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Agriculture in Paraguay

  • Paraguayan beef returns to some international markets

    PARAGUAY, 2012/12/22 Paraguay’s beef industry is showing signs of recovery following a recent outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. After exports fell by 48% in January compared with the same month in 2011, the country is expected to end the year as the world’s ninth-major exporter of red meat. Currently, the landlocked country is 19th. This position in the rankings reflects recent improvements but is still lower than Paraguay’s ranking in 2010, when it was ranked seventh and accounted for 3% of world beef consumption, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). But Paraguay lost its title as a “country free of foot-and-mouth disease, with a vaccination program,” from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) after the disease was confirmed in the department of San Pedro in September 2011.

  • Food Changes Family's Living After Paraguayan Rains

    PARAGUAY, 2012/09/08 Nueva Promesa, a community located in the Paraguayan Chaco, suffered the brunt of torrential rains in April and May. These rains destroyed the production of sesame - the economic mainstay of the community - and home gardens of sweet potato, cassava, pumpkin and beans. Today this community is in the process of being restored thanks to food assistance.

  • 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.
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