If America's agricultural policies are bad, the EU's are worse.
As most of India's agricultural land depends on rainfall rather than irrigation, variations in monsoon's arrival date can throw into disarray plans for sowing summer crops such as rice, sugar cane, cotton and oilseeds.
Monsanto's agricultural productivity sales, which include sales of its Roundup product, were flat for the quarter.
But land reform alone cannot redress all the shortcomings of the country's agricultural and social policies.
The aquifer provides drinking water for much of the state and is important for Nebraska's agricultural economy.
The fear is that the country's agricultural sector will be hurt by reduced tariffs on farm products.
Water shortages, dust bowls and urbanization have cut China's agricultural land base by 10% in the past decade.
True, the government itself says that a mere 1% of farms occupy more than half Brazil's agricultural land.
EU's agricultural commissioner, Franz Fischler, which is likely to shift spending from production subsidies to broader rural development goals.
Besides being unconstitutional, this upset aid donors and threatened Zimbabwe's agricultural export earnings.
The rules made sales of certain cuts of beef illegal and had a devastating effect on the UK's agricultural industry.
This often throws them into debt and threatens to cede control of a country's agricultural system to foreign GMO manufacturers.
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The Norwegian government has responded to the crisis by reducing tariffs on milk product imports, the country's agricultural authorities said.
The funding - for adopting environmentally friendly methods - will be available thorugh the Common Agricultural Policy's new Entry Level Scheme.
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Senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi was equally critical, warning that it would lead to foreign companies monopolising India's agricultural output.
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Though GM crops still represent only a fraction of the world's agricultural output, their planting is growing at double-digit annual rates.
But Hope Group, founded by four brothers in China's agricultural heartland province of Sichuan, is well on its way to achieving its goals.
The Yellow River, one of the world's longest, supplies water to more than 150 million people and 15 percent of China's agricultural land.
Egypt's agricultural value-added per person rose more than 20% in 1990-2007.
Sena was one of many workers hired to help slash and burn land in Mato Gross state to make room for crops on Brazil's agricultural frontier.
Officials pay the farmers compensation on the basis of the land's agricultural value, whereas developers buy the land at a price nearer to its commercial value.
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Mr. Frampton sees faster-growing, prettier Christmas trees as critical to the state's agricultural economy, which is reeling from the decline of tobacco and from rapid suburban growth.
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Shanghai's Agricultural Commission announced Friday afternoon that vendors would be compensated at least 50% of the market price of the birds they were forced to give up.
In Central California, the nation's agricultural powerhouse and a region with one of the highest poverty levels, the 1986 law had a profound impact on people like Mejia.
The killing of birds at the Huhuai market in Shanghai started Thursday night after the city's agricultural committee ordered it in a notice also posted on its website.
By contrast, the report noted, Sudan's agricultural sector remains undercapitalized.
It has done little to tackle the rudimentary problem in Russia's agricultural sector -- namely the absence of institutionalized ownership of land -- and has likely retarded the privatization process.
All the rice was produced at small-scale mills of the kind common in China's agricultural sector, which remains extremely localized and composed of smaller operations, making it difficult to regulate standards.
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