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Water-sparing rice farming proves viable in Kenya
2013-03-25 11:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: Faced with pressure on supplies of irrigation water due to climate shifts and an increasing population, rice farmers in four Kenyan irrigation schemes have adopted a new crop management system that allows them to grow their crops without flooding their paddies throughout the season. The Kenyan government, through the Mwea Irrigation Agricultural Development Centre (MIAD), has borrowed a technique from India known as the system of rice intensification. It has proved to be an effective way of growing...
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Maple season, farming celebrated at VVS
2013-03-25 00:16:54| Chemicals - Topix.net
The maple season is in full bloom in Central New York and VVS High School hosted a pancake breakfast and maple sap house tours on Sunday.
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Efficient Farming
2013-03-24 13:15:43| Agriculture - Topix.net
Every year, the river's annual flood replenished its valley and delta with silt and fertile soil that formed the basis of the agriculture industry.
GM Crops: Is European Farming at Risk?
2013-03-20 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
ANALYSIS - The debate over genetically modified (GM) crops in the European Union has been reignited with the launch of a new campaign hoping to halt the authorisation of 25 new GM crops in Europe, writes 5m editor, Gemma Hyland.
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Britain's farming crisis: 'People don't realise how tough everything is'
2013-03-16 21:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A few hours before I arrived at Kit Dean's dairy farm on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, near where North Yorkshire smudges into Cumbria, he took a call from his animal feed supplier. "I had to put them off again," he says. The bill, running into thousands of pounds, will have to remain unpaid. "They've put a stop on the account," says his wife, Jane, bluntly. "I don't know how we're going to afford to buy the feed we need through the winter." We are at the table in their handsome,...
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