John LaRose Jr. John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Gardening, Ag Asia / Pacific, Urban Farming, Tomato,

Chiayi farmer wins best tomato title - Taipei Times

A Chiayi County farmer bested 94 rivals to win the title of “Master Grower” at the Tainan District Agricultural Research and Extension Station’s 10th cherry tomato competition on Wednesday last week. Minsyong Township’s (民雄) Hsu Li-chen (徐立晨) won in a smaller competition than in previous years due to a harvest restricted by a relatively warm autumn. However, station director Yang Hung-ying (楊宏瑛) said that the participants in the general competition represented the best of their regions. They were all still able to produce quality harvests, achieving an average sugar level of 10.1 degrees Brix (°Bx), or 10.1g of sugar in 100g of fruit,

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Topics: Rice, Ag Asia / Pacific, World Hunger, Education, Weather,

First PH heat-tolerant rice up for release

The country’s first high temperature-tolerant rice varieties developed by the Department of Agriculture-Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA-PhilRice)

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Topics: Hemp,

Midwest Hemp Is Still Getting Its Footing, But Growers Aren’t Giving Up Yet

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Dr. Nimrod Israely on LinkedIn: #DearFarmer

It is not enough that you want to help someone. You also need to realize HOW. I wanted to help the Fruit growers 🥭🥑🍍of Africa to increase their income...

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TOPIC(S): Agriculture Global, World Hunger, Coronavirus/COVID, Food Security/Shortage,

12/31/2020 SOURCE: www.un.org

New year, new food systems | United Nations

The Food Systems Summit is becoming a reality, not just as a point in time in September 2021, but as a year-long global engagement process to bring solutions to realizing the Sustainable Development Goals. The Summit Community is now live -join the conversation and make your voice heard.

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John LaRose Jr. John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Research, World Hunger, World Population, Ag Middle East, Education,

Farmers urged to take help from agricultural research

LALAMUSA: Director Agriculture Extension Gujranwala Division Javed Iqbal Wednesday urged farmers to take help from modern agricultural research to increase agricultural production.He visited Gujrat...

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Topics: Agriculture Global, Economics, Ag Asia / Pacific, Ag Africa, World Population,

Factbox: China's agricultural progress in 2020

An unmanned harvester works in paddy fields in Hongwei farm, northeast China Heilongjiang Province, Oct. 15, 2020. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)The following facts and

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Topics: Agriculture US, Food/Nutrition, Sustainability,

Stress management for women in agriculture - Country Folks

by Troy Bishopp NYFarmNet Personal Consultant Brenda O’Brien cited a common occurrence among women involved in […]

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Topics: Wheat, Corn/Maize, Rice, Pesticides, Agriculture Global, Economics, Pest Control, Sweet Corn, World Population,

Biosecurity boost to stop top threat khapra beetle

The khapra beetle is one of the nation's most dangerous biosecurity threats.

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