Taiwan's most popular charitable causes are education and child welfare, leaving room for Kuan-Shu's environmental and agricultural projects.
Matters aren't helped, he says, by the loss of village grazing land to new, agricultural projects for growing wheat and watermelons.
If the EPA can regulate any of those larger industries, what about smaller entities, such as many building and highway construction projects, agricultural operations, big box commercial enterprises, hospitals and even churches that emit lots of greenhouse gases?
Instead, governments have tended to try to increase agricultural output through expensive irrigation projects.
Water and conservation projects undertaken in the agricultural heartland precipitated a revolution in productivity that has fed much of the world.
Miranda ranks high among Venezuelan states in agricultural and pastoral production, and government irrigation projects have resulted in the expansion of its large-scale farming and in the diversification of its agriculture.
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Developers therefore favour onshore projects, and farmers, driven by falling agricultural incomes to look for new sources of income, are happy to oblige.
Schmidt elicited further detail from Al-Fadl on bin Laden's business activities, ranging from trade of agricultural products such as sugar and sesame seeds to various construction projects.
New projects include a national spot exchange for commodities, mainly agricultural.
In recent years, Iranian interests have wound themselves into everything from resources for the Indonesian fuel industry, to Ghanaian banking, to irrigation and oil refining in Sri Lanka, to initiatives by Iran's Ministry of Agricultural Jihad (yes, that's the name) for projects across much of Africa.
But the ministries that shell out the funds run the projects, so if a governor thinks his prefecture doesn't need a proposed agricultural road, he can't redirect the money to build a nursing home.
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Oku-noto no Aenokoto is an agricultural ritual transmitted from generation to generation by the rice farmers of the Noto Peninsula, which projects from Ishikawa prefecture in the centre of Japan s main island, Honshu.
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