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California farmers will likely take 82,000 acres out of cultivation next year if the state receives an average amount of rain and snow this winter, according to a study commissioned by Western Growers, which represents the California and Arizona produce industries. Now, drought and water restrictions are exacting a high price on Allbright and other California farmers who must make tough decisions about what to plant or fallow, harvest or plow under, prune or chop down. California farmers...

The United Nations agency dedicated to eliminating rural poverty and hunger has announced that it is stepping up its financial backing to coastal fishing communities in southern India still struggling to rebuild after the Indian Ocean tsunami in December 2004. The United Nations agency dedicated to eliminating rural poverty and hunger has announced that it is stepping up its financial backing to coastal fishing communities in southern India still struggling to rebuild after the Indian...

A new technique for mass-producing sterile fish might one day be used to stop genetically modified fish breeding with each other or with their wild relatives, should they escape from fish farms. At the moment, the method used to produce sterile fish in large numbers is to subject fish eggs to extremely high pressures, which leaves them with three sets of chromosomes instead of two. Triploidy, as it is called, is the method adopted by US company Aquabounty, which wants to sell its...

South Africa has postponed an indefinite ban on commercial abalone fishing, due to start on Thursday and designed to protect stocks of the shellfish. The government has drastically reduced the total allowable abalone catch in the wild and attempted to encourage saltwater farming of the shellfish. Shipped to Asia as a seafood delicacy, abalone has become a prized commodity for South African entrepreneurs as well as criminals who have poached the mollusc close to extinction. The amount of...