Posts Tagged ‘agriculture’

China grain output fell by 30 million tonnes per year due to drought

August 31st, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
The drought has affected 26.7 million hectares of farmland and reduce grain production in China of 30 million tonnes per year, said on Sunday a senior official of the country’s agriculture.
Wei Chao’an, Vice Minister of Agriculture, ...

Japan: Norihiko Akagi appointed new Minister of Agriculture

August 3rd, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, will appoint Norihiko Akagi, a former vice-minister of the former Japan’s Defense Agency, to head the Ministry of Agriculture, to replace Toshikatsu Matsuoka, who committed died a few days ago, reported Friday...

Japan’s Environment Minister will assume the post of Minister of Agriculture Acting

July 28th, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
The Japanese government should appoint the Environment Minister Masatoshi Wakabayashi Minister of Agriculture Acting to replace Toshikatsu Matsuoka who committed suicide on Monday, reported the news agency Kyodo.
Matsuoka was found hanged Monday...

Attempted suicide of Japanese Minister of Agriculture

July 23rd, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
The Japanese Minister of Agriculture Toshikatsu Matsuoka tried to hang himself in Tokyo, but its current status is unknown, reported Monday the news agency Kyodo, quoting police sources.
Mr. Matsuoka was recently involved in a political funding ...

Suicidal Japanese Minister of Agriculture

July 23rd, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
The Japanese Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Toshikatsu Matsuoka died after suicide by hanging himself in a parliament building in central Tokyo, local media reported quoting police sources.
Matsuoka, 62, who belongs to the Liber...

New outbreak of bird flu in a village in central China

July 13th, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture has confirmed a new outbreak of avian influenza H5N1 in the village of Shijiping of Yiyang City in Hunan Province, which killed over 11 000 birds.
The Ministry of Agriculture and the Hunan provincial governmen...

China: priority is given to the development of modern agriculture

November 25th, 2009 | Tags: , , , ,
The development of modern agriculture is a priority in building the new socialist countryside, according to an important paper published Monday in Beijing by the Chinese central authorities.
China will intensify its efforts to provide the tradit...

China: implementation of ten action plans for developing agriculture

November 24th, 2009 | Tags: , , , ,
Xue Liang, an expert economist-General and spokesman of the Ministry of Agriculture, said that from 2007 the Ministry of Agriculture will? implement ten key action plans to develop agriculture modern.
We strive and achieve the following objectiv...

The three major improvements in Chinese agriculture

October 22nd, 2009 | Tags: , , , ,
To welcome the new year 2007, Chinese farmers have indicated to all, showing them the abundance of their crops, on the occasion of his accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) it is just 5 years, China has achieved in 2006 cereal production in ...

China launched the second national census of agriculture

October 20th, 2009 | Tags: , , , ,
China on Monday launched its second national census of agriculture, raising over 7 million enumerators.
The State Bureau of Statistics (NBS) revealed that the registration of 200 million households in over 30 000 municipalities would last a mont...