ROME - Jun 2/04 - SNS -- Political leaders are not doing enough to promote the use of renewable energy sources such as biomass, solar and wind energy, argues the FAO's Gustavo Best, senior FAO energy coordinator in a presentation to the International Conference on Renewable Energies in Bonn this week. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NAIROBI - Jun 4/04 - IRIN -- The distribution of food and other relief items in drought-affected areas of Ethiopia has remained inadequate, and donors need to expedite food deliveries to avert shortages before the end this month, a famine-alert agency said on Thursday. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jun 7/04 - SNS -- The World Food Program (WFP) has issued an urgent appeal for international aid so it can expand its operations in both Sudan and Chad, where at least one million people have been driven from their homes and farms by the fighting in Darfur. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jun 9/04 - SNS -- The USDA has agreed to donate 10,000 metric tons (MT) of non-fat dry milk (NFDM), 44,000 MT of wheat and 13,500 MT of flour to Yemen. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jun 10/04 - SNS -- There was a 3% reduction in the area strung for the harvest of hops in 2004 for Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, according to the USDA's latest crop production estimates, which forecast area at 27,946 acres, 3% less than the 2003 crop of 28,669 acres, and 5% less than the 2002 crop of 29,309 acres. . . . Continue or visitors click here

TOKYO - Jun 11/04 - SNS -- The Japanese government has asked foreign embassies to comment on proposals to set maximum residue tolerances for the fungicide boscalid on imported agricultural products. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jun 18/04 - SNS -- The USDA will donate 10,500 metric tons (MT) of rice to Counterpart International (CPI), a private voluntary organization, for use in Senegal. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Jun 21/04 - SNS -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation is seeking offer of 21,130 metric tons of wheat for shipment as food aid to Pakistan. . . . Continue or visitors click here

TOKYO - Jun 22/04 - SNS -- Black vinegar is gaining in popularity in Japan as a health tonic when consumed daily in small quantities and now accounts for 20% of Japan's vinegar market. . . . Continue or visitors click here

GENEVA - Jun 28/04 - SNS -- The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) are showing some impatience with the pace at which the Codex Alimentarius Commission is conducting its work. . . . Continue or visitors click here

ROME - Jun 29/04 - SNS -- Enough countries have ratified the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture to allow it to become law, says the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). . . . Continue or visitors click here

A table about USDA 2004 Seeded Area Summary . . . Subscribers Only

WASHINGTON - Jun 30/04 - SNS -- Producers in the United States expect to harvest 61.6 million acres of all hay in 2004, 3% below 2003, according to today's USDA seeded area estimates. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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