High prices are not crimping demand; partly because prices of other commodities have been rising equally rapidly, limiting the scope for substitution, but more importantly because of China s hugely growing raw material needs, with all its demand indicators running at double-digit growth-rates. High prices are not crimping demand; partly because prices of other commodities have been rising equally rapidly, limiting the scope for substitution, but more importantly because of China s hugely...

Last year, Mexican companies bought $207 million in food and agricultural products from Washington, including $128 million in apples. Washington state will suffer," Gregoire said, adding that a shortage of workers last year forced apple growers to leave part of their crop on their trees. Washington governor visits Mexico to promote businesses, products. She said her state's agricultural industry would greatly benefit from an immigration reform bill. Congress' failure to approve an...

By combining genes that control different traits into one plant, the companies can produce more productive plants in a shorter time than they could have on their own. They could have discovered that the two companies had been researching the same genes responsible for trait formation -- after all, the companies have been working for years at discovering traits for producing bigger, stronger, and more productive plants. Instead, it appears that their libraries are quite different -- there...

The ministry said it would intensify nationwide monitoring of quality of farm products in production bases, wholesale markets, agricultural trading markets and supermarkets. However, malachite green, a synthetic dye used to treat fungal infections on fish eggs and which is considered dangerous for humans, was found in some aquiculture products, the ministry said. Just a few days before Tuesday's Dragon Boat Festival, a company in central Anhui Province was caught repackaging for sale more...

It may have been a coincidence, but several weeks earlier a number of local TV channels had carried stories about a robot-building competition involving Indonesian students, with the robots being designed to perform specific tasks, such as extinguishing fires, etc. It may have been a coincidence, but several weeks earlier a number of local TV channels had carried stories about a robot-building competition involving Indonesian students, with the robots being designed to perform specific...