Sentences with phrase «in areas of agriculture»

If you are planning to start a career in the areas of agriculture or natural resource management, you should present skills and training suited for a specific position.

President Mahama said as a science and technology university, the KNUST needed to avail its expertise to other stakeholders to speed up growth and development especially in areas of agriculture, engineering and technology.

Captains of the Russian industry are also expected to call on the Vice President on the sidelines of the forum to seek investment opportunities in Ghana, especially in the areas of agriculture, mining, tourism and oil and gas.

Telly Valerie Onu of Beyond Capital Markets also sees a broad range of impact innovations coming via blockchain, including in the areas of agriculture, climate innovation, health and wellness and education.

Created in 1997 with support from the federal government and Alberta, AVAC Ltd. is a venture capital investor that provides investment funding for research and commercialization for Alberta - based companies in the areas of agriculture, renewable resources, and industrial technology.

The U.S. would probably like to harvest the services and industrial commitments that were made without having to give anything in the area of agriculture.

He noted that despite the apology of the PDP, Nigerians would still choose the ruling APC over any other political party for steadily steering the country on the path of economic diversification particularly in the area of agriculture.

In the area of agriculture, many Nigerians have gone back to farms.

«Here, we have been able to have a lot of facilities and our target is mostly existing famers who want more knowledge in the area of agriculture as well as youths who want to train in the area of agriculture and students of tertiary institutions.

I am happy that a lot of positive results are being recorded particularly in the area of agriculture and infrastructural development.

Not exact matches

«The footprint of industrial fishing in the ocean is over four times larger than the land area occupied by agriculture.»

As much as 56 % of the country was experiencing drought conditions as of mid-February, especially in the so - called Corn Belt area, a vast region that includes Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, eastern Nebraska, and eastern Kansas, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) home loan program provides financing to low - income homebuyers in rural areas.

Agriculture provides 20 percent of the jobs in the Fresno area, according to the Fresno County Farm Bureau.

The Department of Agriculture backs mortgages that require little or no money down to applicants willing to live in designated rural areas and whose incomes are 115 % or less of the median income in that area.

Some of the worst examples of failed agriculture investments were in managed investment schemes (MIS), which were tax - driven vehicles created in direct response to a federal government policy to promote investment in rural areas.

About Avrio Ventures Inc: Avrio Capital was established in 2006 to identify and invest in innovative food and agriculture companies that provide solutions to global challenges in the areas of health, wellness and sustainability.

The United States Department of Agriculture has a no - down - payment option for anyone who qualifies and who buys in certain rural (and some suburban) areas using USDA loans.

Lastly, Mr Prentice can promise to ask Agriculture Minister Verlyn Olson to terminate Mr Berger's contract because it violates Alberta's conflict of interest rules that require a one year cooling off period before a former government minister can work for the public service in an area in which he's had significant dealings.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) backs this loan in an effort to promote homeownership and economic development in less - dense areas.

It means that the United States Department of Agriculture backs the lender for properties in designated rural areas.

In the area of the economy, the Party will recognize agriculture as one of Alberta's most important industries and will work to strengthen the industry.

If you live in a rural area of the state, you may be eligible for a loan or grant from the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development.

First, we used the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural - Urban scale (also called Beale Codes), from 1, for counties in metropolitan areas with 1 million or more in population through 9, for counties where there is no community larger than 2,500 and the county is not adjacent to a metropolitan area.

If you're looking to buy in a rural area, Virginia is eligible for the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development (USDA) program.

«Public markets are a vital opportunity to create great jobs and have consequences of encouraging so many other businesses in the area of food transportation, food processing and development of regional agriculture, food and beverage economies,» Soglin said.

A critical one was the abuse of power when problems in economics, agriculture and other areas became intractable.

Across most of the region — in Sudan, Somalia, Niger, Senegal, Nigeria's Niger Delta area, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia — the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization in 2006 identified tension or outright violence over the use of water - rich land or water itself.

Perhaps that seems obvious; one need think only of the advances made in areas such as medicine and agriculture in the last century.

