Washington, DC International aid organization Oxfam expressed concern in today s passing of the US-Peru Free Trade Agreement by the US House of Representatives, an agreement it says would do more harm than good for millions of Peruvians who live in poverty. Washington, DC International aid organization Oxfam expressed concern in today s passing of the US-Peru Free Trade Agreement by the US House of Representatives, an agreement it says would do more harm than good for millions of Peruvians...

Inside is the daily special, described as a torta, which is Spanish for "cake," but what weighs down the bag is an enormous sandwich that will be split among six of us. The new owners have expanded inventory to include Central American and South American products, such as Tona beer from Nicaragua, Quesos La Ricura cream from El Salvador, Tropical banana soda from Honduras, Tango cookies from Ecuador and dried corn from Peru. The new owners have expanded inventory to include Central...

Acreage dropped by about 22 percent in Texas, the national leader, and by nearly 20 percent in California, which ranks seventh in domestic production. Last month, the World Trade Organization ruled subsidies handed out to American cotton farmers broke international trade laws, opening the door for foreign countries to levy billions of dollars in penalties against the U. Monday, the Bush administration threatened to veto the multibillion-dollar farm package wholesale, saying the Senate bill...

But very little of the 2,500 acres farmed by family can be found around their Ashford home. And there s a lot more technology involved from the equipment used all the way to the seed that s planted. In 1995, Mickey Shelley and some other local farmers saw a need for a cotton gin since more cotton was being produced than the existing gins could handle. But he worries what a future in farming might mean for them the oldest is 13, and the youngest is only 5. Satellite technology helps in the...

A place where we can grow anything - rice and corn, cotton and cattle, yams, truck crops, crawfish and even Christmas trees - and twice as much of it as most places. Don't forget the good things we have here Sometimes it takes someone looking at us from the outside to make us realize what a wonderful place this is to be. He's come to Opelousas partly because of the growing prestige of our hospitals and other health care facilities, but partly because his wife simply fell in love with Opelousas.