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...We’ve calculated that about 70 per cent of the cost of food is actually energy, not just fertiliser, but transportation, running tractors, processing....
...Mr Hanson says AI systems are becoming good at understanding verbal communication as a result of natural language processing technologies....
...Therefore, and also as a result of global agrifood tensions, it will become increasingly common to see these giants investing in halal food companies....
...Innovo Speciality Foods, a joint venture between Indian entrepreneur V Raman Kumar and Saudi Prince Mishaal bin Abdullah bin Turki Al Saud, is investing Dh100m ($27m) in a storage, processing and packaging...
...A judge in Regina v....
...Another big Japanese trading group, Itochu, has been an active investor in China’s domestic food market. In 2008 it paid $710m for a 20 per cent stake in Ting Hsin, a big food processing group....
...Charles Cannon, chief executive of JBT, which makes food-processing machinery and airport equipment, says his company’s profits would be squeezed if the renminbi appreciated, potentially forcing him to search...
...Prices recovered somewhat and then bounced over 10 per cent on Monday after the company released quarterly earnings....
...It has achieved a critical mass, enabling it to survive despite having to import most of its fish from abroad....
...The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation, once ambivalent in the food versus fuel debate, now says biofuels contribute “to higher prices for agricultural commodities in general, and for the...
...And in India, there is more demand for more money, because of the increase in cost of living there,” says K.V....
...Punjab is also setting up two $8.8m fruit concentrate processing plants by late 2006....
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