Protective nature of trees Workshop to show how to make windbreaks By Sun Kang Pacific Sunday News sakang@guampdn.com Be they breadfruit, calamansi or mango, Robert Barber of the University of Guam's Cooperative Extension Service has found that fruit trees are all the rage. Protective nature of trees Workshop to show how to make windbreaks By Sun Kang Pacific Sunday News sakang@guampdn.com Be they breadfruit, calamansi or mango, Robert Barber of the University of Guam's Cooperative...

Department of Agriculture, said it's possible the new restrictions could require so-called phytosanitary certificates for products that previously did not require such documentation. Canada "is implementing these measures to protect the competitiveness and access to foreign markets of Canadian fruits, vegetables and horticultural products," said Chuck Strahl, Canadian minister of agriculture, in a news release. The department does not know how many shippers might be affected however, many...

July 03, 200711:24 IST The country's fruits and vegetables retail segment has caught up the fancy of international companies even as domestic companies such as Bharti and the Tatas tie up with global firms for supply of farm produce. Engaged in contract farming, the company procures 300 tonnes of fruits daily from farmers. The $40-million company exports fruits such as logan, lychee, sweet tamarind, sweet mandarin and ginger to 15 countries. We are looking for a good local partner to...

Savvy farmers all over the country have discovered a practice that might not work as a nationwide agricultural policy, but that has allowed some economically inefficient orchards to thrive: Encourage yuppies and their progeny to come pick your fruit they'll pay handsomely for the privilege, buy more than they'd ordinarily consume, and then shell out for all sorts of other value-added products. Instead of paying workers to pick their fruit, they should try another strategy: making customers...

He expressed satisfaction with the training and said it was necessary to educate purchasing clerks so that they in turn could help pass on some of the results of extension work done at CRIG to the farmers. The training programme on the theme: "Enhancing Performance for better and Efficient Delivery," was to equip the purchasing clerks with skills to enable them offer efficient services at the various centres. However, he was unhappy with the dishonest behaviour on part of some purchasing...

This year it is considering a bill that will lavish tens of billions of dollars on the big farmers who grow the major commodities of our industrial farm complex. Tom Harkin, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, notes that the farm bill is really a food bill, but the food it promotes includes corn, which is used in the array of food products that have undermined the health and encouraged the obesity of the American people. Now that we have celebrated the 231st anniversary of our...