Sentences with phrase «rural economy today»

The government announced a # 1 million boost to Britain's rural economy today, with the message «Britain is open for business».

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I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

The next Government must ensure the rural economy can meet the farming needs of tomorrow, today by embracing new technologies, aided by the UK's world - class agricultural biotechnology sector.

Responding with striking swiftness, their work mirrors the new realities of today's China, as manifested in the economy, the environment, cities and international relations, showing a strong awareness of the changing relations between town and country and the great rural exodus...