The Chinese government has been trying to toughen product supervision amid mounting criticism -- at home and abroad -- that the quality of its drug, food and other products is poorly regulated. Columnists Alyce Faye Bragg. Sun Xianze, an official with the State Food and Drug Administration, called on his colleagues over the weekend to urgently step up food supervision, the official China Daily newspaper reported. In a seminar on Saturday, Sun said that future food safety accidents would...

As construction consortiums overpower the landscape of the city, urban farming or urban landscape management is emerging as a viable and practical tool to maintain the ecological balance of the expanse. According to cityfarmer.org, the most extensive online source on urban agriculture, this Caribbean island has what is believed to be the most extensive urban agriculture programme in Latin America, with more than 2,730 government-operated gardens. For these millions in urban areas, urban...

While the Ayars are establishing connections with their cows, the name of the game is still productivity, whether it be the amount of milk the cow produces, the productivity of its offspring or even the selling of its embryos. John is in the barn twice a day every day to milk the family's prized cows some of which have come from as far as California in a barn a few-hundred yards away from their home. But while the dairy farm named Land of Living after the original name John's parents gave...

Bio-Ethanol is a mix of ethanol, a highly flammable liquid which can be manufactured by fermenting a wide variety of agricultural produce, including forest residue, sugar cane, sugar beet or grain, and then mixed with normal petrol. This allows an optimum timing for engine ignition and has a fast flame speed in the cylinder, so the fuel burns faster, increasing the efficiency of the engine. Using such a high blended bio-ethanol fuel in specifically designed engine technology means that the...

Moving farmed salmon from freshwater lakes to land-based closed systems would reduce environmental pressures and increase Chile s competitiveness in the global salmon trade. Chile has become the world s second largest producer of farmed salmon but the industry must rapidly improve its environmental practices if it expects to survive in the global marketplace. In an effort to replicate salmon s natural lifecycle, the salmon industry has used Chile s freshwater lakes for the past 25 years to...