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• For chocolate lovers: more kinds of cacao
Department of Agriculture's National Germplasm Repository and lead scientist of cocoa genetics at Mars, Inc. "We can see the origins of the 10 genetic groups very clearly." While the suggestion that cacao originated in South America has been made ...
• Drought has Aussie farmers trading water
In the world's driest inhabited continent, there is simply not enough water to go around, and households, cities, industries and agriculture all demand their share from stressed reservoirs and rivers. So Australia's irrigation planting sector relies ...
• Haiti raises storm death toll to nearly 800
The four tropical storms that struck in late August and early September also wiped out at least 60 percent of Haitian agriculture and destroyed roads, bridges and homes. The government had previously said 425 people died in the storms, which left ...
• Frozen chicken linked to salmonella in 12 states
WASHINGTON - The government is urging consumers to thoroughly cook frozen chicken dinners after 32 people in 12 states were sickened with salmonella poisoning. The health warning by the U.S. Department of Agriculture cited frozen dishes in which the ...
• Financial industry may face new rules next year
Meanwhile, the House Agriculture Committee, which has some oversight of commodities and futures trading, plans to hold a hearing this month on a class of derivatives known as credit default swaps. AIG held huge amounts of credit default swaps, which ...