Colombia’s coffee exports soared 53 percent to 884,000 60-kg bags in March while output rose 24 percent to 779,000 sacks versus the same month last year, the nation’s coffee federation said on Wednesday. Read Article
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David Larios citizen filed a complaint with the Commission on Ecology and Sustainable Development OMR against property management projects SA de CV for the damage caused to the ecology, the environment and humans living in close proximity to hog farms. Read Article
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To act against pork producers who are making poor management in the disposal of dead animals on farm, causing heavy pollution, a report is required to act accordingly. Crimes against nature are not prosecuted ex officio. A spokesman for the Committee on Ecology and Sustainable Development of the State of Sonora (CEDES), reported that they […]
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Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Adbolessa Mesri, recalled that three years have been opening several dairy processing plants and corn flour in various states, under the agreement signed between Iran and Venezuela. Read Article
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The Venezuelan caloric consumption rose 55.5% from 1,800 kilocalories (kcal) per capita in the year of 1,998 to 2,800 in 2008, stressed the Minister of Popular Power for Agriculture and Land (MAT), Juan Carlos Loyo. Read Article
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The Brazilian government started on Monday to monitor food products imported from Japan in order to prevent radiation-contaminated goods from entering the country. Read Article
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The elimination of taxes on cigarettes, soft drinks, spirits, beers and wines, by legislators of three political parties, will leave under-funded the Instituto de Desarrollo Rural (INDER), known as the Institute of Agrarian Development. Read Article
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While coffee prices have increased to record levels in international markets, coffee growers in Venezuela have been hit by the official price policy that in the last few years has led to a decline in domestic production. Read Article.
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In a unique collaboration between scientists from the UK, Ecuador and Réunion, a new species of yeast has been discovered growing on the fruit of an unidentified and innocuous bramble collected from the biodiversity-rich Maquipucuna cloud forest nature reserve, near Quito, in Ecuador. Read Article
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Monsanto has turned the drop in international corn reserves and the havoc wreaked on Mexican corn production by an unexpected cold snap into an argument for speeding up commercial planting of its genetically modified (GM) corn in Mexico. The transnational is claiming that its modified seeds are the only solution to scarcity and rising grain […]
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Chilean research consortium aims to create Thompson Seedless table grapes that are resistant to fungal disease, but the product is not yet near the commercialization stage. The project has been undertaken by the Agricultural Investigation Institute (INIA), Fundación Chile, Agrícola Brown and Biofrutales. Read Article
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A Peruvian agricultural consortium has told Agraria.pe the country’s average agricultural wage could rise from US$15 to US$30 per day in 10 years, with continued labor shortages expected as the industry expands. Peruvian Agro Consortium (COPERAGRO) manager Ángel Manero said as the agricultural industry grows it will reach a stage where wages are the same […]
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Organizations and academics called for a ban on the use of endosulfan, a pesticide toxic, persistent pollutant sale in Mexico that is used on 20 crops, including maize and beans, and whose application has already been canceled in 73 countries. Read Article
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The state-run ALUR Uruguayan company invested 100 million dollars to produce biofuel, animal feed and electric power, today outlined a statistical summary of the entity. Based on sugar cane crops, sorghum, sunflower, canola and soybeans, ethanol and biodiesel produced ALUR with the aim of the Ancap oil, the majority shareholder, to comply with the percentage […]
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The booming ethanol industry is causing a dramatic transformation of the agricultural activity in large parts of southern Iraq. This is especially true in the state of Sao Paulo is experiencing a unique economic and social development while consolidating its position as the most marked regional sugar and ethanol producer in Brazil, Ribeirao Preto being […]
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Today, Interior Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter will announce the decision of government to postpone the change into winter time until May 7th. Read Article
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The Agriculture Minister Juan Camilo Restrepo, reiterated that the continuity of the cold wave is affecting crops of bananas, coffee and cocoa by the presence of pests. Read Article
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the Andes which is increasingly providing the garnish on fashionable Western dinner plates. But while demand for quinoa has given a lifeline to Bolivia’s farmers, the native population, no longer able to afford a staple of the national diet, is now facing the threat of malnutrition. Read Article
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BOLIVIAN company UNAGRO will build a modern Brazil nut processing plant in Tambopata in Madre de Dios, Peru producing shelled, dehydrated and specially selected products. Investment in the plant, which will begin operating in October 2011, has totalled USD6.0 million. Read Article – Registration Required
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Chile will allow imports of a larger array of US beef products, US officials said Wednesday following US President Barack Obama’s visit to the South American country. “Expanding our market for US beef exports to Chile is an important advance,” US Trade Representative Ron Kirk said, noting US beef and beef product exports to Chile […]