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their worIn those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their worin that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their worin the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

When NGOs face obstacles in creating effective nutrition and food security programs with in - kind food aid, they turn to monetization of the food aid as a way of generating funds for transportation and other logistical costs, and for development projects in agriculture, primary education and other key areas.

While the GATT was mandated to deal solely with trade in merchandise goods, the scope of its successor body, the WTO, was enlarged as a result of these talks to include four new areas: trade in agriculture, trade and investment in services, intellectual property fights and investment measures.

According to a study of the Food and Agriculture Organization about 700 million people in the rural areas of the poor countries live in absolute poverty and their lot is not improving.

Arguing against the motion is Charles Benbrook, a research professor at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University and program leader of Measure to Manage: Farm and Food Diagnostics for Sustainability and Health, and Margaret Mellon, a science policy consultant in the areas of antibiotics, genetic engineering and sustainable aAgriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University and program leader of Measure to Manage: Farm and Food Diagnostics for Sustainability and Health, and Margaret Mellon, a science policy consultant in the areas of antibiotics, genetic engineering and sustainable agricultureagriculture.

The Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney will be racking up the air miles this week as following on from a key Council of Ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday, Minister Coveney departs this morning (Tuesday) for a US trade mission centred in the Chicago area.

Like fellow Bay area start - up Geltor, Perfect Day is one of a new breed of companies in the «cellular agriculture» business — using genetically engineered yeasts that have been «programmed» to produce proteins or other ingredients found in plants or animals - on an industrial scale, without raising animals, and with less impact on the environment.

[The role of ecological agriculture in development of Croatian rural areas.]

Tourism just started to take off, and agriculture is blooming in this blessed climate, including a multitude of peperoncino varieties specific to this area.

Arguing against the motion was Charles Benbrook, a research professor at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University and program leader of Measure to Manage: Farm and Food Diagnostics for Sustainability and Health, and Margaret Mellon, a science policy consultant in the areas of antibiotics, genetic engineering and sustainable aAgriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University and program leader of Measure to Manage: Farm and Food Diagnostics for Sustainability and Health, and Margaret Mellon, a science policy consultant in the areas of antibiotics, genetic engineering and sustainable agricultureagriculture.

One of the greatest things about «the County», as it's fondly referred to by the locals, is the abundance of agriculture in the area — apple orchards, strawberry fields, vineyards, farmer's markets, cheese factories and other local artisans are everywhere you look.

Since agriculture consumes roughly 70 percent of the world's freshwater, water conservation is urgent and necessary in areas where water is becoming increasingly scarce.

While there have been several opportunities in the southern Queensland area to purchase large cotton properties there have only been very few major cotton property sales in the area including Orient Agriculture's purchase of farm Undabri for $ 30 million in 2014 and the famous Cubbie Station for $ 232 million in 2012.

Simultaneous mass mobilizations in different rice - growing areas in Mindanao are slated to call on the Department of Agriculture not to allow the commercialization of golden rice.

Clemens Food Group's new plant in Michigan was supported by The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD), which undertook research on pork producers in the state for three years to determine the feasibility of setting up a new processing plant in the area.

The Rainforest Alliance Certified ™ seal is awarded to farms that have met the environmental, social and economic standards of the Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN), a coalition of local conservation organizations that first set the standard for sustainable farming in rainforest areas in the early 1990s.

Even if 60 % of agriculture would convert to organic farming, concentrated feed were reduced by 50 % and food waste by 50 %, it would result in a food system with significantly decreased environmental impacts, including lower overall greenhouse gas emissions, and only a marginal increase in agricultural land area.

It was incredible to meet with other like - minded individuals and share the work we were doing in the area of food and agriculture.

the contribution of agriculture to regional centres and communities, including ways to boost investment and jobs growth in the sector and associated regional areas;

«In such conditions (decreasing area, yields under historical trends), the EU's total cereal production is expected to be below 300 million tonnes (t) for the second consecutive year,» said the Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission.

The course aims to assist the development of the required knowledge and skills about Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture through an intensive program of participatory knowledge sharing and empowerment of Rural Service Providers to further extend this knowledge in rural areas through implementation of micro-projects as part of their program output and in support of the NMA project objectives.