Archive for December, 2005

Vegetables and fruits exports up 31.3%

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

Vegetables and fruits exports up 31.3% Vietnam’s total vegetables and fruits export turnover this year reaches nearly US $235 million, up 31.3% against last year, according to the Ministry of
UK: Consumer demand for organics is expected to double by 2010 This is particularly true when it comes to fresh staples such […]

Biologist turns Christmas trees into fish habitat

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

Biologist turns Christmas trees into fish habitat Gabe Gries, a fisheries biologist with the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, plans to drop dozens of recycled Christmas trees into lakes, where they'll
Christmas Trees are for the Birds Hundreds of thousand Christmas trees are purchased each holiday season, and the Florida Department of […]

Flowers and Frowns

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

Flowers and Frowns the law. Our frowns this week go to the Police headed by Maj Gen Kale Kayihura, and have a lot to do with the flowers. Last week
With song, flowers and poetry they grieved for their dead the shore, wavelets lapping at their feet. They carried flowers, some […]

Younger ethnic Hmong abandoning their agricultural traditions

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

Browned and Braised Chicken With Root Vegetables Remove chicken and vegetables to a warm platter; raise heat and cook liquid until it thickens and reduces a bit, just a few minutes.
Younger ethnic Hmong abandoning their agricultural traditions On Fridays, he and his wife often work into the night packing vegetables, […]

Trees pine for new life after holiday

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

Palestinian: Settlers uprooted 100 trees Police launch investigation into cutting of 100 olive trees in West Bank Palestinian village. Residents claim settlers were behind
Settlers, hands off the olive trees There were a number of media reports last month about Jewish settlers in the northern West Bank cutting down hundreds of Palestinian olives […]

Flowers adrift on tide symbolise lives lost to sea’s fury

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

Flowers adrift on tide symbolise lives lost to sea's fury A mourner on Patong Beach, Phuket … a service was held yesterday for the 23 Australians who died when the tsunami struck Thailand a year ago.
Remembering 'The Rose Man' of Pleasanton "Anybody that had a question or anything (about flowers), he […]

Beijing residents pay more for vegetables due to price hikes

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

Beijing residents pay more for vegetables due to price hikes Residents in China's capital have paid 74.1 percent more for 40 out of 54 varieties of vegetables this year as a result of price hikes due partly to declining
Greenhouse vegetables grew 10% expensive past week According to the information of "Agrooglyad: Vegetables […]

40 trees of joy

Monday, December 26th, 2005

Replacing trees is a tall order JH Hart crews work along Hunters Gate Drive in Troy. The city expects to remove another 6,000 trees in the next six weeks. See full image.
Settlers suspected of cutting down 120 Palestinian olive trees Some 120 olive trees were cut down Sunday from a field in […]