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(published in: Sep, 2011)
The livestock industry in the Forlì-Cesena Province produces over 300 million euros of output in value terms. Production areas (poultry, eggs, cattle and pigs) are organizing themselves into strongly integrated systems in order to reduce market risks and capture greater product ranges of value added. To complete the process of integration and specialization with targeted market positioning, it is also necessary to specialize the feed component. This component has an estimated value of approximately 150 million euros per year, using mainly imported raw materials.
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(published in: Sep, 2011)
Food production and agriculture play an important role in Montenegro's economy, with the primary sector alone providing (source: Eurostat) more than 10% of total GDP (GDP (EUR 2.95 Billion in 2009), compared to 2% in the EU27, together with processing industry shares around 20% of GDP, and 4.9% of total exports. Surveys reveal an agricultural labor force of 11,902, while official estimates point to a total of around 55,000 rural households in Montenegro.
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(published in: Jul, 2011)
Since the last century, some of the worst plant diseases and parasites were defeated by new kinds of herbicides and pesticides. This led to the long awaited food security in the countries of western Europe and an improved productivity of cultivated land in Eastern Europe. As for today, in the region considered, the chemical agents in agriculture are not only a key trait of present day farming, but....
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(published in: May, 2011)
Food security and food safety are two concepts, both taken into growing consideration by all governments of the world, especially in sight of rising food prices and increasingly unpredictable weather events. Eastern Europe is facing some essential challenges....
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(published in: Apr, 2011)
Food security and productivity of land are two of the main items which nowadays draw the attention to the agricultural world sector. The need to enlarge the quantity and frequency of every kind of harvest, has led to the employment of....
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(published in: Mar, 2011)
From the Soviet period the Russian Federation inherited a rigid industrial structure on which it has built its present-day productive system with substantial continuity. The difficulties faced by Moscow in diversifying the national economy are damaging....
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(published in: Feb, 2011)
In the sixty years since starting its nuclear program, Russia has developed a substantial experience in the civil nuclear field that will be used to enter forign markets in the next years. The strength of the export strategy....