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Agriculture Key To Stabilizing Afghanistan

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Rebuilding agriculture can boost confidence in Afghanistan’s fragile government and pull farmers away from the drug money that fuels the Taliban insurgency, the U. S. agriculture chief said Jan. 10. The Obama administration sees agriculture as the biggest non-security priority in Afghanistan, said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, as he arrived in Kabul for a three-day
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Jordan Trade Pact On Table, Colombia On Deck

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Legislation to approve a free trade deal with Jordan was presented to the Commons by Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz Nov. 17, with hopes it will get smoother passage than a bill authorizing a trade deal with Colombia. Two-way merchandise trade between Canada and Jordan totalled $92 million in 2008. The deal would eliminate 90 per
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Canada, Kuwait Sign Economic Pact

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Opportunity is expected to knock for Canadian agrifood exporters through a new agreement on economic co-operation between Canada and Kuwait. International Trade Minister Stockwell Day and Kuwait’s Commerce and Industry Minister Ahmad Rashed Al-Haroun signed the agreement Nov. 4 in Ottawa. “Kuwait offers many opportunities for Canadian companies in the oil and gas sector, engineering
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Saudis Invest In Indonesian Agriculture

Saudi investors launched agricultural projects in Indonesia worth $1.3 billion last year, a top business official said March 23, as the world’s top oil exporter seeks to secure food supplies from abroad. Mohamed Abdulkader al-Fadel, who chairs Saudi Arabia’s Commerce and Industry Chambers Council, made the remarks during a meeting with Indonesia’s ambassador, state news
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Selfish Use Of Rivers Threatens Political Stability

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Countries that selfishly use shared rivers threaten political stability at a time when water is scarce and demand is growing, a conservation group has warned. Disputes over shared rivers such as the Tigris and the Euphrates could be resolved if nations put borders aside and viewed the entire river basin as a unit instead, they
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Rising Sea Salinates India’s Ganges

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Rising sea levels are causing saltwater to flow into India’s biggest river, threatening its ecosystem and turning vast farmlands barren in the country’s east, a climate change expert has warned. A study by an east Indian university in the city of Kolkata revealed surprising growth of mangroves on the Ganges River, said Pranabes Sanyal, the
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Malaysia may scrap palm oil windfall tax

Malaysia may scrap a windfall tax on palm oil if the price rises further, the country’s Commodities Minister Peter Chin was quoted as saying Jan. 19 by state news agency Bernama. The Malaysian government in June imposed a windfall tax on crude palm oil sales of above 2,000 ringgit (US$559.3) per tonne, following a surge
Cereals, Crops, News

Saudi Arabia to increase wheat stocks

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Saudi Arabia expects to import up to 800,000 tonnes of milling wheat in the year to September 2009 as it seeks to build up stocks while scaling back domestic wheat farming, a grains authority official told Reuters. Saudi Arabia’s state-controlled Grain Silos and Flour Mills Organization (GSFMO) plans to issue a tender in April or
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Seed shortage hits Afghan wheat farmers

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“…we’re promoting the use of certified seed, which means we’re only promoting about 12,000 tonnes, which is all there is available in the country.” – LOREN STODDARD, USAID Thousands of tonnes of wheat seed are being distributed across Afghanistan, but this will meet only a quarter of demand so Afghans will rely heavily on imports
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Cyclone damage affects productivity

Tens of thousands of farmers in the cyclone-hit Irrawaddy delta face the prospect of a thin rice harvest this monsoon season and uncertainty over whether they will be able to plant the vital summer crop. “We cultivated the fields quite late this year and we did not have enough livestock to help us either,” said

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