Meldungen aus Europa – Page 4526
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Ken Crowther - HTA President
AS THE green shoots of Spring begin to appear, some of us are also turning our attention to the challenges and opportunities
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PIP expands staff training scheme
The EU-funded Pesticides Initiative Programme (PIP) has rolled out its field training workshops to some 10 ACP countries in recent months, following a successful pilot experience carried out in Senegal in 2006.
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EU targets empower farmers
Energy-farming is set to become a reality, in line with new proposals from the EU.
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Ethiopia receives horticultural boost
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has allocated 400,000 hectares of land for fruit, vegetable and horticulture producers in the country’s Rift Valley, Dire Dawa, Dedesa Valley and Tana Belese Corridors.
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FTA backs the Budget
The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has welcomed the Chancellor’s pledge to set fuel duty rates for threes years in his Budget statement.
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Revamp under way at Ghana's primary port
Ghana’s Tema Port is to undergo a major refurbishment in a bid to maximise the country’s export potential for a wide range of produce including mangoes, papayas, passionfruit, peppers, ginger and aubergines.
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Life reportedly very long
“Life is very long when you’re lonely,” sang Morrissey. Recent evidence, however, offers proof that he was wrong.
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ArticleScientists up antioxidants with salt
Scientists in Italy are investigating ways of growing tomatoes in diluted seawater, and suggest in a new scientific report that doing so raises the anti-oxidant quotient of the fruit.
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ArticleThe Greenery Day a success
Fruit and vegetable growers and traders from around the world met this month in Barendrecht, The Netherlands, for The Greenery Day - an annual conference and festive occasion organised by The Greenery.
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Duchy College burns miscanthus for fuel
Cornwall’s Duchy College is using its own private patch of Miscanthus to heat two of its teaching blocks.
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ArticleM&S label carbon
Marks & Spencer is to begin labelling food that has been imported to the UK by air in a bid to raise consumer awareness of food miles.
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NFU comes out to bat against Soil Framework Directive
The NFU is opposing the Soil Framework Directive, claiming it simply represents more costs and more red tape.
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Easy Guides sell out
Within a month of launch, the first print of the new HTA/RHS Easy Guides series has nearly sold out.
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RHS goes intergalactic
Space is the place for this year’s RHS flower shows, if early notice of exhibits is anything to go by.
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Lantra expands board
Lantra, the sector skills council, is looking to appoint three individuals to the Board of Trustees as non-Executive Directors.
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UK biofuels explode
The UK biofuels industry is set to explode with a £250m new ethanol production plant on Teesside.
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HTA gets funding for Environmental Management
Following a successful programme last year, the HTA has secured funding from Defra for another eight HTA members to implement Environmental Management Systems (EMS) within their business.
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Natiional Fruit collection facelift
Brogdale Farm, home to the National Fruit Collection, is to receive a £1 million facelift in a bid to enhance the site for visitors and existing businesses, underpinning the Collection’s long-term future in Faversham, Kent.
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Industry's big boys upstaged - report
A group of lean, fit and relatively small companies are taking on the fresh produce industry by upstaging some of the industry’s bigger names, according to new research.
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Powdery scab reduction musn't make growers forget Spongospora subterranean threat
The reduction of powdery scab brought about by two consecutive dry summers should not lead seed potato growers to forget that the pathogen Spongospora subterranean is still the most significant threat to their crops.