Sentences with phrase «by agriculture minister»

The announcement, made by Agriculture Minister, Marek Sawicki, sets yet another international standard against Monsanto's genetically modified creations.

The GoM, chaired by agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, even rejected a modified proposal of the department of land resources (in the ministry of rural development) to launch the mission with reduced area and cost (for biofuel plantation).

The ACCC told a Senate Inquiry yesterday that it disagrees with moves by Agriculture Minister, Barnaby Joyce, to allow competition law exemptions at grain ports.

MLA's China office is based in the capital city, Beijing and was officially opened in September 2014 by Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce.

Not exact matches

New country - of - origin food labelling laws agreed to by the Australian and New Zealand Food Regulation Ministerial Council are welcome news but don't go far enough, according to Agriculture Minister Kim Chance.

Early this month, a report commissioned by Quebec Agriculture Minister Pierre Paradis, who sought a review of how the federation regulates supply, found that Quebec's share of global supply has dropped by 10 % in a decade — even as demand and output rose.

Despite a recent announcement by the new agriculture minister, Norm Letnick, that he intends to take a step back and consult with British Columbians on Bill 24, the Liberal Minister for Core Review, Bill Bennett, has stated emphatically that the bill «is going to pass this sessionminister, Norm Letnick, that he intends to take a step back and consult with British Columbians on Bill 24, the Liberal Minister for Core Review, Bill Bennett, has stated emphatically that the bill «is going to pass this sessionMinister for Core Review, Bill Bennett, has stated emphatically that the bill «is going to pass this session.»

Canada's Agriculture Minister responded to the situation by threatening its own punitive duties on products such as ketchup and California wine, among 38 other commodities listed.

The public, and new Agriculture Minister David Littleproud, have been predictably angered by the recent footage brought to light by Animals Australia, shot by a whistleblower on the ship.

The state's agriculture and planning ministers on Wednesday announced the changes, triggered by the embarrassing stand - off last year between Murrindindi Shire Council and wagyu beef farmer David Blackmore, when the council in north - eastern Victoria refused to grant him a permit to continue his high - profile farming operation.

South Australian Agriculture Minister Leon Bignell injected $ 2.5 million in funds into the Beston dairy facilities on Wednesday and said he didn't think there would be any compromising of the state's «clean and green» premium food and wine image if it eventually pursued an underground nuclear waste facility in the desert lands in the north of the state, as recommended by a nuclear Royal Commission.

The Organic Federation of Canada is very supportive of today's announcement by Lawrence MacAulay, Minister of Agriculture and Agri - Food, that the federal government will be making an important contribution to the Canadian organic sector.

Amid the latest controversy surrounding shipments to the Middle East - ignited by video footage provided to 60 Minutes by Animals Australia which has an agenda to ban live exports - federal Labor took the opportunity to attack Barnaby Joyce on agricultural «bipartisanship» saying the former Agriculture Minister rejected it four years ago.

During 2014 - 16, he has been an active member of the High Level Committee set up by the government (NDA - II) to restructure the food management system in the country (known as Shanta Kumar Panel); member of the Task Force set up by the Prime Minister under NITI on Agriculture Sector Reforms; and also Chairing a Committee for Agri - Marketing Reforms in the country.

Speaking with DairyReporter.com, Juha Marttila, chairman, Central Union of Agricultural Producers and Forest Owners (MTK), backed calls to the EC by Petteri Orpo, Finnish Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, to provide compensation to dairy farmers impacted by the Russian export ban.

The event was attended by Shri Sudarshan Bhagat, Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Professor Swaminathan and leaders of the agriculture sectoAgriculture and Farmers Welfare, Professor Swaminathan and leaders of the agriculture sectoagriculture sector in India.

Speaking at the launch of the Irish Food Board's Bord Bia's Export Performance and Prospects 2017 - 2018 report, The Irish Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed TD, said the value of Irish food, drink and horticulture exports increased by 13 % in 2017, to reach $ 12.6 bn ($ 15.1 bn) for the first time.

