Improved drilling techniques and access to immense shale gas fields across the country have seen a boom in domestic gas production.

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Business must respond as well, particularly by giving small-holder farmers the access to new crop varieties, techniques and markets.

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The workshop (13-14 December 2004) aimed to give participants an overview and degree of familiarity about the digital frontier, orient participants on techniques, issues and technology for digitizing and increasing access of their AV materials, and provide a venue to define or describe issues, obstacles and alternatives regarding digitization in the Asian context.

UNESCO: Education

The foreign investment banks have two things that most domestic firms lack: access to big foreign institutional customers, which buy many of these financial instruments, and expertise in the techniques of modern finance.

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But the WTO found that fishing techniques used in other parts of the ocean can also harm dolphins, and that excluding Mexican tuna from access to the label under especially strict terms was discriminatory.

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