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Wageningen University Named World's Best Agricultural University for the Seventh Consecutive Time
The 2022 QS World University Rankings by Subject were released on April 6. This is the seventh consecutive time that Wageningen University & Research has been named the "world's best agricultural university." Among them, Wageningen's Environmental Sciences program ranked fifth on the list. This edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject assessed 51 subjects at 1,543 universities.
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South Africa's table grape sector faces a challenging record export season, exports to Russia plunge 21%
Recently, the South African Table Grape Industry (SATI) said this year could be the largest export season in the industry's history. However, affected by multiple factors including domestic and international logistics in South Africa, rising input costs and the Russia-Ukraine conflict, this season is also one of the most challenging production seasons for the industry.
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Sri Lanka on the Brink of Bankruptcy, Repaying Debt with Tea: Has the Organic Farming Revolution Worsened the Food Crisis?
Among the countries whose economies have been hit hard by the pandemic, Sri Lanka's situation is especially dire. Tourism revenue, a major source of foreign exchange, has plummeted, remittances from overseas workers have declined, and on top of an already severe debt crisis, Sri Lanka's risk of default has risen sharply this year. According to the World Travel and Tourism Council (W
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A new agricultural choice: turning waste into vermicompost organic fertilizer
Stepping into the Shiqule farm in Nantou County, hidden in the soil spread everywhere are countless earthworms capable of processing agricultural waste. Yang Zhikai, founder of Shiqule, carefully shovels the soil up from the bottom, then puts it back and turns it over, tending it with care and meticulously building an earthworm ecosystem.
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Yinchuan Sustainable Farm's organic rice growers cultivate agricultural talent through organic life camps
Organic rice growers take on the responsibility of nurturing agricultural talent! Yinchuan Sustainable Farm launches a land restoration revolution through organic life camps. Arriving in Fuli Township, Hualien, Taiwan, China, one is greeted by rice paddies everywhere, and this is Fuli rice, one of the "Three Treasures of Fuli" alongside shiitake mushrooms grown on logs and daylilies. Hualien has the largest organic cultivation area in all of Taiwan, about 2,800-plus hectares, and Yinchuan Sustainable Farm is the largest organic rice grower in all of Taiwan, cultivating 680 hectares of organic rice a year, but for Yinchuan, the connection to this land in Hualien is not merely planting rice in the fields, but taking root locally through "organic life camps."
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Greenhouse tunnel cultivation of Jade Girl cherry tomatoes doubles yields while saving labor
Young farmer Chen Mingxiong took over the family business eight years ago. Under the guidance of the farmers' association and the production and marketing group, he adopted the greenhouse tunnel cultivation method to grow Jade Girl tomatoes, which not only doubled the yield but also made harvesting easier. Inside the tunnel, clusters of plump, luscious Jade Girl tomatoes hang all over the trellis, while the unripe green cherry tomatoes dangle in midair.
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Smart agriculture upgraded again: AI light technology precisely analyzes crop conditions to help prevent disasters
The Tainan Research, Development and Evaluation Commission is promoting smart agriculture through the Smart City and Living Application Subsidy Program of the Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs, and is cooperating with Geosat Aerospace & Technology to use drones for crop spraying and disease image recognition, effectively reducing agricultural disaster losses. The Tainan Research, Development and Evaluation Commission and the Smart Development Center, through the Industrial Development Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs' Smart City
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Oriental Beauty tea wins UK 3-star award: Chang Chia-chi goes from pilot to champion tea maker
According to a Wealth Magazine report, Chang Chia-chi's business cards and tea bags feature a sailing ship with a teapot as its hull, printed with "Formo Cha TAIWAN 1869." Why 1869? "Because that was the year Taiwan tea first stepped onto the world stage." He gazes at the round label on the tea can reading "Great Test 2020" with two stars and smiles: "The 2021 label hasn't arrived yet. It took me 3 years to finish drawing this ship!"
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Pesticide levels exceed limits in Japanese strawberries and Chilean cherries
On the 15th, the Food and Drug Administration announced a list of 6 border inspection failures, among them a Canadian-imported energy bar, "POWER CRUNCH Whey Protein Crisp Lemon Meringue Pie Flavor," which was found to have excessive sweetener; 69.12 kg was intercepted at the border and destroyed.
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Only 20% of imported Japanese strawberries pass pesticide residue testing
The Consumers' Foundation sampled local and imported strawberries in January this year. Of the twelve strawberry samples tested, only the Korean strawberries had no pesticide residues detected; the remaining eleven strawberry samples were found to contain one to seventeen types of pesticide residues, and six of them did not meet the allowable agricultural residue limits, giving an overall failure rate of 50%. Broken down by place of origin, Japan's failure rate was even higher
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