NEW DELHI - Jul 7/04 - SNS -- India must put more effort into increasing yields and diversifying the range of crops grown in order to achieve more than 4% annual growth in agricultural output, according to the country's Economic Survey for 2003-04. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NAIROBI - Jul 7/04 - IRIN -- Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Tuesday appealed for food aid, saying many parts of his country were experiencing food shortages because of inadequate rainfall, his office said. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NEW DELHI - Jul 8/04 - SNS -- New agri-industry companies will receive major tax concessions under the budget presented to Parliament by the Finance Minister, Shri P. Chidambaram. . . . Continue or visitors click here

MEXICO CITY - Jul 9/04 - SNS -- The value of planting seeds imported by Mexico in 2003 rose sharply, advancing from U.S. $354 million to $442 million due to increased areas planted to vegetables that were destined for the export market, especially in the United States. . . . Continue or visitors click here

A table about USDA Crop Production Summary . . . Subscribers Only

A table about USDA Fruit & Nut Production Summary . . . Subscribers Only

NEW DELHI - Jul 13/04 - SNS -- Indian Railways transported 141.39 million metric tons (MT) of revenue earning freight during the first quarter of the current financial year ending June 2004 compared to 133.17 million MT of such traffic during the corresponding period of the previous year, representing an increase of 8.22 million MT. . . . Continue or visitors click here

MILWAUKEE - Jul 13/04 - SNS -- Agricultural tractors are one of the bright spots on the farm outlook sales outlook, with sales expected to increase in both Canada and the United States this year and in 2005, according to the semiannual "State of the AgIndustry" forecast of the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM). . . . Continue or visitors click here

NAIROBI - Jul 14/04 - IRIN -- Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki is appealing for US $76 million to fund emergency relief operations to help some 3.3 million people affected by drought, saying crop failure brought on by inadequate rainfall amounted to "a national disaster". . . . Continue or visitors click here

NAIROBI - Jul 20/04 - IRIN -- Recent rainfall and increased distribution of aid have improved the immediate humanitarian situation in the country, but additional pledges are still required to cover an 11% food shortfall in the June-December period, a famine alert network has reported. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jul 23/04 - SNS -- Inventories of sheep and lambs in the United States dropped 2% below year earlier levels in June, totalling 7.65 million head, according to the latest USDA numbers. . . . Continue or visitors click here

A table about U.S. Monthly Alfalfa Hay Grower Bids . . . Subscribers Only

KIEV - Jul 26/04 - APK -- In the first half year of 2004 Ukraine's food processing industry enterprises increase output of their main production items, a spokesman for Agrarian Policy Ministry has informed. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jul 27/04 - SNS -- USDA researchers have modelled a yew tree derivative which could be beneficial in fighting the spread of cancer. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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