VOA News
| May 1, 2013
A pilot project in Baltimore has turned one of the city's 17,000 vacant lots into a city farm producing piles of ultra-fresh vegetables for local restaurants. The city plans a big expansion of urban farming to reduce blight and provide much-needed...
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CCTV News
| Mar 22, 2013
The number of dead pigs found floating in Shanghai's Huangpo River is up to at least 10,000. Health officials say they've fished out most of the corpses and claim that the water is safe to drink. But state-run CCTV News found the town where most o...
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CCTV News
| Feb 26, 2013
China's farming industry is being threatened by a labor exodus as more and more people migrate from rural areas to major cities. State-run CCTV News reports that the Chinese government is trying to stop the flow by encouraging the growth of family...
VOA News
| Oct 26, 2012
Inspired by the popularity of US and UK reality home makeover shows, a TV producer in Kenya has created a hit farming reality program followed by 7 million viewers that's helping farmers in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania do a better job.
CNN
| Oct 2, 2012
Tech startup Farmigo is hoping to eliminate the middlemen between farmers and consumers, helping both in the process. Laurie Segall reports.
Earth Focus
| Apr 11, 2011
Mega dairies produce large amounts of milk at lower cost but there is a high price to pay - for people, cows and the environment. Large scale dairy farms in the US have expanded by more than 90% in the last ten years and they're putting small and ...
— Dec 24, 2011 at 05:25 pm
...and of diverting attention “after every progress made by the ANC Youth League and its leadership”. In an interview with the Sunday Times last mo...
— Sep 24, 2012 at 12:04 pm
...to raise the standard of living. Accessible The young leader, who is the third-generation of his family to lead North Korea since his grandfathe...
A farm is an area of land, or, for aquaculture, lake, river or sea, including various structures, devoted primarily to the practice of producing and managing food, fibres and, increasingly, fuel. It is the basic production facility in food production. Farms may be owned and operated by a single individual, family, community, corporation or a company. A farm can be a holding of any size from a fraction of a hectare to several thousand hectares.
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