World Crises . Reuters.com. INTERVIEW-Depleted soil threatens India's top wheat region Thu 31 May 2007 6:35 AM ET By Mayank Bhardwaj KARNAL, India, May 31 (Reuters) - Fast depleting soil nutrients and a declining water table are likely to take a toll on India's top two wheat producing states, a leading farm scientist said on Thursday. INTERVIEW-Depleted soil threatens India's top wheat region Thu 31 May 2007 6:35 AM ET By Mayank Bhardwaj KARNAL, India, May 31 (Reuters) - Fast depleting...

Officials of the agriculture office here said the program is a hands-on training starting from rice cropping to harvesting harvesting. Organizers of the training said farmer participants will come from Honrado and San Francisco. The selected participants will be taught on the latest rice production technologies which are environment friendly, cost effective and pro-life. He said the training is under the National Crop Protection through the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and (Kasaganahan...

The haste to destroy the world's economy is strange considering: 1) there has been no significant global warming for the past nine years; 2) most of our currant modest warming took place before 1940; and, 3) much of the scientific evidence gathered the last twenty years points directly to the sun as the source of our cyclical warmings and coolings over the last million years. The haste to destroy the world's economy is strange considering: 1) there has been no significant global warming...

Some 900 years later, a doctor at the shogun's court tried adding rice vinegar, a relatively recent creation, to trays of cooked rice and slabs of raw fish. This orgy of consumption has spawned an international network of suppliers who catch, raise, sell, buy, serve - and sometimes smuggle - fish. After a few months, the jars were opened, the fermented rice discarded and the pungent fish eaten. The fish should touch the tongue before the rice does and shouldn't be slathered with soy sauce...

The Food and Drug Administration, created as a domestic regulatory agency and charged with a wide portfolio of health-care responsibilities, is hard pressed, with its limited manpower and resources, to handle the consequences of globalization, which has caused the volume of regulated imports to double in just the past five years. While contaminated pet food ingredients and toothpaste from China have been in the headlines, they are a small part of an expanding flow of food, pharmaceuticals,...

The program will highlight agronomic and pest management research with cotton, soybean, corn and rice on Sharkey clay and silt loam soils, said Donnie Miller, research coordinator at the station. Topics for the tours include nitrogen fertilization timing in corn by Rick Mascagni, weed management in corn and rice by Bill Williams, weed management in soybean and cotton by Miller, soybean planting date research by Ernie Clawson, nematode and nitrogen management research by Gene Burris and...