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...“[These analysts] see the potential that a laboratory worker inadvertently was infected while collecting unknown animal specimens to be less likely than an infection occurring through numerous hunters, farmers...
...For instance, it instructs the agriculture secretary to “reinforce” the view that it is illegal for large agricultural companies to give preference to one farmer over another, even if there is no industry-wide...
...Based on 200 interviews with selected companies from PepsiCo and Microsoft to less well-known names such as Bühler, a Swiss manufacturer of food processing equipment, and urban vegetable farmer Gotham Greens...
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...“The metaphor I use is the iron harvest, for Belgian and French farmers in the spring,” he said....
...Additional reporting by Kiran Stacey in Washington...
...Many farmers cannot even operate their machinery: modern irrigation systems, for example, use real-time weather data to calculate how much water to pump out....
...The move was welcomed by farmers and heavy industry....
...Republicans were trying to convince Iowa farmers that it was all about China. China was going to eat their lunch. And Democrats were trying to use concentration of power, big ads, Covid......
...In a speech on Tuesday, Mr Powell warned that businesses and farmers are becoming more concerned about trade tensions, resulting in a drop in business confidence....
...“It impacts farmers’ planting intentions if they don’t get paid on time,” she says....
...This would offer some relief to US farmers — and a crucial part of the president’s political base that has been harmed by retaliatory tariffs from Beijing....
...(FT) Mexico’s opium farmers under pressure Opium poppies once yielded bumper profits....
...But New Delhi’s complaints about European regulations are reminiscent of demands by US trade negotiators for the country’s farmers to have access to EU markets for food such as chlorine-rinsed chicken, which...
...Farmers in the region say getting electricity would enable them to run electric irrigation pumps at half the running cost of diesel-generated power....
...American farmers are frustrated that India charges 30-60 per cent duties on their milk products, while medical manufacturers have protested against price caps and high duties on coronary stents....
...Walmart said: “Walmart has been in India for many years and we have been contributing to the country’s economy through local skilled job creation, sourcing from small farmers, small and medium suppliers...
...Earlier this month, Arun Jaitley, the finance minister, attempted to mitigate some of the effects of the slowdown by announcing a Budget that included higher minimum prices for farmers and free health insurance...
...This winter, as smog engulfed New Delhi, the capital’s chief minister ended up in a Twitter argument with his counterpart in the nearby state of Punjab about how to stop farmers there burning rice stubble...
...Stand-off in Georgia governor fight Stacey Abrams, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Georgia, has refused to concede defeat....
...To discuss the issue and its broader context, I'm joined by the FT's South Asia correspondent, Kiran Stacey. Hello, Kiran. Hi. Let's start with the film first....
...Policymakers have also found it impossible to stop farmers in nearby states burning the straw left over at the end of harvesting season, the smoke from which is blown across Delhi every autumn....
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