Companies on their use of patented technology and take the company + base + farmers farming model, in the North Sea, Hainan has dozens of acres of waters of the breeding base, with hundreds of farmers.
Withtheworld's biggestpoultry population and hundredsof millions of farmersraising birdsintheir backyards, China is seen as crucialin the global fight againstbird flu.
With hundreds of farmers not planting traditional food crops this season, Nkansah believes there is a real risk that the shift to biofuels will result in food shortages.
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It's signed contracts with Idaho farmers to buy hundredsof thousands of tons of wheat and barley straw, and hopes to break ground on the first plant, possibly in Idaho, next year.
Ineptness at the Rural Payments Agency, the bit of government charged with distributing agricultural subsidies, led to seriously delayed payment for hundredsoffarmers and the resignation of its boss in 2006.
Because I can just picture the puzzlement of the farmers when they suddenly find themselves with not just hundreds but thousands of followers on Twitter.