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Chinese Pig Farmers Help Struggling Dairy Sector
2015-01-16 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CHINA - In the rural areas of north China's Hebei Province, local farmers have started feeding pigs fresh cow's milk in order to try and support local dairy farmers, whose milk prices have slumped.
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Brazilian Farmers Should Expect Good Year
2015-01-16 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
BRAZIL – Brazilian economists have offered a positive forecast for Brazil’s pig and poultry producers on supply and demand outlooks.
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Polish farmers blockaded Chevron frackers for 400 days and stopped drilling in their region
2015-01-15 19:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inhabitat: In July, Chevron abandoned its plans to drill for gas in Zurawlow, Poland, after farmers and families from Zurawlow (and four nearby villages) blockaded a proposed shale drilling site with tractors and other pastoral machinery for 400 days. Now, that victory is inspiring other Poles to fight back against the fracked gas industry. According to a soon-to-be-outdated Polish Geological Institute study in March 2012, estimated recoverable shale gas beneath the country`s surface is estimated to be between...
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Farmers Signing With ASR/BSI
2015-01-15 07:30:56| Sugar Industry News
BSI has started signing contracts with cane associations and growers groups. This evening, the company sent out a public notice saying farmers representing production of more than 400,000 tons of cane have made petitions to the Sugar Industry Control Board to enter into independent agreements with BSI. And, today announcement says, quote, the process for signing agreements between BSI and these groups of farmers has now commenced. End quote. So the process which started in mid November 2014, when BSI appealed directly to farmers, is now coming to fruition two torturous months later: many, not all, farmers are signing directly with BSI.
Maharashtra government steps in to mollify cane farmers
2015-01-15 07:30:56| Sugar Industry News
Stepping in to seek central aid for the ever beleaguered co-operative sugar industry, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and union minister of state for food and civil supplies Raosaheb Danve Patil will meet union finance minister Arun Jaitley.
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