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United States farmers have called on the US government to approve the free trade agreements with Colombia and Panama because Mercosur countries are taking a bigger share of US agriculture exports to those countries. Read Article
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Brazil has unveiled plans to toughen rules that govern foreign ownership of land in an attempt to control speculative buying of large tracts of farmland and real estate by foreign investors, including sovereign fund managers. Read Article
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Crowded into precarious mud-floored dorms or sheet-metal trailers or forced to live in tents of plastic sheeting, with neither piped water nor electricity, after working 14-hour days: these are the harsh conditions faced by hundreds of thousands of rural workers in Argentina despite bumper crops and record earnings for agribusiness. Read Article
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Near the crest of a hill on a farm named La Edda for his mother, Francisco Flores bends a knee to touch the curled, yellowed leaves of a young coffee tree, one of hundreds on a windswept ridge where coffee grew strong two decades ago. “They live, but they don’t produce,” Flores said. “I have […]
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Mexico put its school children on a diet at the beginning of the year. But as often happens with New Year’s resolutions, there are many ways to cheat. Here is some of what is allowed for sale in schools under new guidelines that are intended to combat childhood obesity: lollipops, potato and corn chips (in […]
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Costa Rica will soon launch the first carbon neutral coffee export. The presentation will take place today (Monday) at a ceremony at the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (Foreign ministry) or Casa Amarilla. The coffee is produced by Cooperative COOPEDOTA and is the first of its kind in the world. The ceremony will be attended by […]
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DOLE Chile, the largest fruit exporter from Chile, has announced plans for expansion in the neighbouring market of Argentina, writes Vladimir Pekic. A key component of the plan is the installation of a new vegetable processing plant in Argentina. According to Juan Pablo Vicuña, Dole Chile’s general manager, his company wants to replicate the vegetable […]
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Swiss Tropical Fruit Marketing is a Costa Rican company. It’s a pineapple producer and exporter that has Global Gap certification. Currently they export to Europe, South America, South Korea and Central America, and serve the local market. Although Swiss Tropical has its own brand, 80% of its production is sold to customers with other brands […]
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Restrict buyers from importing products from areas where the pest is present. The Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA), through Resolution 001 of 2011 established national phytosanitary measures to control and decrease in different fruit species the presence of fruit flies. The goal is to areas of low pest prevalence and fruit growers reduce the damage caused […]
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Argentina’s tax agency has again raided the offices of leading multinational grain exporting companies, seeking evidence to back up charges that the companies cheated the government out of about 150 million pesos ($38 million) in taxes. Read Article
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Argentina has dissolved ONCCA, the agricultural trade agency responsible for grain export limits, and will be transferring control of the quotas to a commission controlled by the ministry of agriculture. The government has created an inter-disciplinary body, which will be in charge of granting subsidies following the dissolution of the farm trade watchdog. Read Article
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Mexico’s Central Bank is worried about crop failures from bad weather and may have to raise interest rates if they poison inflation expectations, the bank’s Gov. Agustin Carstens said in a newspaper interview. Read Article
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Environmentalists and deputies request the authorities not to grant permits for the cultivation and trade of genetically modified pineapple in the country. They warned of the possible risk that it would generate in health and in the environment. Read Article
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The Instituto del Café de Costa Rica (ICAFE) reports that more than 80% of the 2010-2011 coffee harvest ahs been sold. Given this, toasters announce shortages and higher prices. Read Article
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Biotech crop acreage grew another 10 percent last year worldwide, driven in part by strong growth in Brazil, where farmers have been rapidly switching to genetically engineered varieties of corn and soybeans, according to a study. Read Article
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PepsiCo has formed partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), a multilateral provider of development financing, to drive social and economic growth in 26 countries across the Latin America and the Caribbean. Read Article
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A 2 000 500 totals the number of farmers have shifted from Ituango, Valdivia, and those sidewalks Puerto Antioquia, Cauca and the Guaimaro, towards the town of Taraza, Antioquia, rejecting the spraying of illicit crops. The authorities warn that the coming hours the displaced farmers would arrive and that the situation could get worse, because […]
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The disease most feared by citrus growers worldwide is now in Costa Rica. At least 5 trees north of Alajuela tested positive for the presence of “Yellow Dragon. ” The State Phytosanitary Service confirmed the detection after a laboratory diagnosis. Trees with symptoms will be cut and efforts to eradicate the disease will be made […]
