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...The lower-carbon fertiliser produced is then used on 120 arable farms in Nestle’s supply chain in Suffolk and Northamptonshire....
...The Israel-based company said that the current price for a tonne delivered to farms in the UK was £200 ($248)....
...Growth in Russian agriculture and linked sectors could potentially continue to be strong as rising profits allow farm groups to invest in technology and more fertilisers to improve sub-par productivity....
...Huaken was set up in 1992 as a division of China State Farms Agribusiness Group and was registered as a joint stock company in 1997....
...How to improve African farm data So how do we make sure that a country like Nigeria has an accurate understanding of the size of its own economy, and that policymakers in Kenya and beyond make optimal, well-timed...
...The government can and should direct resources away from wasteful subsidies on fertilizers, food, fuels and power and fund households below a certain income level through vouchers, which can be used for...
...Agriculture, farming and fisheries expanded 3.9 per cent in the country last year on the back of growing use of fertilizer and an increase in pig and chicken farms....
...The International Fertilizer Industry Association said that global fertiliser consumption would hit 178.3m tonnes in the 2011-12 crop year, up 3 per cent from last year....
...At least 26 Chinese companies have acquired stakes in foreign agriculture, food, fertilizer and fishery assets....
...So, there’s no surprise that the country’s 120 million farms are demanding more and more fertiliser....
...On their farm, they had used fertilizer in the last growing season, but not the one before, because they had had no money left to buy it then....
...Energy consumption per hectare in Romania is one sixth of that in France; the consumption of pesticides and fertilizers one third of French levels....
...“If you ask me if I’m happy on a golf course or on my farm, I’m happy on both.” His voice is a quiet South African, English rather than Afrikaans. “But I’m a little more happy on my farm.”...
...those of fertilizers and stock feed....
...mostly on fresh grass and hay grown on his permanent pastures, which are never ploughed and which are on such rich Fenland silt soils – “the best land in England” – that he has no need to add artificial fertilizer...
...When food prices start peaking you’ll turn up in your camper van to find last year’s spot packed out with genetically modified fertilizer-fed soya beans. Then prices will fall back....
...Durant grew up on his family’s dairy farm north of Paris....
...She revived herself by buying herbs from a farm in Maryland and then moving deep into North Carolina. Four Hedges’ text belongs in this wider vision. The garden was abandoned but the vision lived on....
...Francl said the wholesale fertilizer price drop began about two months ago, generally after farmers applied fertilizer to their fields in the fall....
...Fertilizer costs remain high, even as funding dries up and prices fall....
...Reliance has been busy sealing orders for its gas from government fertilizer companies and power plant operators....
...However, he pointed out that a third of US farmers receive their loans from the Farm Credit System, a US government-backed lending organisation specifically for agriculture....
...Farmers face tighter credit to buy fertilizers or equipment....
...Initiatives such as the farm loan waiver and soaring subsidies for oil and fertilizers as well as government pay rises have led to a sharp decline in the health of government finances....
...Corn – the main crop grown in the Midwest – is fertilizer-intensive....
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