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SCIENCE / NEWS Wed Jun 18, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

BBC News -- Some of the first farmers in the Near East probably used green beads as amulets to protect themselves and their crops, a study suggests. The authors of the research suggest that early agriculturalists attached special importance to this colour. Bead.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Thu May 1, 2008 @ 8:22am neoform

BBC News -- Former UN head Kofi Annan has called for a "green revolution" to solve the food crisis threatening Africa. "A genuinely African green revolution could lead to a doubling or tripling of food production," he told the BBC. Africa needs direct, immediat.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Tue Oct 2, 2007 @ 1:45pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Chinese farmers cultivated rice along the eastern coast as far back as 7,700 years ago and used fire and flood control measures to manage their fields, researchers said, citing new evidence. In a letter published in Nature late last week, geographers i.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Mon Oct 1, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- The government will help farmers who are affected by bluetongue disease, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said. After praising farmers for their resilience, the prime minister said the government would be considering the financial impact of the outbreak.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Mon Sep 24, 2007 @ 8:26am neoform

BBC News -- British farmers are anxiously awaiting the results of tests which will show whether two different livestock diseases have spread. Government vets are trying to determine if the UK's first case of bluetongue disease, found in a cow in Suffolk, has passe.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Thu Sep 6, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

BBC News -- The government's failure to get EU subsidies to thousands of farmers on time has been called "a master-class in bad decision making" by MPs. Defra and its Rural Payments Agency failed in the "basic principles" of project implementation, the Commons Pub.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Tue Sep 4, 2007 @ 3:54pm neoform

BBC News -- The first domesticated pigs in Europe were introduced from the Middle East by Stone Age farmers, a new study shows. The international research project examined DNA in the jawbones or teeth of modern and 7,000-year-old pigs. The genetic investigation.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Thu Mar 29, 2007 @ 2:21pm neoform

BBC News -- Former Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett should be called to account over the "fiasco" of delayed EU payments to farmers, MPs have said. The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee called the handling of the new Single Payments Scheme an "em.. Read More