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Wednesday 15 May 2013


Palestine

Palestine - Bluetongue arrives again

Four new Bluetongue outbreaks have been confirmed in the Tulkarim district of the West Bank region.

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Friday 26 April 2013


Palestine

Palestine - Poultry prices go through the roof

The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) authorised on Thursday (18 April) Palestinian traders to import live chicken from Israel after the price of a single kilogram of chicken passed 22 Shekels in the West Bank markets, representing an increase of 37.5 per cent from the normal price of chickens which were 16 Shekels per kilogram.

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Tuesday 08 May 2012


Palestine

Palestine - FMD problems

Following outbreaks of the SAT2 strain of the virus in Egypt and Libya in February, fears that it might jump to neighboring areas were confirmed on 19 April when sick animals were detected in Rafah, a town in the Gaza Strip bordering Egypt.

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Saturday 05 May 2012


Palestine

Palestine - FMD problems

Following outbreaks of the SAT2 strain of the virus in Egypt and Libya in February, fears that it might jump to neighboring areas were confirmed on 19 April when sick animals were detected in Rafah, a town in the Gaza Strip bordering Egypt.

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Sunday 29 April 2012


Palestine

Palestine - Bird flu strikes

The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) received an Immediate Notification yesterday, 19 April.

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Thursday 22 March 2012


Palestine

Palestine - Rise in poultry prices

The price of poultry may increase because cold weather and rain have damaged many farms.

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Friday 09 September 2011


Palestine

Palestine - The poultry industry

The Palestine Exchange has received reviewed interim condensed financial statements from Palestine Poultry (AZIZA), reports AME Info.

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Sunday 06 June 2010


Palestine

Palestine - Fishing in the Gaza

The United Nations' coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territories warned on Tuesday that farmers and fishermen in the Gaza Strip are facing collapse due to a near three-year Israeli blockade on imports and exports in the area. Philippe Lazzarini said in Jerusalem that six out of 10 households in the Gaza Strip suffer from an uncertain food supply.

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Thursday 20 May 2010


Palestine

Palestine - Farming in Gaza

That Thursday morning was odd weather in Gaza. Gaza is pretty arid. Thick cloud cover is unusual in late April, so is rain. The slate storm-front sliding over the horizon in Farraheen was even weirder. We were in Abasan Kabeera, on the farmland of the Tabash family. Peasant women picked the golden bunches of lentils from the ground swiftly underneath the quickly darkening sky, pulling neat bundles of stalks and beans from the earth with practiced motions, quick, smooth grabs, and leaving them on their side in the newly-bare dirt. Six women and two men cooperated to harvest the six dunums or so of lentils growing in that sector of the field, as we watched over them.

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Monday 08 March 2010


Palestine

Palestine - Trying to make farming pay

Trying to make a living as a farmer in Gaza these days is taking a toll on the family ties so integral to the Palestinian culture

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Sunday 17 January 2010


Palestine

Palestine - Farmers lose everything in Gaza

Three Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip were killed in an Israeli air raid on an area in central Gaza

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Wednesday 30 December 2009


Palestine

Palestine - Farming on the West Bank

As a means to counter the creeping expansion of illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, a permaculture farm might not seem like the obvious approach. But for Murad al Khofash, who runs Marda farm

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Saturday 26 December 2009


Palestine

Palestine - Farming ban on the Gaza

The Hamas authorities in the Gaza Strip decided on Monday to prevent farmers from planting lands that hit by Israeli missiles and bombs during last winter military offensive

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