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Striving to increase forest coverage to 45% by 2020
In the afternoon of March 14, in Hanoi, the General Department of Forestry and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development held a press conference to introduce the…
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Japan uses agricultural land for renewable energy
Japan's Ministry of Agriculture-Forestry-Fisheries (MAFF) has just finalized a bill aimed at simplifying procedures for concentrating abandoned agricultural land to serv…
Environment
A quarter of the world is degenerating
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) yesterday affirmed that 25% of the world's land area is seriously degraded.
Environment
Japan discovered the first case of highly contaminated rice
The Ministry of Agriculture of Japan has just reported that the first case of contaminated rice was higher than that, since then it had to perform thorough analyzes befo…
Environment
Sunflower does not reduce radioactivity in soil
Japan 's Ministry of Agriculture - Forestry - Fisheries has published research results, tested radioactive decontamination measures in the soil in Fukushima Prefecture,…
Environment
Dairy farming contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions
Scientists working at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) have published the first detailed data on dairy farms that contribute to large-scale greenhouse gas emissio…
Environment
Protection of tropical forests: three main obstacles
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in 2005 the earth had only 4 billion hectares of forest, covering 31% of the area. About…
Environment
Find solutions to overcome prolonged floods in Central Vietnam
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Ministry of Land, Transport and Tourism Infrastructure in Japan in coordination with the Central provinces held a s…
Environment
FAO promotes reducing climate change impacts
On February 15, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) began a program to reduce climate change impacts of global agriculture with financial support…
Environment
Japan strengthens quarantine at the airport
On December 21, the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture-Forestry-Fisheries decided to strengthen animal quarantine work at its airports.
Environment
Drought spreads causing serious damage in China
The drought caused nearly 20% of the total area of winter wheat in China to be affected, more than 1.7 million people lacked drinking water.
Environment
China pollutes water sources because of 'chemical dependence'
To ensure sufficient food for a population of more than 1.3 billion people, China must strongly use chemical fertilizers to increase crop yields. And the consequence is…
Environment
Insects will be the future food supply?
Experts from the World Food and Agriculture Organization urged people to eat insects instead of steak or sausage.
Environment
Eating cotton seeds and growing rice underground
Food scarcity is the source of instability globally and in every country. People have applied many scientific advances to create new foods.
Environment
Africa has enough land to feed the world
The world population continues to increase day by day but the shortage of food production land is unlikely, because humanity still has billions of hectares of unexploite…