Koreans Suffering Chronic Malnutrition

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In a pediatric hospital in North Korea s most productive farming province, children lay two to a bed. All showed signs of severe malnutrition: skin infections, patchy hair, listless apathy. Their mothers have to bring them here on bicycles, said duty doctor Jang Kum Son in the Yellow Sea port city of Haeju. We used
Cereals, Grain Markets

Saudi Arabia A Big Buyer Of Barley In 2011

ABU DHABI/REUTERS Saudi Arabia is set to import seven million to 7.5 million tonnes of barley this year and is looking at long term deals with major grain exporter Ukraine, the finance minister of the world s biggest barley buyer said on Sept. 7. We import around seven to 7.5 million tonnes of barley as
Cereals, Crops

Dry Iraq Tries New Drought Resistant Grains

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Iraq this year plans to start sowing a new generation of grain seeds it hopes will be more resistant to drought and soil salinity and could help bolster its wheat crop in a couple of years, an agriculture official said. The Iraqi government’s meteorological department last week said it expected three years of drought, and
Hogs, Livestock

China To Stabilize Pork Prices

China will do more to boost pork supply and stabilize prices as part of efforts to check inflation, the state council said July 28. Pork prices fell last week, for the first time since April, data from the Commerce Ministry showed. The price of pork, a staple food, is particularly sensitive in China since it
Beef cattle, Livestock

Canadian Beef Expected To Re-Enter South Korea Soon

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The head of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association hopes Canadian beef exports to South Korea will resume later this year, following an agreement between the two countries to resume trade after an eight-year hiatus. Travis Toews called the agreement significant because South Korea was once Canada’s fourth-largest beef customer until 2003, when the discovery of BSE
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India’s Job Program Creates Farm Labour Shortage

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Sitting at the edge of fields in the heart of India’s grain bowl, Gurdayal Singh Malik shakes his head in resignation about the lack of workers needed for his 60-acre farm, blaming the government’s flagship welfare program for the shortage. Ever since the start of the program, which guarantees 100 days of work a year

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