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Domestic imports of fructose (sugar substitute), mainly by soft drink bottlers, recorded an average growth of 144% over the past seven years, data show Tariff Information System of the Ministry of Economy. In 2010 imports of fructose corn syrup sweetener, they were 132% higher than in 2009. Read Article
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A group of environmentalists have deployed actions against the use of pesticides in Costa Rica, with publicity events in the local agricultural (famers) markets in Zaporta and Hatillo, held this Sunday. According to studies by the Regional de Estudios en Sustancias Tóxicas (IRET) – Institute for Studies on Toxic Substances, shows that the use of […]
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Thousands of people have rallied in La Paz, Bolivia to demand higher salaries as the cost of food and fuel increases. Unions led Friday’s demonstrators, who marched in the streets of the capital to protest the cost of living. Some of the protesters set off sticks of dynamite while taking part in the fifth day […]
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Yandi Condado and a small group of farmers in the southern Mexican state of Puebla decided a few years ago to process their peanuts as an economic boost — and to defend this traditional crop against the advances of more profitable options. Read Article
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Colombia’s truck drivers will lift their road blockades after reaching a breakthrough deal with the government, reported newspaper El Espectador. The 15-day strike came to an end after an intermediation from vice president Angelino Garzón with the Colombian Truck Drivers Association (ACC), the story reported. Read Article
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Guatemala has the highest rate of chronic malnutrition among children in Latin America, and the health consequences continue on through adulthood. Read Article
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February’s freezing fury has left a path of crumpled crops, pummeled harvests and dashed dreams in the countryside of northern Mexico. Hardest hit was the northwestern state of Sinaloa, known as the”Bread Basket of Mexico,” where about 750,000 acres of corn crops were reported destroyed after unusually cold temperatures blanketed the north of the country […]
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Mexico is facing what could be its worst coffee harvest in almost 20 years. Unseasonal rains and cold weather have resulted in a crop that is ripening at an uneven pace. These coffee-harvest anomalies are exacerbated by a shortage of labor at farms where workers, paid by the bucket, haven’t found enough coffee berries to […]
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* Farmers spurred by prices expanding arabicas coffee land * Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru boost output as others decline * Global demand rising, not enough to meet the gap – Read Article
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Bolivia will tap central-bank reserves to boost agricultural production and stockpile food, joining countries from Africa to Asia in a bid to avoid a looming global “crisis,” Finance Minister Luis Arce said. Rising food prices pushed tens of millions of people into extreme poverty last year and are reaching “dangerous levels” in some countries, World […]
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Argentine trade unions and grains exporters will meet for last-ditch wage talks on Wednesday to try to avert a new strike after workers last month blocked ports in one of the world’s top food suppliers. Read Article
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Countries in Latin America and Africa including Bolivia and Mozambique are most at risk of food riots as prices advance, said the United Nations. The past month’s protests in North Africa and the Middle East were partly linked to agriculture costs. World food prices climbed to a record in January, the UN said on Feb. […]
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COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA — Dotted along every major thoroughfare, vendors set up tarps to sell their wares. When I drove by a long line of people, shopping bags in hand, I was curious what wonderful product was being offered. As I peered under the covered bed of the old truck, one man was tossed a white […]
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A wave of violent protests is shaking Bolivia. Bolivian President Evo Morales had to abandon a public event celebrating Bolivia’s 230th anniversary of Independence after being confronted by protestors angry over food shortages and price rises. Scheduled to talk in the mining city of Oruro, he and his team had to leave the city quickly […]
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This is grim news: food prices are reaching record levels worldwide. The thousands of farmers who have killed themselves over the past decade seem to have no precedent. According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation’s director, the goal to reduce the number of hungry people by half will only be achieved in 2050. Read […]
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Bolivian President Evo Morales hastily left the southern mining city of Oruro on Feb. 11 after protesters angered by rising food prices and shortages jeered him and set off dynamite. Morales canceled plans to lead a march in the city commemorating an 1871 anti-colonial uprising there, and retreated back to the capital, La Paz. Read […]
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Brazil and Argentina came out Friday against a French proposal to be put to the G20 to regulate commodity prices whose recent rises are blamed for a spike in food costs. IMF chief urges global monetary reform. Read Article
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Most Indonesians generally know Argentina for its soccer and tango. But they don’t know that the main ingredient — soybean — in staple foods such as tempe, tofu and soy sauce comes mostly from Argentina. In recent years, Indonesia has become one of the Asia’s biggest soybean importers — buying the food commodity mainly from […]
