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Agriculture in Colombia

  • Producers from colombia eye Asia for agro exports

    COLOMBIA, 2013/06/21 A bid to target Asia as a destination for additional of Colombia’s agricultural goods could shore up efforts to diversify exports away from minerals. However, producers face a number of challenges, inclunding limited transport infrastructure, lengthy certification processes and domestic currency appreciation. Proexport, an agency promoting Colombian goods abroad, has identified specific agro-industrial products that it says could do well in targeted Asian markets, according to the local press. Its inventory includes coffee, aimed at China, Japan and Malaysia, and a range of fruits for Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam. The agency said price-added agro goods, such as processed vegetables, could as well generate interest. 
  • 林业在印度

    印度, 2011/01/02 林业 主要政府企业 印度 哪些面孔减少的森林盖子区域的挑战由于 人口过剩, 种田 并且环境因素。 历史 大约500,000方形的公里,大约17% 印度‘s陆地面积,被看待 森林地区 在90年代。 在FY 1987年,然而,实际森林盖子是640,000方形的公里。 然而,因为超过这土地的50%是 贫瘠 或bushland,区域在有生产力的森林之下少于350,000方形的公里实际上是或者大约国家的陆地面积的10%。 日益增长的人口的高要求为森林资源通过80年代继续了森林的破坏和退化,采取重的通行费在土壤。 估计6十亿吨 表土 年年丢失了。 然而,印度的0.6%年平均率 砍伐森林 1981年为农业和非lumbering土地利用在十年起点是一个最低在世界上和在同水准与 巴西.