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...A showdown occurred between the pest and the pest control gladiators....
...Rothamsted Research, which gave evidence to the same government committee, does at least offer an early warning system about aphids....
...It is excellent that we have a swift report on them from a committee of the House of Lords, appointed on February 1....
...The increasing fragmentation of the non-urban land that remains interrupts wildlife and ecological zones and increases risks from fire, pests and diseases....
...Eisler left Goldman in 2012 and was chair of LetterOne’s investment and risk committee between 2015 and 2017. Goldman Sachs has worked with Pamplona repeatedly....
...“Burning primary biomass is definitely not the best way to use this biomass so it doesn’t make sense to subsidise [it],” said Pascal Canfin, a French MEP who heads the environment committee....
...Clara Aguilera, a socialist lawmaker on the European parliament’s agriculture committee, says it would “allow the EU to have better control on [fertiliser] costs — to the benefit of farmers”....
...“Investors are raising rents 50 per cent, issuing eviction notices and leaving toxic mould and pest infestations to grow worse, all in the name of their own bottom lines,” said committee chair Sherrod Brown...
...However, an import ban imposed by Beijing earlier this year, supposedly on the grounds that the previous crop contained pests, has left Taiwan’s farmers with an awful lot of pineapples on their hands....
...She then posed a rhetorical question about how many pests, problems or non-compliant goods had been identified in these checks? “None!” she replied....
...A small family company selling pest control supplies, called Pestfix, received a deal worth £350m after being put on that list due to an “error”, the report disclosed....
...In one case, PestFix, a pest control supplies company in Littlehampton, Sussex, was “added to the high-priority lane in error without a referral”, the NAO said....
...The Congress’s standing committee will then submit the proposals to the annual assembly of the legislature in March....
...And it’s easy to buy more of,” he told a congressional committee....
...The new law, which was first reviewed by the NPC’s Standing Committee in December, formally bans “forced” technology transfers and other illegal interference by government officials in the operations of...
...“I remember a very senior woman [at RBS] being very upset one day telling me that she was expected to sleep with her boss,” Ms Gadhia told a parliamentary committee last year....
...Two Labour MPs, Ivan Lewis and Kelvin Hopkins, have also been referred to their own party’s internal disciplinary committee following allegations of sexual harassment....
...full of great ideas that might one day help classify the company as a tech start-up: to solve its rat problem, for example, Zhang recently suggested bringing in artificial intelligence to help keep the pests...
...She was inspired to write to Mr Thiam in the light of the #MeToo social media campaign that gained momentum after the exposure of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein as a decades-long sex pest....
...(FT) When 26,000 stinkbugs invade your home The stinkbug has made its way to 43 of 48 continental US states — and on to the shortlist of the nation’s worst agricultural pests....
...I believe it was about seven or nine people from my student committee and they were awesome....
...Pippa Greenwood: Any pests? Hester: Investors moaned because they said my turnround wasn’t working. Greenwood: You know how to deal with them, don’t you?...
...Britain should carry out a field trial of genetically modified insects, which could be a weapon against some infectious diseases and agricultural pests, the House of Lords science committee has recommended...
...In the order the government said it would establish an “expert committee” to set the price levels....
...“Approaches like ours can reduce pest numbers to much lower levels.”...
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