However our agriculture ministry appears to be the main delay to saving vultures from extinction.
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The Agriculture Ministry said it was a case of fraudulent labeling but represented no health threat.
But even the agriculture ministry's own polls show that the beef-on-the-bone ban is hugely unpopular.
The agriculture ministry guarantees milk prices at rates 30% above even those paid to Europe's pampered farmers.
Investigators detected the virus in 18 farms in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, Mexico's Agriculture Ministry said this week.
"This virus is exclusive to birds, so there is no risk for public safety, " the Agriculture Ministry said earlier this month.
Rural voters, the LDP's traditional power base, have become particularly disillusioned, not least because of the revolving door at the agriculture ministry.
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According to Andres Oopkaup, Deputy Secretary General of Estonia's Agriculture Ministry, 37% of food and farm output is dependent on domestic milk production.
The Brazilian Agriculture Ministry said the amounts of carbendazim that it authorizes for exported products follow United Nations and World Health Organization guidelines.
The Agriculture Ministry confirmed late Thursday that the H7N9 virus had been detected in live pigeons on sale at a produce market in Shanghai.
SEPA. Their efforts to persuade the agriculture ministry to co-operate over livestock-related threats to public health, such as bird flu, have encountered stubborn resistance.
Also on Monday, the Spanish agriculture ministry announced that traces of horsemeat had been found in beef pasta meals produced by brands owned by Nestle.
On Friday, buyers in Japan bought French, Australian and Canadian wheat, but there were no applications for U.S. wheat, an agriculture ministry official in Tokyo said.
But the agriculture ministry, which will make the final decision, has insisted on waiting for the results of last meloxicam tests which are due next week.
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The agriculture ministry handles disasters for the central government, an arrangement born of the view that farmers and the food supply are most at risk after catastrophes.
Officials have vaccinated 1.9 million birds since the outbreak began earlier this month, and they plan to vaccinate millions more, the Agriculture Ministry said in a statement this week.
Indeed, in some respects the government has been ever so quietly relaxing the ban: guidance issued by the agriculture ministry in March allowed beef bones to be supplied for pets.
Turkey's agriculture ministry said earlier that the alcoholic drinks served on the yacht had been imported by an Ankara company from North Cyprus and distributed to Ankara, Mersin, Antalya and Mugla.
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The agriculture ministry in Athens and the Corfiot prefecture or regional government, which is directly elected, have been tussling over who should take responsibility for protecting the crop and who should pay for it.
Investigators from the French Agriculture Ministry identified horse meat labeled as beef from French meat-processing company Spanghero SAS. The ministry suspended Spanghero's activities last Thursday but authorized it to resume some of its activities on Monday.
Although the stimulus measures will not change that, the government does hope to alleviate some of the immediate scarcity: of the 5.9 billion baht allocated to the agriculture ministry, three-quarters will be spent on efforts to improve irrigation.
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The obstacle is agriculture and opposition of the Ministry of Agriculture and politicians, including within JDP, representing farmers.
This hypothesis seems to derive from Ministry of Agriculture briefings, though the ministry denies responsibility, and says inquiries into the source of the outbreak are ongoing.
John Gummer, Agriculture Secretary from 1998 to 1993 was praised by the report for introducing more openness into the Ministry of Agriculture.
Yet the Ministry of Agriculture cleared the company after it provided samples for testing.
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The Angolan Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries purchased the slender multipurpose vessel.
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Pier Luigi Petrillo , UNESCO Working Group Coordinator, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry.
Thomlinson, who was working for the then Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, found the work distressing.
The Ministry of Agriculture has said about 1, 000 pigs on the farm would be slaughtered in the next couple of days.
The new cases confirmed by the Ministry of Agriculture are in the English counties of Worcestershire, Tyne and Wear, Wiltshire, Staffordshire.
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