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Pomegreat, which claims to be the UK's leading pomegranate juice company, has entered a deal worth £3m to purchase pomegranate concentrate and fresh fruit from Afghanistan http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/080310/afghanistan___us_million_food_deal_with_uk_.aspx foodbizdaily.com Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Sixty Arkansas National Guard soldiers and airman are in the last stages of training to help improve farming practices in Afghanistan http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/260110/afghanistan___national_guard_helping_farmers_.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced up to $20 million for capacity building efforts within Afghanistan's Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL), the department responsible for managing that country's agricultural economy http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/160110/afghanistan____million_from_usda_.aspx usda.com Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Trying to erradicate poppies in Afghanistan and cocoa in Colombia is like pushing a snowball up hill http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/160110/afghanistan___when_you_consider_that_the_us_consume__of_the_worlds_drugs_.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Instead of hand-tossing the wheat seed, Afghan farmer Wali Sauder took the Hoosiers' advice and used a hand-held spreader http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/060110/afghanistan___nation_guard_helping_small_farmers_with_seed_planting.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Reporting from Naray, Afghanistan - Army Spc. Kathy Tanson, who grew up on a farm in Corning in Northern California, is wrestling goats and sheep into submission so they can be vaccinated against parasites and anthrax http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/241209/afghanistan___small_farmers_get_a_little_support_from_unusual_quarter_.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT The U.S. Marines were tense looking for bombs buried near a mud compound in this remote farming town in southern Afghanistan. Their new Afghan police colleagues were little help... http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/181209/us_troops_go_to_the_aid_of_small_farmers.aspx Google news Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT The U.S. Marines were tense looking for bombs buried near a mud compound in this remote farming town in southern Afghanistan. Their new Afghan police colleagues were little help, joking around and sucking on lollipops meant for local kids. The government had sent the new group of 13 police to live and train the Marines just a few days earlier. Most were illiterate young farmers with no formal training who had been plucked off the streets only weeks before. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/151209/afghanistan___marines_helping_small_farmers.aspx Google news Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT About 60 S.C. National Guard soldiers have left for Afghanistan to help local farmers grow bigger crops and raise healthier livestock. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/201109/afghanistan___national_guard_helping_farmers.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Afghanistan's agriculture sector has suffered badly during 30 years of war, driving many farmers to grow opium, a lucrative crop with which other products have not been able to compete. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/171109/afghanistan___poppies_still_main_cash_crop.aspx foodbizdaily.com Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Afghanistan's agriculture sector has suffered badly during 30 years of war, driving many farmers to grow opium, a lucrative crop with which other products have not been able to compete. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/181109/afghanistan___farmers_doing_it_tough.aspx Google news Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT If the United States really wants to stabilize Afghanistan, say six Afghans visiting Colorado farms, then it should focus more on building agricultural options beyond the illicit drug trade for the war-torn nation's mostly agrarian people. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/181109/afghanistan___building_up_farms_again.aspx Google news Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT In addition to locating and killing terrorists and establishing security in eastern Afghanistan, the 3rd Brigade Combat Team hope to offer the local citizens a way forward.But to achieve the humanitarian goal, the soldiers needed a little help, in the name of John Bartee, Montgomery http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/191109/afghanistan___us_army_helping_farmers.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Before a battalion of U.S. Marines swooped into this dusty farming community along the Helmand River in early July, almost every stall in the bazaar had been padlocked, as had the school and the health clinic. Thousands of residents had fled. Government officials and municipal services were nonexistent. Taliban fighters swaggered about with impunity, setting up checkpoints and seeding the roads with bombs. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/251009/afgahanistan___us_troops_help_farmers.aspx Google news Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT The veterinary authorities have reported to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) that a number of wild birds have been found dead from highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/221009/ivory_coast___bird_flu_strikes.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT The Australian and global Meat industry is in danger of being held to ransom by animal rights activists and vegetarians. So lets take a look at who these people really are and if their motives are perhaps more sinister than they appear. PETA are an extremly wealthy group of lobbyists and political activists and today one of the wealthiest corperations in the world, enjoying the benifts of tax excemption because of their charity status. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/041009/argentina___standing_up_to_animal_rights_and_greenies.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT About a dozen Bulgarian meat processing companies will have to pay back the subsidies they have received under the EU’s Sapard programme after the prosecution discovered absorption violations, State Fund Agriculture chief Kalina Ilieva told the Bulgarian Parliament's committee on agriculture on September 9 2009. She was tight-lipped on either names or amounts. At the end of http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/100909/bulgaria___meat_companies_must_pay_back_stolen_money.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT The Women’s Poultry Project in Afghanistan’s Panjshir province is a giant leap forward for the women who call the Panjshir River valley their home. The project is designed to empower women in the valley by assisting them in providing food and income for families. Greg Schlenz of the http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/280809/afghanistan___the_poultry_industry.aspx gulfnews.com Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT Egg prices have increased 10 per cent in the past fortnight, while chicken prices have gone up by over 30 per cent during the same period on hopes of rise in demand. Yesterday, the Namakkal zone of the National Egg Coordination Committee (NECC) raised the price of an egg to Rs 2.15 from Rs 2.09 during the weekend. Egg prices, which touched a record Rs 2.50 in June, had touched a low of Rs 1.94 a fortnight ago. The Broiler http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/270809/india___jump_in_egg_prices.aspx hindu.com Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT Poultry scientists in the University of Arkansas System’s Division of Agriculture recently taught poultry production basics to a National Guard agricultural development team headed http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/060809/afghanistan___poultry_production.aspx gulfnews.com Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT Afghanistan's only known pig has been released out of quarantine two months after he was locked away because of swine flu fears.The pig, a curiosity in Muslim Afghanistan where pork and pig products are illegal because they are considered irreligious, was quarantined because visitors to the zoo were worried it could spread the new H1N1 flu strain. "Our people did not http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/090709/afghanistan___swine_flu.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT Drought, conflict and lack of investment have caused a 20 percent fall in the export of products made from a silky lambskin known as karakul, and adversely affected the livelihoods of thousands, according to the Export Promotion Agency of Afghanistan (EPAA). http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/110609/afghanistan___problems_in_the_wool_industry.aspx . Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT