Sentences with phrase «commercial food exports»

Last year, when U.S. commercial food exports were the largest in history, only 3.3 million tons were made available for aid.

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In 2016, 1.34 million kangaroos were killed for the commercial industry.2 Some skins and meat products are used domestically (a proportion of kangaroo meat goes into the Australian pet food market), and the rest is exported to other countries (two thirds to Europe) as leather or meat for human consumption.3 Kangaroo leather is widely used in the manufacture of sporting shoes and gloves as well as in dress shoes and accessory manufacture.

Due to scientific and public fears about food safety and concern about export markets, China has decided not to grow GM food crops on a commercial scale, even though China is the world's biggest producer of GM cotton.

Abstract: Diverse and abundant, marine invertebrates have essential roles in ocean ecosystems and provide vital food and export resources for millions of people around the world through small - scale artisanal to large - scale commercial fisheries.

The Lundehund was a valuable working animal, essential in hunting puffin birds along the Norwegian coast for food as well as the commercial export of puffin down from the Viking Age through the 16th and 17th centuries.

Value Added Tax (VAT), popularly known as commercial tax is not chargeable on the commodities, which are zero rated for food and necessary drugs or those falling under exports.