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Safe and Sustainable use of Pesticides

Over the next two days, a delegation of over 50 crop protection industry and authority representatives together with farmers from various European countries gather in Sinaia, Romania, for a conference on the safe and sustainable use of pesticides.

12 Jun 2012

Knox Nursery Earns Veriflora Certification for its Sustainable Growing Practices

Knox Nursery, a top 100 young plant producer and finished annual grower, recently received Veriflora Certification for its sustainable growing practices. The 150 million young plants and 6 million 4-inch annuals the company produces each year are now Veriflora certified.

12 Jun 2012

New research offers roadmap towards sustainable pole-and-line-caught tuna

Research conducted at the University of York offers a blueprint for the long-term sustainability of tuna caught using the pole-and-line method.

14 May 2012

Siemens Energy Assists in Completion of Les Mées solar Farm in South France

Siemens Energy has declared the construction completion and commissioning of the Les Mées solar farm in the sub-division of Alpes-de- Haute-Provence located in the south of France.

20 Oct 2011

Ground Breaking of Solar Double Cropping Project in Pittsboro

Southern Energy Management (SEM), a company based at Morrisville, along with Piedmont Biofarm, Piedmont Biofuels, and Miraverse Power and Light has declared the ground breaking ceremony of a novel solar project known as ‘Solar Double Cropping’ project to be located in Pittsboro, North Carolina.

20 Oct 2011

SunLink Introduces Latest HomeRun Combiner Boxes

SunLink, a company that provides balance of systems products, has declared the introduction of its HomeRun combiner box range of products. The HomeRun products range is being showcased at the Solar Power International held in Dallas, TX.

19 Oct 2011

Dow Corning Chooses Bangkok Thai Electronic Chemical to Distribute Silicon-Solutions

Dow Corning, a globally known company for the manufacture of silicones and silicon-based technology, declared that it has chosen Bangkok Thai Electronic Chemical, a Bangkok, Thailand headquartered company, to distribute its silicone-based solutions to the solar industry for the production of solar PV modules in Thailand.

19 Oct 2011

Research Finds Proper, In time Rainfall Forecasts Improve Agricultural Yields

The outlook of the Sub-Saharan Africa, which entirely relies on the potential of its agricultural sector to feed its growing population, suffers an alarming level of starvation deaths as much as 30%, considered as the highest globally.

13 Sep 2011

Cloud Seeding: Reliable, Cost Effective or Unworthy of Scientific Attention?

It has been a long standing debated issue as to whether cloud seeding is reliable and a cost effective form of water management or just simply unworthy of any scientific attention.

20 Jul 2011

Experts Warn About Climate Change Implications on Agriculture

The position statement developed by over 10,000 members of Soil Science Society of America (SSSA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) and American Society of Agronomy (ASA) on the implications of climate change to the current practices of soil and land management and agriculture warns of large impacts.

18 Jun 2011