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By Stuart Grudgings BOA FRENTE, Brazil (Reuters) - Strangers have been fishing in his village's lake and Quadro is on a two-hour ride to recruit help from the nearest police post in Brazil's vast Amazon forest. His tiny...
EUREKALERT Contact: Debra Levey Larson dlarson@illinois.edu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign URBANA - When asked to compare apples to apples, consumers said they would pay more for locally grown apples than...
In the Republican primary for Florida agriculture commissioner, U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam of Bartow seems like a natural.But state Sen. Carey Baker of Eustis intends to put up a fight against Putnam in the primary. Claiming the...
You'll find them on peppers, apples, melons and bananas. Those little produce stickers can be a nuisance, but they can provide valuable information if you know how to crack the code. They are called PLU, or price look-up...
Turners and Growers executives running a campaign to break down the single-desk platform for kiwifruit exports appear to have ambushed the growers' marketer at the World Trade Organisation. WTO tal...
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OPINION: The world is in love with New Zealand. People want to holiday here, live here, consume our primary produce and wine, and even watch our movies. We're seen as a peaceful backwater in a harsh w...
Sales quadruple in one year after frost-free spring and almost perfect growing conditions Sales of blueberries have quadrupled in the UK this year, buoyed by perfect growing conditions for British farmers. The 305% increase...
Mountain ash are festooned with berries in autumn, and many grow well in small gardens Sorbus cashmiriana (from Kashmir) has white berries on long pink stalks and green pinnate leaves. Photo: GETTY IMAGES Sorbus cashmiriana...
To meet the requirements of the foreign and domestic consumers Area under cashew has expanded to 8.68 lakh hectares with nut production of 6.65 lakh tonnes Stress on need for screening germ plasm to develop hybrids Coimbatore:...