Assistant Agriculture and Water Resources Minister Luke Hartsuyker — stepping in for Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce who is facing a by - election due to his citizenship disqualification — said National Agriculture Day was all about getting much - deserved recognition for the nation's $ 60 billion agricultAgriculture and Water Resources Minister Luke Hartsuyker — stepping in for Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce who is facing a by - election due to his citizenship disqualification — said National Agriculture Day was all about getting much - deserved recognition for the nation's $ 60 billion agricultAgriculture Day was all about getting much - deserved recognition for the nation's $ 60 billion agricultureagriculture sector.

Italy's agriculture minister hopes the experiment will be copied by other EU countries.

There has been a growing outcry over the lack of investment by super funds in the sector, particularly by Federal Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce, who has accused super funds of failing to understand the agricultural sector.

The product was unveiled by Irish Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed TD at a launch in the Hyundai Department Store Samseong - dong in the Gangnam - gu district, Seoul, during the Irish Trade Mission to South Korea and Japan.

March 6 2018 - DHAKA, BANGLADESH — H.E. Matia Chowdhury, Minister of Agriculture for Bangladesh today acknowledged the positive impact of biotech crops and their potential to help Bangladesh meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of zero hunger by 2030.

On Tuesday 31st May 2011 Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig announced the suspension of live cattle exports to the 11 Indonesian abattoirs investigated by ABC's Four Corners.

Changes to competition laws (milk wars discussion and recommendations relating to MMP (introduce effects test), predatory pricing (recommend Minister direct ACCC to investigate Coles for breach of s 46 relating to predatory pricing), unconscionable conduct (suggest it be defined), statutory duty of good faith, unfair contract terms (seeks «recognition of the competitive disadvantage faced by farmers» and extension of unfair contract terms protection to small business), collective bargaining (seeks relaxation of public interest test for boycott approvals in agriculture markets, increase «ability for peak bodies to commence and progress collective bargaining and boycott applications» on behalf of members - and further dairy specific recommendations, ACCC divestiture power (wants ACCC to have similar divestiture powers to Comp Commission in UK - «simpler process of divestiture», ACCC monitoring powers (wants Minister to direct ACCC to use price monitoring powers to «monitor prices, costs and profits relating to the supply of drinking milk») and mandatory code of conduct (wants mandatory code and «Ombudsman with teeth to ensure compliance»)-RRB-.

Yes, the Government has done the right thing by imposing a moratorium on live animal exports to Indonesia and I applaud it along with the Minister for Agriculture for doing so.

Kazakhstan has an «alarming» drought in grain - growing areas, Agriculture Minister Muslim Umiryayev was cited by the Kaztag news agency as saying last week.

Coincidentally, the term» incompetence» was used to describe the erstwhile Mahama - led administration during the 2016 campaign by the ruling New Patriotic Party in which the Agriculture Minister belongs.

Against a black - and - white spell - out in the 9th June, 2017 letter by Finance Minister, Ken Ofori - Atta, which ordered the Managing Director of the Agriculture Development Bank (ADB) to dole out some Ghc10.4 million to McDan, Mr. McKorley's claim that he has no supply contract with the Ghana Cocoa Board hangs out as the alternative fact.

It is for this reason that the Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Hon. Kofi Adda, MP; the Minister for Works and Housing, Hon. Atta Akyea, MP, and the Minister for Agriculture, Hon. Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, accompanied President Akufo - Addo on his visit to Burkina Faso to find lasting solutions, with their Burkinabe counterparts, to this phenomenon, by channeling the water spilled from the dam into productive ventures for the mutual benefit of the two countries.

The measure was agreed by EU agriculture ministers in 2013 and decrees that some larger farms must grow a variety of crops.

The Vice President on what the current administration has down with little resources available to it said, «Today, with less revenue, we have increased capital funding by 400 percent as the minister has said, in power, works and housing, in defence, transportation, agriculture.

The congress held by Sylva's faction, which was attended by the Minister of State for Agriculture, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri and other party members, elected the Chairman of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area, Jonathan Amos, as the chairman.

