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Kashmir to Kanyakumari: Bullock Cart Rally Plan Against Farm Imports

DECCAN HERALD BANGALORE, Nov 4 (DHNS) -- The restructured National Farmers Coordination Committee has decided to take out a bullock cart rally from Kashmir to Kanyakumari starting from January second week as a protest against the import of agricultural produce.

Who Should Pay for the Costs of the StarLink Scandal?

The US is exporting a variety of genetically engineered corn that has not been approved for human consumption in the US. StarLink was grown in 1998 on about 10,000 acres in the US, some 250,000 acres in 1999, and more than 350,000 acres in 2000.

Food-Processing Policy: Processing American Farm Produce

From: Hindu Business Line, New Delhi/Chennai/Bangalore/Hyderabad / By Devinder Sharma As if the damage from the national agricultural policy is not enough, the government now plans to come out with another national policy -- for the food processing industry. And the next in the trilogy would obviously be a national policy for the biotechnology industry.

Us Corn Exporters Relieved At Starlink Export Okay

By Randy Fabi WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (Reuters) - U.S. grain exporters expressed relief on Friday after the government lifted export restrictions on shipments tainted with traces of an unapproved biotech corn, allowing shipments of previously banned corn to Latin America, Asia and Europe.

U.S. Trade Rep. Follows Farmers Union Urging for Wheat Dumping Investigation

For Immediate Release October 24, 2000 / Contact: Clarence White, Washington NFU Office, 202-314-3191, nfudccw@sso.org

Cairns Group Takes "Baby Steps" Toward Ending Global Subsidies

By Pro Farmer Editors / Mike Jubinville, Editor of Pro Farmer Canada

Update on Trojan Trade Reps, Golden Rice and the Search for Higher Ground: "Golden Goosed?"

October 12, 2000 Rural Advancement Foundation International

Canada Says WTO the Only Way on Food Talks

Reuters | by Patrick White QUEBEC CITY - Canada said yesterday that problems affecting agriculture could only be settled through the World Trade Organisation and that those negotiations could only succeed if developing countries were involved.

Worry Remains Whether Tacos Are Made Of Unapproved Biotech Grain

First It Was Kraft, Now Mission's Pulling Food From Shelves Company Will Now Use Only White Corn For Flour Mix WASHINGTON, Oct. 13, 2000

Patented Genes Like Bonded Labor?

Geneva, 4 Oct (Chakravarthi Raghavan) -- In a paper (Doc IP/C/W/209) submitted to the recent meeting of the Council for TRIPS, the United States has suggested that patenting of life forms does not amount to ownership but only preventing others from taking certain actions.

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