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...“What the government could do now is to store as much rainfall [as possible] during the rainy season [through around October],” said an official from the Thai government’s irrigation department....
...Jane Ewing, senior vice-president for sustainability, sits in a room decorated with the iconography of corporate sustainability — a wind turbine, a bicycle, a lightbulb and a bee....
...Israel’s gross domestic product per head is about $36,000, making it richer than Italy or Spain, although its income inequality is among the rich world’s highest....
...The town of Bacanora in Mexico has lent its name to two products with intoxicating potential....
...Local heroes: 4moms develops robotics technology-based products that cater for the prenatal to pre-school needs of children....
...Israeli irrigation companies like Netafim export to countries like India and the United States....
...Its coffee, cereals and milk products sit on breakfast tables worldwide, meaning it has a global reputation to protect....
...Even in Texas, the heartland of the new oil boom, it makes up less than 1 per cent of total use, compared with 56 per cent for irrigation....
...Creativity, Inc – a finalist for FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year – explains the failures, the tensions and the ultimate accolades from Finding Nemo to Toy Story....
...Today, large pharmaceutical companies are keener than ever to buy biotech companies or license their most promising products....
...● Inc: A great US monthly magazine aimed at ambitious owners of growing companies....
...While the area planted with rice has almost doubled and production almost tripled in the decade up to 2010, the addition of irrigation and other inputs could boost yield to at least five tonnes per hectare...
...Ewing and beef is Ireland’s oil.”...
...That would leave around $3bn of agricultural products alone and $2bn of oil products trapped, Mr Calhoun said....
...Soman, chief agronomist of Jain Irrigation, a drip irrigation company. “There will not be much recovery.”...
...It invests wholly or mainly in companies operating in basic industries, whose products and services are in high demand in both emerging and developed markets....
...Margaret Ewing, Deloitte’s vice-chairman, said: “The continued squeeze on UK consumer spending power seems to be weighing on corporate sentiment....
...“[Leverage and inverse] products make up less than 10 per cent of ETF assets in the US, but have created about concern about all ETFs,” he said....
...The company also aims to lift communities out of poverty and turn subsistence farmers into entrepreneurs through the provision of superior seeds, training in modern farming methods and irrigation....
...demand for surveillance technology products in exchange, regulator and broker markets worldwide.”...
...Mr Neath added that only socially responsible investors take an interest in Unilever’s environmental initiatives, such as drip irrigation in Brazil, solar-powered ice cream freezers and water conservation...
...The shortfall was in its traditionally strong irrigation market – Amiad’s products were developed from providing water for a kibbutz in Israel....
...It seems that optimism is returning, but nobody is getting carried away,” said Margaret Ewing, Deloitte’s vice-chairman....
...On his last deployment to Afghanistan, he was among a group of seven soldiers who, following a Taliban ambush, spent four hours pinned down in an irrigation ditch, under fire from guns and rocket-propelled...
...Top holdings include Lindsay Manufacturing, a Nebraska-based producer of irrigation systems, the Potash Corp of Saskatchewan and Syngenta, the Anglo-Swiss seeds and crop protection group....
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