Agriculture, Organic
Organic farming is a production system that sustains agricultural productivity while avoiding or largely excluding synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. Whenever possible, externa...
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Ratchburi, Thailand (dpa) - When Anothai Kongwattana decided to
open a healthful vegetarian restaurant in Bangkok she ran into one
minor problem; she couldn't...
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Rome (dpa) - While organic agriculture can contribute to fighting
hunger, chemical fertilizers are needed to feed the world, the United
Nations Food and Agriculture Organiza...
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Richard de Wilde estimates he lost hundreds of thousands of dollars this week when a foot of rain inundated his organic beef and vegetable farm in southwestern Wisconsin."Out of our 100 acres of ve...
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Citrusdal, South Africa (dpa) - A quiet revolution is taking place
in the orchards of the Western Cape. After decades of trying to coax
fruit onto the trees with the aid of ...
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Prince Charles said Tuesday that urgent action is needed to fight climate change, likening the struggle to Britain's battle against Nazi Germany in World War II.The environmentalist prince told a b...
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Hortobagy/Debrecen, Hungary (dpa) - It was quiet in the steppe.
The covered wagon swayed gently on the plain. The air was clear, and
not a house nor a shrub was in sight.
...
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Consumer demand for organic products, particularly food, is
growing dramatically in Japan and other parts of Asia, according to
the Soil Association's global Organic Market Report 2007 launch...
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Warsaw (dpa) - Piping hot pierogis, rye bread and creamy garlic
butter, nutty cookies, traditional sekacz cakes, sour cherry and red
currant liqueurs, smoked garlic sausage ...
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PARIS, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Green politics in France, long the
domain of anarchic protests over genetically modified crops and
hamburgers, moves mainstream next week at a congress billed as
one of P...
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Japan urged the United States on Thursday to ease regulations on
mandarin oranges and other Japanese farm products under a plan to
boost Japanese farm exports 2.7-fold from 2006 to 1 trillion...
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Agriculture, Organic
FEATURE: Organic farming sprouts slowly in Thailand
