Policymakers have hailed Bt cotton as a success story but a January 9 internal advisory, a copy of which is with HT, sent out to cotton - growing states
by the agriculture ministry presents a grim scenario.
Not exact matches
Some 18,000 poor families in the worst - hit north have lost their food crops, according to preliminary damage assessments
by Haiti's
agriculture ministry.
The focus on infrastructure,
agriculture and solid minerals,
by the Buhari administration, would appear obvious
by the manning of the two other
ministries.
Other assigned
ministries include, Ministry of
Agriculture and Natural Resources
by Barr Oyewole Oyewumi.
Some of the
ministries visited
by the governor were Ministry of Health, State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Graphic Newspaper, Radio Kogi, State Secretariat's, Ministry of Education and
Agriculture among others.
Addressing the media on some interventions made
by the
ministry of
agriculture, Deputy sector Minister, Dr. Hannah Bissiw stated that the
ministry will do all it can to ensure it contains the situation.
Nicholas Soames, the junior
agriculture minister, tells me that the Fraddam case, reported to the local
ministry office on 8 June, was immediately investigated
by a wildlife biologist from the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service.
Contingency plans to fight rabies are based on a model developed for the
Ministry of
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in 1991
by Stephen Harris, also based at the University of Bristol, and Graham Smith, a
ministry scientist.
The decision
by Henk Bleker, minister for
agriculture and foreign trade, was announced this afternoon in a press release (Dutch) posted on the
ministry's Web site.
The Permanent Secretary, Niger State
Ministry of
Agriculture, Malam Yusuf Bako Kagara, who was represented
by a director in the
ministry, Alhaji Abba Aliyu, commended the collaboration
by ATASP and Africa Rice towards boosting food security and reduce unemployment across the state.
Times News Network: The National Green Tribunalhas directed the
agriculture ministry to hold a meeting with Punjab, Haryana, UP and Delhi to prepare «composite» guidelines to prevent pollution caused
by straw burning.
(11/08/2007) Officials from the Indonesian
ministry of
agriculture and the palm oil industry are distributing materials that misrepresent the carbon balance oil palm plantations, according to accounts from people who have seen presentations
by members of the Indonesian Palm Oil Commission.
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).