Of the town's total agricultural land area of 24,034 hectares, 61 percent is being utilized for corn production, only 28 percent for palay farming and 11 percent for high value crops. Corn has played, and will continue to play, an important role in sustaining our local economy as well as the country's corn industry," said Mayor Isidro Janita. Cotabato town's economy BANGA, South Cotabato -- Sights of young children on top of grazing carabaos and smells of burnt leaves would welcome...

When it's time to take the crops to market, the commodities are hauled over 120 miles of dirt roads and then another 241 miles on poorly paved roads to Imperatriz. Opheim farms near Graettinger, Iowa, where he raises 3,200 acres of corn, soybeans and popcorn. Throughout the winter months, he is a radio guest from time to time to talk about planting conditions, whether or not the rain has fallen, rust concerns, and finally how harvest is progressing near his farm in north central Brazil....

While Roxy has been released from the clinic and is back at home with her family, the dog still receives daily injections to ward off any unforeseen kidney problems. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, it wasn't just her record of prosecutions that led to her ouster but more whom she was prosecuting, and from which political party. And then to have an actual case in your office, from a professional standpoint, was pretty extraordinary," Kalthoff said, adding that he knew the situation was serious....

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After decades of this practice, it is to be expected that the seaweed seedstock in the country is losing much of its strength or viability because of continuous "cutting and planting" by the farmers. Like rice farmers, seaweed farmers set aside a bit of their harvest to use as seeds in the next cropping period. It is no secret among seaweed industry insiders that the biggest problem facing the industry is scarcity of good quality seedstock. Not to mess with the genetic make-up of seaweeds,...

They have attempted variously to portray the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Left Front as organisations of upper-caste elites whose interests, by implication, are distant from those of the socially oppressed, or West Bengal as a State where the plight of the Dalit and Adivasi masses, under globalisation and liberalisation, is no different from their plight elsewhere in the country. They have attempted variously to portray the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Left...