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The Peruvian government has been forced to offer talks with governors, the ombudsperson’s office and Catholic Church leaders, to stem the outcry over two emergency decrees that waive the requirement for environmental certificates for 33 investment projects, including hydroelectric dams in the Amazon rainforest. Read Article
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As freshwater disappears from the super-populated Peruvian coast, the most water-intensive crops are expanding unabated as highly profitable exports. Observers warn about the harm this is causing and demand greater responsibility from the government and all involved. Read Article
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Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (SCC) today announced a restructuring that will create a newly named business unit focused on providing crop protection solutions in the Latin American agricultural markets. The new business unit, Sumitomo Chemical Latin America (SCLA) will focus on providing Latin American growers with leading crop management products and active ingredients developed, manufactured […]
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Disease known as “tar spot” threatens maize in Honduras ——————————————————- The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock called for urgent cooperation in fighting a disease known as “tar spot” which is decimating white maize. The disease is attacking the fields of small farmers with more than 30 per cent of their crops affected. In Honduras this […]
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Uruguay has a significant milk industry and dairy products in the domestic market are relatively cheap (*), explained Carlos Torterolo president of Uruguay’s national association of milk farmers. Read Article
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sustainable palm oil production, with an initiative that brings a new crop to its Brazilian supply chain. ADM is a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, a multi-stakeholder organization that has been working to transform the supply chain for palm oil since 2004. The oil is used widely in consumer food products, as […]
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Sugar prices are unlikely to fall in the second quarter from current levels near three-decade highs, even with the start of a big harvest in Brazil, as rising supply is met with the unleashing of pent-up demand. Read Article
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The World Bank and International Monetary Fund are warning poor regions that have so far not been hit by rising food prices, like sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, to get ready to face them. Food price volatility is here to stay, the World Bank cautioned, amid growing worries there could be another full-blown food crisis […]
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An Argentine provincial government has offered financial assistance to its farmers in the form of a US$1.96 million subsidy, reported news site Rionegro.com.ar.Neuquén territory development minister Leandro Bertoya. The move was led by Neuquén vice-governor Ana Pechen and territory development minister Leandro Bertoya, offering US$623.75 per cultivated hectare, the story reported. Read Article
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Peru’s Lambayeque region is on the cusp of receiving a $190 million tunnel and dam system to provide water for new agricultural lands, which the government will auction off to both national and international investors. The Olmos Transandino Project is led by a subsidiary of Brazilian company Odebrecht and when construction is finished in 2012, […]
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United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investigating the possibility of lifting quarantine barriers for 30 different Peruvian products this year. Peru’s National Agriculture Sanitary Service (Senasa) said the fruits include figs, prickly pears, papayas, passion fruit, custard apples, tomatoes and camu camu, which is an Amazonian relative of the guava berry. Read Article
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Last week the first watermelons and yellow melons were shipped to the Netherlands from Costa Rica. Levarht a dutch importer has been an important importer of Costa Rican melons and works exclusively with growers. Read Article
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Argentine officials admitted deaths due to malnutrition among the country’s poor of indigenous Latin American people and promised government action to minimize the problem. Read Article
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Major droughts may have spurred the demise of multiple cultures and cities in pre-Hispanic Mexico over the last millennium. A new study, which used tree rings to add many hundreds of years to the region’s climate record, pinpointed four severe droughts in the region over the last 1,200 years. Read Article
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Based on data released by the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV), the rising cost of food is unstoppable. This is the variable that most impacts the quality of life in the poorest Venezuelan households. The cost of agricultural products in January heightened 9.1 percent and in the last twelve months, the cumulative increase in prices […]
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11 municipalities in Sinaloa CULIACÁN._ were considered yesterday “emergency zone” by the federal government, declaring that give them access to extra resources of the National Disaster Fund, known as Fonden. The municipalities affected by severe frosts, as the General Coordination of Civil Protection of the Interior Ministry were Choix, Sinaloa, Mocorito, Angostura, Cosalá, San Ignacio, […]
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In order to welcome hundreds of families with limited economic resources of the province, especially those who have been affected by migration, Canar Provincial Government implemented in May this year a production plant to market it horchata national level. Read Article
