Following three years of decreasing production levels, the North African nation realized it needed a new framework to entice increasingly anxious foreign firms back to the fields.
But especially in rural India, where women often go back to the fields mere days after giving birth, babies' diets are often supplemented with cow's milk and water, which exposes them to infection.
Because American Giant's supply chain can be traced all the way back to the US cotton fields, with fabric being specially woven and dyed for it, getting a new shipment of raw materials wasn't as simple as making a phone call and waiting for an overnight delivery.
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In the fog-covered town of Shuangli, corn farmer Zheng Xianlan said Sunday that she had rushed from the fields back to her home when the quake struck, and cried when she saw that the roof collapsed.
The framework also allowed councils to protect back gardens, while ensuring that "playing fields continued to benefit from the same protection that they do currently", planning minister Greg Clark said.
Such firms, by building companies that stretch back from the customer to the gas fields, are encroaching on oil's turf.
Merely getting to the fields and back is risky.
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"Without these horses, the fields would go back to forest, " he says.
They know they need to direct the oil revenues back into their fields very soon, before they decline beyond the point of repair.
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For the All-American from Hawaii, who spurned the beaches of California in favor of the frozen fields of Indiana, winning a championship was the reason he came back to South Bend.
Soon villagers began noticing elephant footprints stopping abruptly at the edge of chili fields and tracking back to other plots.
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The subsequent application of socialist economics to the Venezuelan fields has done little to bring that volume back.
That means he is turning his back on the kinds of large-scale seismic testing used to prospect for elephant fields--a high-margin business dominated by Schlumberger.
From fields more than half a century old (some dating back to the first oil discoveries in the Middle East in 1908) comes 60% of Iran's oil.
As described by ice sculptor Joseph Amendola in his book Ice Carving Made Easy, written records dating back to 600 BC reveal that in the highlands of northwest China, farmers would flood their fields with water, wait for it to freeze, harvest blocks of ice and then store them in insulated facilities to help preserve perishables like seafood.
As we head back out into the paddy fields, he lights a clove-scented cigarette and points to the shadowy, still-active volcano that shares its name with him - Gunung Agung, the tallest, most sacred mountain on Bali, from which rivers are said to flow and the volcanic soil gains its rich fertility.
Back in the Kolar Gold Fields, the employees pray for their future at the local church dedicated to the Mother of Mines.
"Now we were able to restore most of the oil fields and they are ready to produce but we need our work force to come back, " said Mr. Ghanem.
The United States has received widespread criticism in Europe, as well as in Iraq, for having taken steps to protect Iraqi oil fields but failing to take similar steps to protect the museums in Baghdad that house treasures dating back thousands of years.
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