This was confirmed by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, at a stakeholders meeting with registrars and pro-Chancellors of the universities in Abuja on Tuesday.

For that reason, the President said, his delegation included the Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Mr Kofi Adda, the Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Samuel Atta Akyea, and the Minister of Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, so that with their Burkinabe counterparts, they could find a solution to that phenomenon by channelling the water spilled from the dam into productive ventures for the mutual benefit of the two countries.

The Wa Central MP, Rashid Pelpuo is unimpressed by attempts to commend the Akufo - Addo administration following the recent resignation of the immediate past Deputy Agriculture Minister, William Quaitoo.

The Minority's threat follows a complaint by its leader Haruna Iddrisu on Thursday that Prof Oquaye had limited him to just one question when the Minister of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) appeared before parliament.

He had said, «Today, with less revenue, we have increased capital funding by 400 percent as the minister has said, in power, works and housing, in defence, transportation, agriculture.

President Buhari, while thanking God for the good rains, the successful efforts of the Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbeh, an indigene of Benue State, whom he described as «a great asset in my government,» said his administration would continue to empower farmers with loans by the Central Bank of Nigeria.

Addressing State House correspondents, after Thursday's NEC meeting, Minister of Agriculture Chief Audu Ogbeh, who was joined by the Governor of Ebonyi David Umahi, Governor of Jigawa, Abubakar Badaru and the deputy governor of Lagos state, said the government can no longer continue to allow the ECOWAS Protocol that permits free movement of goods and services in respect of Cattles at the detriment of its citizenry.

Environment minister Phil Woolas held talks with the Agricultural Biotechnology Council last night, a group which encourages the use of biotechnology in agriculture and spearheaded by controversial company Monsanto, one of the main GM businesses.

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh has denied the reports by UN agencies of imminent famine in the country, saying that Nigeria is exporting food to other African countries.

Napaga Tia Sulemana was one of the strongest critics of ethnocentric comments by former Agriculture Minister William Quaitoo who was forced to resign.

The Committee, which is chaired by the Minister for Planning, Prof. Gyan Baffuor, has the Ministers for Trade and Industry; Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration; Finance; Food and Agriculture; Attorney General; Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation; Monitoring and Evaluation; Education; Health; Sanitation and Water Resources; Local Government and Rural Development; Gender, Children and Social Protection; Employment and Labour Relations; and Fisheries and Aquaculture as members.

The deputy minister of Food and Agriculture, Hon. George Oduro has addressed some concerns raised by the Greater Accra Poultry...

General News of Tuesday, 15 May 2018 Source: www.ghanaweb.com play videoEmmanuel Asante Krobea, Director of Crop Services, MoFA Contrary to claims made by the Agric Minister, Dr. Akoto Owusu Afriyie that government has eliminated fall armyworms which have plagued farmers since 2017, the Director of the Directorate of Crop Services at the Ministry for Food and Agriculture, Emmanuel Asante Krobea has conceded that the pests can not be exterminated in the long haul.

The deputy minister of Food and Agriculture, Hon. George Oduro has addressed some concerns raised by the Greater Accra Poultry farmers and assured them Government still have them at heart.

Contrary to claims made by the Agric Minister, Dr. Akoto Owusu Afriyie that government has eliminated fall armyworms which have plagued farmers since 2017, the Director of the Directorate of Crop Services at the Ministry for Food and Agriculture, Emmanuel Asante Krobea has conceded that the pests can not be exterminated in the long haul.

But at a different forum on Monday, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, lamented that Nigeria's economy had been destroyed by reckless and excessive importation.

However, the event was somewhat overshadowed by Brown's announcement that Elliot Morley, a former agriculture minister, had been suspended from the parliamentary Labour party over his contentious expenses claims.

Explaining the composition of the facility, the Minister of Food and Agriculture, Alhaji Limuna Muniru, said the facility will provide financial support to farmers for farming, and social support by the Agricultural Development Bank under the micro credit unit and pay back later.