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Climate Change And Food Security: Coffee Farmers In Tanzania
2015-05-18 20:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
International Business Times: Hundreds of farmers in Tanzania are abandoning crops of coffee and cotton due to changes in the local climate. Instead, theyre planting more lucrative vegetables and flowers as temperatures rise and rainfall becomes less predictable. Coffee beans are no longer as profitable, as my harvests keep on falling, Ludovick Meela, a farmer from Tanzanias northern Kilimanjaro region, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news organization. I need fast-growing crops...
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Ohio farmers face new manure handling practices
2015-05-12 22:37:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: Ohio State University Extension As of June 21, Ohio farmers in the western Lake Erie Basin will have new restrictions on handling manure in an attempt to protect Lake Erie and Ohios water quality. read more
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Why California Farmers Are Conflicted About Using Less Water
2015-05-11 22:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The drought across much of the Western U.S. is now in its fourth year. In California - where it's the most intense - farms are not under the same strict orders to conserve as cities are. And inside the agriculture industry, farmers are quietly debating how best to respond to the drought. Given uncertainty around pending state regulations, some say there may be an incentive to not invest in water-saving technologies right now. In the world of water conservation, there are a few no-brainer solutions....
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Millions of farmers keep faith in sugar cane, shrug off poor returns
2015-05-11 09:42:59| Sugar Industry News
AHMEDNAGAR, India (Reuters) - It is a Catch-22 for Nandkumar Patil, one of the millions of sugar cane farmers in India.
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Rice farmers scrap seedlings to sow directly in cost-cutting push
2015-05-10 14:47:20| Steel - Topix.net
A number of rice farmers have started sowing seed rice directly into paddy fields, breaking with the conventional method of growing seedlings and then transplanting them. Yamaha Motor Co.
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