Uganda: More Funds Should Be Allocated to Agriculture From AllAfrica.com This has resulted to problems like a decline in agricultural output, hunger and poverty, lack of access to quality technology, pests and diseases and lack of agricultural processing and marketing infrastructure. The NRM government liberalised agricultural markets and abolished commodity-marketing institutions under the guise of eliminating monopoly and ensuring better returns to farmers. The vacuum left by abolished commodity marketing institutions enabled few individuals close to or within...

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26-02-2008: Mimos, Oracle team up on sensor grid for agriculture ... From The Edge Daily KUALA LUMPUR: Mimos Bhd and Oracle Corporation Malaysia are collaborating to develop and deploy a sensor grid pilot project for the agriculture industry under KnowledgeGRID Malaysia, a Mimos initiative. He added that benchmarking against available technologies in the market was being done in an effort to make the technology affordable for lower-end farmers. "What Mimos is doing today will be good for Oracle as we would eventually introduce this solution to our peers regionally and globally,"...

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Compost Can Turn Agricultural Soils Into A Carbon Sink, Thus ... From persianoad.wordpress.com Applying organic fertilizers, such as those resulting from composting, to agricultural land could increase the amount of carbon stored in these soils and contribute significantly to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, according to new research. Applications of organic matter (in the form of organic fertilizers) can lead either to a build-up of soil organic carbon over time, or a reduction in the rate at which organic matter is depleted from soils. Their results suggest that soils...

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What is Biodynamic agriculture and who is Rudolf Steiner? From www.1466group.com/biodynamic_treechange/ Little known to most people, the biodynamic approach to grape growing has become one of the more controversial issues within the wine industry. Aside from biodynamics, the Waldorf school network, which includes close to 2,500 schools worldwide, uses a holistic approach to teaching that is based on these principles. Biodynamics is often lumped together with organic farming. What I mean by this is that unlike both chemical and organic agriculture, biodynamics is not just concerned with the...

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NJ school districts got suspect beef From BusinessWeek Altogether, they said, New Jersey schools received about 168,000 pounds of meat from a California slaughterhouse -- the Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. In a teleconference Monday, New Jersey Agriculture Secretary Charles Kuperus said the meat products, distributed through the National School Lunch Program, reached New Jersey schools via three food processors. The department posted a list of school districts and some individual schools that received the meat on its Web site late Monday. The list...

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