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Global tea production will plummet, latest report says warming is to blame
A latest research report released on the 10th by the UK charity Christian Aid points out that if global warming intensifies, tea plantations around the world will be severely impacted, and tea production may plummet over the coming decades; for example, the area of land in Kenya suitable for growing tea will within 30 years
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Latest palm oil spot quotes released: where will China's palm oil go from here?
At the start of 2020, bullish fundamentals shaped the palm oil market. At that time, global demand for palm oil was gradually rising, with consumption growing more than twice as fast as production. For the 2019/20 marketing year, palm oil consumption was expected to exceed production by 3.2 million tonnes, and this supply-demand gap could only be filled by reducing
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Latest Farming Techniques and Environmental Conditions for Freshwater Grouper
Freshwater grouper is rich in nutritional value and is a very special fish; it is not only economically valuable but also has ornamental value, and its farming scale is growing larger and larger, gradually becoming a new freshwater aquaculture species. Freshwater grouper is a tropical fish, generally growing in freshwater
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China's Soybean Revitalization Plan and Accelerated Dairy Industry Revitalization: 2019 New Policies on Agriculture, Rural Areas and Farmers
The policies on agriculture, rural areas and farmers are policies that many farmers pay attention to, and this year's policies on agriculture, rural areas and farmers have been officially released. So what important points does this policy contain? Let's take a look together below. In 2019, the "Several Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Adhering to the Priority Development of Agriculture and Rural Areas and Doing a Good Job in the Work of Agriculture, Rural Areas and Farmers
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African swine fever appears in Vietnam for the first time; how should the latest outbreak be prevented?
African swine fever has developed particularly severely in China, so screening at airports is also very strict, and the baggage of passengers at ports is also subject to very strict checks. But what about it? On the Vietnamese side, no news of African swine fever had been reported, so the screening of the baggage of tourists traveling from Vietnam was not subject to such high requirements. However, on February 15, a piece of pork from Vietnam was confirmed positive for African swine fever, the first case of African swine fever from Vietnam.
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2018 avian influenza cases drop by nearly 50%, strengthen prevention efforts
Now we have once again entered the peak period for avian influenza, so we need to strengthen our defenses in this regard. What exactly should be done? Let's take a look together. Ducks must be screened before slaughter, and prevention efforts are working. To contain the spread of avian influenza, the Council of Agriculture has since last year mandated that all ducks across Taiwan be comprehensively screened for the virus before being brought to market.
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Is Green Tea's Anti-Cancer Effect Real? Interpreting the Latest Research Findings
New Findings on Green Tea's Anti-Cancer Mechanism, Did You Know? Do you drink tea? Do you know whether green tea can really fight cancer? Let's find out together. Professor Thomas A. Gasiewicz and colleagues at the University of Rochester Medical Center found that green tea can fight cancer by affecting cancer-related proteins.
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National egg prices rise in latest quotes, 5% supply-demand gap expected to be filled by February at the earliest
Have you bought eggs recently? Have you noticed that egg prices have gone up? And what I'm about to tell you is that not only have prices risen, but export volumes are also insufficient. Let's take a look together. Currently, the price of eggs at the place of production has risen from 33.5 yuan per Taiwan catty to 36.5 yuan, while the wholesale
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Latest African Swine Fever Update: Pork Products Carried by Passengers at Taoyuan Airport Test Positive for African Swine Fever Again
A Chinese passenger illegally brought ham sausage from Nanjing, China, and it tested positive for the African swine fever virus. Is this true? The Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine said today (the 10th) that 2 more cases of African swine fever virus genes have been detected in Chinese pork products carried into the country by passengers at Taoyuan Airport. The Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine
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Latest news on African swine fever: carcass of a pot-bellied pig found in Taipei city today
The Taipei City Government already set up a "city-level inter-agency prevention and response task force" on the 4th. As the African swine fever epidemic has drawn intense public attention, the Animal Protection Office urged that people should not panic if they find a sick pig, and that once a pig owner is found to have arbitrarily dumped a carcass, they will instead be fined in accordance with the law, with the result being even more of a loss than a gain.
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