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Nepali farmers abandon rice as monsoon shifts
2013-02-19 11:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: For most of his adult life, Bidur Basnet has planted paddy rice each monsoon season on his five hectares of mountain land. But in the last five years, as monsoon rains have grown increasingly unreliable, he has had to abandon the country's staple crop. Now he grows easier-to-water vegetables on half his land, leaving the other half fallow. "How can we prepare our paddy fields when we do not know which month in any year the monsoon rains will drench our fields?' grumbles Basnet, 43, who gave...
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Asipulo Farmers, Women Learn Organic Duck, Native Pig Raising
2013-02-19 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
PHILIPPINES - Personnel of the Provincial Veterinary Office (PVET) conducted lectures on organic duck raising and upgraded native pig production to farmers and members of women organizations of the remote community of Natkak in barangay Camandag recently.
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Farmer's Fight With Monsanto Reaches The Supreme Court
2013-02-18 13:39:07| Biotech - Topix.net
This week, the Supreme Court will take up a classic David-and-Goliath case . On one side, there's a 75-year-old farmer in Indiana named Vernon Hugh Bowman; on the other, the agribusiness giant Monsanto.
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Ohio Hog Farmers Sponsor "Bacon Love" Contest
2013-02-16 00:18:00| National Hog Farmer
The Ohio Hog Farmers have been sponsoring a "For the Love of Bacon" photo contest on Facebook. The photos are amazing (and so is bacon, so what were you expecting?). read more
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Tanzania: Warming seas frustrate Zanzibar's seaweed farmers
2013-02-15 01:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: Rising sea temperatures and more extreme weather are damaging Zanzibar's formerly thriving seaweed farms, maritime experts say, reducing harvests and putting farmers out of work. Commercially valuable seaweed was brought to Zanzibar from the Philippines in the 1980s, and early producers found it grew well in the shallow waters off this Indian Ocean island. Some types of seaweed, used in the food and pharmaceutical industries as a stabilizer or emulsifying agent, are in great demand abroad,...
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