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Effort Underway To Save Endangered Seeds

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Farmers and plant breeders around the globe are planting thousands of endangered seeds as part of a bid to save 100,000 varieties of food crops from extinction. In many cases, only a handful of seeds remain from rare varieties of barley, rice and wheat whose history can be traced back to the Neolithic era, said
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New Biofuels Seen Coming From Many Sources

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New-generation biofuels will come from a wide range of sources and no single feedstock may dominate, a conference on second-generation biofuels organized by German commodity analysts F. O. Licht heard Feb. 13. Non-food plants and crops mentioned at the conference as possibilities for use in future biofuels range from corn husks, grasses and algae to
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U. K. funds non-food biofuels

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The British government and 15 businesses including Royal Dutch Shell and SABMiller have directed 27 million pounds (US$38.10 million) for research on new biofuels that do not use up food. It is Britain’s biggest ever public investment in bioenergy. The money will fund research at six centres around Britain with the goal of replacing petrol
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Financial crisis seen slowing EU biofuels growth

The sharp drop in crude oil prices and the global financial crisis is set to disrupt the development of biofuels in the European Union, a top European Commission official said Jan. 6. “The path will be a bit chaotic. I don’t see a taking off in biofuels in 2009, 2010 but probably later because we
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Japan to back third farm waste ethanol project

Japan has approved a third test project to make ethanol from farm waste with subsidies to pay for building and running of plants totalling about US$32 million over five years, the Agriculture Ministry said Nov. 18. Several countries including resource-poor Japan are working on enzymes and other processing technologies to unlock more energy from the
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Radio helps African farmer boost yields

In Nanga Eboko, a city in the Central Province of Cameroun, people face many difficulties, made worse because the city is isolated. Not a single piece of road over 170 km between the agricultural city and the political capital, Yaoundé. This forces the farmers to either sell their products to local dealers, or to the
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Improving the staff of life

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At first glance, the press release issued by the Canadian Wheat Board earlier this month is a classic “dog bites man” story. The board announced the vast majority of Prairie wheat farmers (88 per cent to be exact) grow varieties that are used primarily to produce bread and pasta. What’s more, this is not a
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New bacteria could make cheaper ethanol

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Genetically engineered bacteria could make cellulosic ethanol cheaper to manufacture, researchers reported Sept. 8, in a finding that may unlock more energy from the waste products of farming and forestry. Ethanol from cellulose, the kind of sugar in the likes of cornstalks and sawdust, is being promoted as an environmentally friendly alternative to fossil fuels,
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Argentine beekeepers no longer in clover

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“…any crop that is planted uniformly across large areas with the use of herbicides deprives bees of the flowers they need.” – Alicia Basilio, School of Agronomy, University of Buenos Aires Beekeepers had it easy when cattle roamed freely across the flower-filled meadows of Argentina’s Pampas plains. But a boom in soy farming has changed

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