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CST Latin America Tank Assembly Training

CST Storage’s Latin America team will be hosting a tank assembly training for CST customers and tank builders from Mexico and all of Latin America to be held on Tuesday, September 22nd and Wednesday, September 23rd . The tank assembly training will take place at CST Storage’s manufacturing facility located at 2101 S. 21st Street, Parsons, Kansas. There will be more than 40 ...

Sep. 18, 2015

By CST Industries Inc

CST Storage Expands Parsons Workforce

CST Storage today announced the launch of a new weekend shift at its manufacturing facility in Parsons with the addition of 20 new positions. “We’re excited about this expansion because the people of Parsons are helping us meet our growing customer needs,” said Brad Barkley, Vice President of Manufacturing at CST. “It’s the start of a new chapter in the story of a ...

Apr. 14, 2015

By CST Industries Inc

Statistical analysis can estimate crop performance

Scientists at Rothamsted Research, United Kingdom, in collaboration with the International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Syria have developed a method of accounting for spatial trend in single crop field trials. Spatial trend refers to the variations in crop yield and other characteristics observed when repeating this single crop field trial. Usually plant breeders ...

Dec. 23, 2010

By Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

Shincci 2020 strategic partner new product launch party

The press conference was hosted by Mr. Tan Jixiang from the Marketing Department. As a company inventing and applying airtight heat pump drying technology, Shincci has been using the first dehumidifying heat pump for 14 years since it started using it in 2006. From double-effect, triple-effect, four-effect to multi-effect heat recovery technology, Shincci has accumulated a lot of R&D and ...

Jul. 29, 2020

By Guangzhou Shincci Energy Equipment Co., Ltd.

Scientists search for solutions to Iraq`s salty farmland

The high level of salt threatening two-thirds of Iraq's irrigated farmland — as well as many other countries — is being targeted by a group of Iraqi and international researchers and policymakers. The Iraq Salinity Project aims to develop long-term strategies to manage salinity in central and southern Iraq. It is coordinated by the International Center for Agricultural Research in ...

May 23, 2012

By SciDev.Net

Barren middle east fights water shortfall

Seven Middle-Eastern countries have joined forces to share ideas about how farmers can get the most out of water resources in the region's driest areas. Launched in Jordan last week (1–4 February) at an international conference on food security and climate change, The Water and Livelihood Initiative (WLI) will involve rural communities in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Iraq and ...

Feb. 9, 2010

By SciDev.Net

Fight against wheat rust needs sustained investment

Developing countries need help with crop surveillance and the development of strains resistant to wheat rust, say agricultural research leaders. Today's food security situation is being worsened by strains of wheat rust disease that are emerging more frequently and spreading much faster and to new areas — changes fuelled by climate change and conducive environments in increasingly fragile ...

May 5, 2011

By SciDev.Net

Wheat rust diseases remain a constant but neglected threat

FAO is calling for countries in the global ‘wheat belt’ to step up monitoring and prevention for wheat rusts – fungal diseases that do especially well in particularly wet seasons. Yields could be affected across North Africa, the Middle East into West and South Asia, which account for more than 30 percent of global wheat output and nearly 40 percent of total land area dedicated ...

Jun. 13, 2013

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Major crop losses in Central America due to El Niño

Prolonged dry weather associated with the El Niño phenomenon has severely reduced this year’s cereal outputs in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, putting a large numbers of farmers in need of agricultural assistance as the subregion tries to recover amidst ongoing dryness, FAO said today. This is the second consecutive year that the region's main season cereal harvest ...

Sep. 14, 2015

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

New Chickpea Helps Turkish Farmers Adapt to Global Warming

ALEPPO, Syria, September 4, 2007 (ENS) - The chickpea, one of the plants with the highest amount of protein, is a staple of Turkish food - enjoyed as a dip called hummus, roasted as a snack food called leblebi, often thrown into a soup or tossed onto a salad. But Turkish farmers have been enduring a severe drought for several years, which has caused their crops to fail. Now a new chickpea ...

Sep. 5, 2007

By Environment News Service (ENS)

Egyptian invention cuts rice irrigation water by haf

Experts and stakeholders in Egypt warn of imminent water poverty as a result of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which is about to become operational. Meanwhile, agricultural production consumes about 85 per cent of the country’s water resources, half of which goes towards rice irrigation. Rice cultivation consumes more than 10 billion cubic meters of water annually, or more than one-sixth ...

Feb. 2, 2017

By SciDev.Net

From butter beans to pigeon peas: UN launches International Year of Pulses

Pulses, including all kinds of dried beans and peas, are a cheap, delicious and highly nutritious source of protein and vital micronutrients that can greatly benefit people’s health and livelihoods, particularly in developing countries -- that was the UN's message at the launch of the International Year of Pulses 2016 today. “Pulses are important food crops for the food security ...

Nov. 10, 2015

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Moving Up the Food Chain

For most of the time that human beings have walked the earth, we lived as hunter-gatherers. The share of the human diet that came from hunting versus gathering varied with geographic location, hunting skills, and the season of the year. During the northern hemisphere winter, for instance, when there was little food to gather, people there depended heavily on hunting for survival. Our long history ...

Dec. 2, 2013

By GLOBE SERIES

Worker loses toes in Waterville, Kansas, grain bin; incident due to safety violations

He walked into the grain storage bin on his own two feet, but he left in an ambulance. The 35-year-old had been working for the Beattie Farmers Union Cooperative for about a year when one day he became entangled in an auger that was inadvertently turned on while he was cleaning out the bin. At the hospital, doctors amputated all the toes on his left foot. The U.S. Department of Labor's ...

Feb. 24, 2015

By U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

A worldwide network of seed information is taking root

As an increasingly bloody civil war raged around them, a team of scientists in the Syrian capital Aleppo quietly packaged and shipped a series of nondescript cardboard boxes to an island not far from the North Pole. The boxes bore no sign of the conflict that had surrounded them or the precious material they contained. The scientists, from an International Centre for Agricultural Research in the ...

May 20, 2015

By SciDev.Net

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