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  • Landowners determine impacts of oil and gas leasing negotiation efforts in survey

    Date:2014/10/12

    Results of a survey sent to 130 landowners in 19 Michigan counties determines their activities in oil and gas leasing and their sources of assistance information. Posted on October 10, 2014 by Curtis Talley Jr., Michigan State University Exten...

  • Alibaba targets rural expansion with major investment

    Date:2014/10/14

    HANGZHOU, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group plans to invest 10 billion yuan (1.6 billion U.S. dollars) within three to five years to build thousands of facilities in rural China to tap rising demand in these areas, it announc...

  • Vice Minister Niu Dun attends 3rd SCO Ministerial Meeting on Agriculture

    Date:2014/10/13

    Vice Minister Niu Dun headed a Chinese delegation to the 3rd Ministerial Meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on Agriculture held in Moscow on Oct.9, 2014.   In his speech, Vice Minister Niu noted that, over recent years, SCO ...

  • People in N China busy with stocking vegetables before winter season

    Date:2014/10/13

      Local residents buy Chinese cabbage in Changchun City, northeast China's Jilin Province, Oct. 9, 2014. Many people in China's northern area are busy with stocking vegetables such as green onion, Chinese cabbage and potato before the winter sea...

  • Should you manage these five insects commonly found on coniferous and deciduous trees?

    Date:2014/10/15

    Consider the severity, pest type, and prevalence when deciding on an integrated pest management strategy. Posted on October 14, 2014 by Heidi Wollaeger, Michigan State University Extension Webbing on Norway spruce. Photo by Heidi Wolla...

  • Freeze damage in fall vegetables: Identifying and preventing

    Date:2014/10/15

    Recent frost advisories are relevant for late-season vegetables. Posted on October 13, 2014 by Ben Phillips, Michigan State University Extension A "water-soaked" appearance is a common identifier of freeze damage on fruiting vegetables...

  • Pangang Group Company Ltd.'s titanium sponge factory sells 2,321.67 tonnes of products in Q1-Q3 2014

    Date:2014/10/15

    13 Oct., 2014 – Pangang Group Company Ltd. released that its titanium sponge factory totally sold 2,321.67 tonnes of titanium sponge in Q1–Q3 2014 and developed new customers for 20. At present, the factory receives orders of more than 2,...

  • China to donate 50 mln USD to FAO

    Date:2014/10/16

      Chinese Premier Li Keqiang gives a speech at the headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in Rome, capital of Italy, Oct 15, 2014. [Photo/Xinhua]   ROME, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- Visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqian...

  • Akzo Nobel raises price of some coating products in China

    Date:2014/10/15

    8 Oct., 2014 – Akzo Nobel announced that the price of its coating product containing epoxy resin in China was raised by 5%–9%. It is disclosed that this coating product is produced and sold in China and the price rise is only for the coat...

  • China's Jilin Province seeks agro cooperation with Zambia

    Date:2014/10/17

    LUSAKA, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- Deputy Governor of Jilin Province Sui Zhongcheng on Thursday held talks with senior Zambian government officials aimed at establishing cooperation in the agriculture sector.   The deputy governor, who is leading a del...

  • China, Thailand pledge closer cooperation in agriculture, infrastructure

    Date:2014/10/17

    MILAN, Italy, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and his Thai counterpart, Prayuth Chan-ocha, met here Thursday and agreed to strengthen bilateral cooperation in trade, infrastructure and agriculture.   The two countries have kept he...

  • China celebrates World Food Day in Beijing

    Date:2014/10/17

    Vice Minister Niu Dun attended and addressed the World Food Day (WFD) celebration held in Tsinghua University in Beijing on Oct.16, 2014. The event was jointly hosted by MOA, the State Administration of Grain (SAG) and the  UN Food and Agricultu...

  • Harvest season comes China's Tibet

    Date:2014/10/20

    Farmers thresh grain in Shengma Village of Sa'gya County in Xigaze, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Oct. 18, 2014. As the harvest season comes, local farmers are busy with collecting grain. (Xinhua/Wen Tao)   Farmers screen newly-pi...

  • New techniques boost crop yields in the desert

    Date:2014/10/20

    Agriculture is a fundamental industry for the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and one in which it is a highly competitive player. The XPCC continues to build large-scale modern farms, which in 2013 grew a total of 1.47 million metric tons...

  • Smiles in the field

    Date:2014/10/21

    With hands full of crops and smiles on faces, farmers in Sanmenxia, Central China’s Henan province, are busy harvesting red sorghum, green sunflowers, yellow soybeans and peanuts in their fields during the golden harvest season of October.   ...

  • Fishing for solutions

    Date:2014/10/21

    Businesses bank on Chinese palates to help rid US of invasive Asian carp, as Wang Qian reports.   For the past three years, John Jia has been getting dozens of calls every day asking about one of the most talked about products heading from the ...

  • Influence of RMB appreciation

    Date:2014/10/20

    - RMB exchange rate   GT's export is greatly subjected to RMB's exchange rate after the cancelation of export rebate. The expectation of RMB's appreciation exists all the time and the Chinese government has started to tackle ...

  • Rebuilding life of ethnic people displaced by poverty

    Date:2014/10/23

    After years traveling the mountains of Guizhou Province in southwest China performing odd jobs, Xie Jincheng recently returned home to showcase his culture in the village's fledgling tourism industry.   "I'll settle down for a couple of years to...

  • Charity program helps providing water for 2.4 million rural Chinese

    Date:2014/10/23

    BEIJING, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- A charity program has helped provide safe drinking water to more than 2.4 million rural residents in China since 2000.   The program has financed the construction of about 135,000 water tanks and 1,600 small water su...

  • China donates food to Ebola-hit nations

    Date:2014/10/22

    China has donated $6 million to help stave off food shortages in the three African countries worst affected by the Ebola virus, the United Nations World Food Programme announced on Monday   The aid is part of Beijing's growing assistance to a c...

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