Clatskanie family works together harvesting 450 acres of mint (The Daily News) Past the minefield-esque pitted roads and fields swarming with hundreds of goats, the Seeley Mint Farm in Clatskanie is easy to find. |
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Tidbits On Tea (BellaOnline) Tidbits and Fun Facts about Tea |
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AGRI-BIZ & COMMODITIES (The Hindu) EXPORTS & IMPORTS: Pusa 1121 rice exports allowed through 6 ports $1,200/t floor price fixed, trade resents ‘non-basmati’ tag. |
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Tea time — festival promotes tradition (The Register-Herald) Tea, tea everywhere — and myriad pots to drink.Dr. Hassan Amjad thinks of himself as the voice of one crying in a parched and thirsty desert in southern West Virginia. His goal is to introduce to that coffee- and soda-saturated wilderness at least one drop of knowledge about the health benefits of tea. |
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Time to Go Nuclear (Strategy Page) "Das Leben Wahlen -- Stop Kernenergie" the sticker reads in German. Choose Life. Stop Nuclear Energy. The sticker is an artifact from a visit to Germany in the early 1980s. |
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AGRI-BIZ & COMMODITIES (The Hindu) OILSEEDS & EDIBLE OIL: Health aspects of rice bran oil gain focus FMCGs look to it for nutrient labelling, undertake trial. New Delhi, Sept. 2 ITC Foods’ Bingo, Nestle’s instant noodles and Haldiram snack could soon become healthier. They are all believed to be undertaking trials with the ... |
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Tea exports to Iraq resume; volumes low (The Hindu) Coimbatore, Aug. 29 After a brief lull, tea exports to Iraq are reported to have resumed this week. Trade sources told Business Line that the volumes were not significant, but were expected to pick up in due course. |
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Kenya: LSK Should Remove the Log in Its Eye (AllAfrica.com) My Lords, allow me to submit that Kenya has entered the age of transparency and accountability. When the same thing happened to Russia several decades ago, the then president Mikhail Gorbachev said his country had entered the age of "Glasnost and Perestroika". |
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AGRI-BIZ & COMMODITIES (The Hindu) OUTLOOK: Gold may remain range-bound in the near term Gustav’s impact on crude oil watched closely. Chennai, Aug. 31 Gold has been zig-zagging in the $800-850 range in the last couple of weeks, after having recovered from a low of $777 an ounce. ... |
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Picture: Vladimir Putin 'shoots' tiger, dismisses EU leaders (Times Online) Vladimir Putin was dismissive of European leaders today who suggested that concrete action would be taken against Russia after its military action in Georgia – including suspension from the G8. |
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