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Date:2014/09/26
The Shanxi government has earmarked a special subsidy of 49.33 million yuan ($8.04 million) for film projections in rural areas, including boarding school students at primary and secondary schools, according to the provincial finance department. The ...
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Date:2014/09/25
Soil scientist Paul Vlek of Bonn University was awarded the 2014 World Agriculture Prize on Saturday in ceremonies in Nanjing, Jiangsu province.
The prize is given jointly by the Global Confederation of Higher Education Associations for the Ag...
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Date:2014/09/25
Hans Friederich (center), director general of the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan, appreciates a traditional Chinese painting made of bamboo in Yibin, Sichuan province, earlier this month. The producer of the painting has benefited from t...
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Date:2014/09/25
A farmer collects potatoes in the field in the Saibei Administration Area in Zhangjiakou City, north China's Hebei Province, Sept. 22, 2014. The Sabei area, which has about 50,000 mu (about 3,333 hectares) of potato field, is expected to yield more t...
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Date:2014/09/25
LONDON, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- Leading international farm animal welfare charity Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) Wednesday afternoon delivered the first pig welfare awards to eight Chinese producers in London, encouraging more Chinese producers to i...
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Date:2014/09/25
24 Sept., 2014 The Foreign Economic Cooperation Office, Ministry of Environmental Protection announced that Zhejiang Quhua Fluorochemical Co., Ltd. has applied for the production quota of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) – 285.68 tonnes in 2014, whic...
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Date:2014/09/27
Niagara harvest is set to begin and harvest of early ripening varieties continues. This is the final scouting report for the 2014 season.
Posted on September 23, 2014 by Keith Mason, Michigan State University Extension, Department of Entomology...
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Date:2014/09/27
The September 2014 issue of the Landowner Oil and Gas newsletter features development Q&A, information on pipeline rights of ways and a leasing activity update.
Posted on September 23, 2014 by Curtis Talley Jr., Michigan State University E...
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Date:2014/09/27
Frost events will make management decisions more important for silage producers.
Posted on September 23, 2014 by Phil Kaatz, Michigan State University Extension
During the 2014 growing season, the weather has been consistently coole...
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Date:2014/09/28
Vice Minister Zhang Taolin met with Mr. Peter Walsh, Minister for Agriculture and Food Security of the State of Victoria, Australia in Beijing on September 25, 2014. The two sides exchanged views on stepping up agricultural cooperation in the future....
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Date:2014/09/28
Plans for the construction of China's first factory fish-farming ship at the Nansha islands are underway, the China Science Daily has reported.
The converted oil tanker could weigh as much as 200,000 tons, and will function as a multi-purpos...
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Date:2014/09/28
Chinese farmers harvest cotton in a field in Jiuquan city, Northwest China's Gansu province, October 8, 2013. [Photo/IC]
BEIJING - China's cotton demand is expected to exceed its domestic supply by 2 million tons in the year from September 2014 to...
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Date:2014/09/28
27 Sept., 2014 – Data from National Bureau of Statistics of the People’s Republic of China shows that in Jan.–Aug. 2014, China’s total output of coating reached 10.59 million tonnes, up 9.17% year on year. Of this, the output ...
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Date:2014/10/05
Michigan State University Extension releases a 2014-15 listing of insecticide products for key nursery crop pests, including alternatives to neonicotinoid insecticides for growers who will not be using them.
Posted on October 2, 2014 by Tom Dud...
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Date:2014/10/07
If you used hop beta acids (Hopguard, HopGuard II) under Section 18 emergency exemption label to control Varroa mites, please report use through a survey that’ll help secure future emergency exemptions and move this product toward full EPA registrati...
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Date:2014/10/07
If you used kasugamycin (Kasumin 2L) or dinotefuran (Scorpion, Venom) under the Section 18 emergency exemption label, please report use through a survey that will help secure future emergency exemptions and move these products toward full EPA registr...
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Date:2014/10/08
Now is the time for southwest Michigan growers to test corn stalk strength to see how many stalks are prone to lodging as well as have the ability to withstand wind.
Posted on October 7, 2014 by Bruce MacKellar, Michigan State University Extens...
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Date:2014/10/10
ANTANANARIVO, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese sugar plant in Madagascar has participated to the country's development, the Malagasy minister of Agriculture Rolland Ravatomanga said.
"I congratulate the China State Development and Investment Cor...
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Date:2014/10/10
BEIJING, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- A grain glut has forced the Chinese government to buy up some 30 million tonnes of wheat and early rice since late May this year, despite climbing inventories, according to the China Grain Reserve Corp (Sinograin) on Thurs...
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Date:2014/10/11
Beneficial fungus is another tool to help growers combat a common fungal disease.
Posted on October 8, 2014 by James DeDecker, Michigan State University Extension
Sclerotium of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum colonized by the bacterium Conio...