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Two years ago, when Los Angeles businessman Alejandro Viecco visited the agave-fields surrounding the Mexican town of Tequila—where the eponymous liquor is made—he made a startling discovery. The process of making tequila, it turns out, can be as messy, smelly and disgusting as the aftermath of drinking too much of it. Read Article
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Mexico — Yank the husks off ears of corn grown in the mountains of southern Mexico, and you may find kernels that are red, yellow, white, blue, black or even variegated. Read Article
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Amid the peak Valentine’s Day flower season, U.S. agents in Miami are working overtime to make sure pretty love bouquets are not used as transportation by exotic South American pests or cocaine traffickers. Read Article
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More than 3000 individuals have arrived in Anorí, fearful of possible retaliation by the FARC for the fumigation of illicit crops and the installation of three Army bases in the northeastern population of Antioquia. Read Article
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Three of every ten Argentines fall below the poverty line, 30.9% of the population, Ecolatina consultants said and they warned that “if prices continue to increase, it will be difficult for poor people’s income to beat inflation.” Read Article
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The value of Nicaragua’s coffee exports rose 50.3 percent in the first three months of the 2010-2011 harvest, compared to the same period last season, a government source said today. Coffee sales abroad from October to December 2010 totaled 43.9 million dollars, while from October to December 2009 were $ 29.2 million, detailed the Center […]
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Farmers’ protests and the rise in corn tortilla prices in late December put temporary brakes on the Mexican Senate, which was preparing to lift the national ban on utilising maize to make fuel alcohol, or ethanol. Read Article
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Argentine farmers said on Sunday they will lift a week-long strike that halted grain markets in the commodity powerhouse, but they vowed to resume protesting the government’s export curbs that affect their incomes. Mario Llambias, head of the Rural Confederation of Argentina, said the trade strike will be lifted as agreed, but farmers will keep […]
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The cost of family food basket-CAF-December 2010 Bs.F. 2.798,01, raised to Bs.F. 2798.01, an increase of Bs.F. 111,16, or 4.1% compared to November 2010. The annualized change in the cost of food basket for the period December 2010-December 2009 is 39.4%, 790.76 bolivars, 64.6% of the minimum wage. Read Article
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Argentina will continue to have a rainfall deficit in the seven days from Monday. Telvent DTN Inc. said in a forecast. The lack of rainfall, combined with above-normal temperatures, will stress pollinating corn and developing soybeans, the forecaster said. Read Article
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The strongest La Niña weather system in 50 years has brought historic flooding to Australia and drought to Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, driving up food prices. Scientists now believe climate change is likely enhancing the impacts of the famous El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a cyclical climate phenomenon that affects weather patterns around the world. Read […]
Manabi is ready for another winter. Both farmers and the authorities know that prevention is the only way to prevent the crops from flooding and lose money. For example, the Provincial Council of Manabi prevention executed 86 works in 22 districts of the province with an investment of USD 9 million dollars. Read Article
The value of agricultural exports from Peru reached US $3 billion from January to November, a 30.2% increase over the same period in 2009, according to statistics from the country’s Agricultural Ministry. As reported by business news website America Economia, the total broke prior records, even without figures for December, the report said. Read Article
Brazil had a record year exporting coffee in 2010, bringing in $5.7 billion from the bitter beans and consolidating its position as easily the world’s biggest coffee producer, data released Monday showed. Brazil’s Council of Coffee Exporters (CECAFE) said in a statement that revenue was 33 percent higher than for 2009 and that the volume […]
It’s as inhospitable as climates come for crop cultivation, the dry and rocky soils of Bolivia’s semiarid altiplain. Miguel Choque can see his breath as surveys his fields of quinoa, the Andean “supergrain.” In late March or April, the flowering plants will paint the rugged landscape yellow, green and red. Their diminutive seed, which powered […]
Unprecedented prices of food items will strongly affect the world’s poorest people, and this will raise the risk of protests, calls to ban exports, expropriation of farmlands owned by foreigners and more short-term price increases driven by investors. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said that food prices reached all-time highs […]
A vision of “the Apocalypse, everything burnt, turned black from ashes and smoke,” was what photographer Mila Petrillo saw when she returned in October to what had been her Eden in the Brazilian municipality of Alto Paraiso, 230 km from Brasilia. Read Article
Sugar is short in Bolivia, so President Evo Morales is urging the country to look elsewhere for its sweets. Morales says the government is encouraging production of honey and stevia, and says officials will handle selling and exporting it. Read Article
Venezuelan officials and troops began seizing 47 private ranches on Friday as President Hugo Chavez pushes ahead with a socialist-oriented effort to take over big swaths of agricultural land. Agriculture Ministry officials began taking control of the land accompanied by soldiers and pro-government farmers. Together the ranches in western Venezuela cover more than 93 square […]
Corn and soybean crops in Brazil and Argentina will be smaller than forecast by the U.S. government because dry weather delayed planting, said Michael Cordonnier, the president of forecaster Soybean & Corn Advisor Inc. Read Full Story