India's farmers join cyber revolution in land records
In Karnataka state, India, the Bhoomi program digitized 20 million land deeds for 6.7 million farmers, enabling kiosks to print deeds for 15 rupees and banishing paper records. It aims to curb fraud, reduce bribes, and streamline ownership transfers nationwide.
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India
Srinivasan Associated Press
Bangalore
Chikka Arasappa
Karnataka
Arasappa
State Revenue Department
Bangalore South
Amaranth Seminar Set at Nu-World Dyersville Facility
Nu-World Amaranth invites growers to a two hour seminar on amaranth growing at its new Dyersville facility 612 Sixth Ave NW on September 17 at 1 p.m. For details call 1 877 692 8899 or visit nuworldfamily com. Nu-World Amaranth supplies amaranth snacks cereals and baking ingredients and is based in Naperville Illinois.
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Dyersville
Nu-World Amaranth
Sixth Ave
Nuworldfamily.com
Naperville, I
Farm tour and 4-H hall of fame notes from Iowa
Wapello tour showcases a farm producing and marketing nuts and pasture raised chickens with a complimentary lunch. Practical Farmers of Iowa sponsors the event at Red Fern Farm near Wapello. Marion reports Shirley Gugler of Mount Vernon inducted into the Iowa 4-H Hall of Fame at the State Fair on Aug 22. a partial list of fair winners includes Charolais Champion Fast Forward from Deer Creek Charolais Oxford and Junior Heifer Calf Reserve Champion Mary Kate Mardesen of Oxford.
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Wapello
Practical Farmers of Iowa
Tom Wahl
Kathy Dice
Red Fern Farm
T Ave
Redfern Farm
White House
Marion
Shirley Gugler
Mount Vernon
Gugler
Linn County
Washington
Deer Creek Charolais
Oxford
Iowa
Mary Kate Mardesen
Masumoto recalls ghosts of farmworkers in new Letters to the Valley
In DEL REY CALIF. AP David Mas Masamoto reflects on his 80 acres of peaches and grapes and the labor history that shaped his farming. His forthcoming Letters to the Valley, his sixth farming book, honors ancestors and memory while warning of a generation grown distant from the land.
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Masamoto
Masumoto
Lee Herrick
Fresno City College
U.S. agriculture exports set record at 62 billion in 2004
The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports fiscal 2004 exports at a record 62 billion, up 5.8 billion from last year, led by cotton, beef, and pork. Iowa leads in hog slaughter and swine head count, rising to the nation’s No. 2 agricultural exporting state. Exports to Asia expected to rise to 24.5 billion with China among top buyers. 2005 forecast at 57.5 billion.
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U.S
Gazette
Washington
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Iowa
Japan
Mexico
Asia
United States
China
USDA
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