The ritual combines knowledge of agriculture, food processing, handicrafts (costumes, tools and musical instruments) and the construction of houses and fishing dams.
The Republic of the Gambia is one of the least developed and poorest countries in Africa, with an economy that is heavily dependent on agriculture and the processing of agricultural products.
Some industries such as banking are fairly well along in making computer systems year-2000 compliant, but others, including food processing, agriculture and farming, some government services, construction, law, and medical practice are lagging, Marcoccio said.
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Fallin said her administration will work with the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture to ensure that any horse meat processing plant in the state is run appropriately, follows state and local laws, and does not pose a hazard to the community.
The poultry processing giant is regulated by the Agriculture Department.
Smaltz was asked to determine whether former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy took favors from companies, including chicken-processing giant Tyson Foods, that had business before his department.
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.
That outbreak and others prompted the U.S. Department of Agriculture to announce a plan in December to increase testing for salmonella at poultry processing plants.
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In New Mexico, a processing plant has been fighting the U.S. Department of Agriculture for more than a year for approval to convert its former cattle slaughter operation into a horse slaughterhouse.
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