WASHINGTON - Mar 2/04 - SNS -- The United States and Morocco have come to terms over a free trade agreement, which will see U.S. import duties phased out over 15 years and Morocco replace duties with tariff-rate quotas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 4/04 - SNS -- Dairy product output in the United States slipped below month earlier levels during January, but managed to improve upon last year's numbers, according to the latest USDA data. . . . Continue or visitors click here

LANSING - Mar 4/04 - MFB -- Michigan's agriculture industry offered its two cents regarding a plan by the federal government to implement a country of origin labeling (COOL) program for meat and other perishable agricultural commodities. . . . Continue or visitors click here

FARGO - Mar 4/04 - SNS -- North Dakota's Agriculture Commissioner Roger Johnson expressed deep disappointment with proposed changes to the Conservation Security Program (CSP). . . . Continue or visitors click here

NAIROBI - Mar 10/04 - IRIN -- An assessment of the food security situation in drought-affected areas of Kenya has confirmed that households in the coastal districts as well as in the east and southwest continue to face shortages. . . . Continue or visitors click here

ROME - Mar 10/04 - SNS -- The United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization is appealing for U.S. $4 million in immediate aid for Haiti for use in restoring agricultural production and improving food security. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DAR ES SALAAM - Mar 11/04 - IRIN -- An estimated 3.5 million Tanzanians will need food aid before the end of May but improving rains and the impending harvest mean that in some parts of the country the food situation was improving, humanitarian workerssaid on Thursday. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NAIROBI - Mar 11/04 - IRIN -- Food insecurity in the pastoral areas of north and central Somalia has worsened in the last three weeks, as the harsh, dry Jilaal season (January-March) progresses, the EC- and USAID-funded Food Security Analysis Unit (FAO/FSAU) Somalia and the USAID-funded Famine Early Warning Network (FEWS-NET) Somalia, warned. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KIEV - Mar 11/04 - APK -- Agrarian Policy Ministry of Ukraine forecasts grain crop in Ukraine in the current year to be on the level of 32 to 35 million metric tons (MT), which is 58.4 to 73.2% more than the amount collected in 2003. This was declared by the Minister Viktor Slauta at the sitting of Cabinet on Wednesday. . . . Continue or visitors click here

BATTLE CREEK - Mar 12/04 - SNS -- Dietary fiber consumption in North America is too low, according to data from the U.S. government's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, with people in the United States aeatling just 30% of their daily needs. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 12/04 - SNS -- Licensed warehouses who have been storing agricultural products on farms have bee given until April 15 to move the commodities. . . . Continue or visitors click here

MONTREAL - Mar 15/04 - SNS -- CN Rail and the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union have reached a tentative three-year agreement. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 15/04 - SNS -- Efforts to integrate the Dominican Republic into the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) have been concluded, with the country assuming the same set of obligations and commitments as Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NAIROBI - Mar 16/04 - IRIN -- Sudan's representative in Washington has appealed to the US to normalize relations, lift sanctions and invest in the country. . . . Continue or visitors click here

CANBERRA - Mar 17/04 - SNS -- Contrary to what has been suggested by the American Farm Bureau, the free trade agreement between Australia and the United States (AUSFTA) will not change the way the Australian Government will continue to examine agricultural import requests from the United States. . . . Continue or visitors click here

CANBERRA - Mar 17/04 - SNS -- The weather outlook for the second quarter of the 2004 calendar year will be mixed, believes Australia's Bureau of Meteorology (ABM). . . . Continue or visitors click here

NAIROBI - Mar 17/04 - IRIN -- Disease is a major factor leading to malnutrition in southern Sudan, resulting from a hostile and underdeveloped environment where health services are poor and access to safe drinking water and hygiene is limited, according to a new study. Compounding this are inappropriate practices related to feeding, hygiene and health care. . . . Continue or visitors click here

JOHANNESBURG - Mar 17/04 - IRIN -- The World Food Programme (WFP) has purchased 100,000 metric tons (MT) of food from Zambia, following the country's remarkable turnaround in food production last year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 18/04 - SNS -- USDA plant breeders have developed new varieties of ornamental peppers they believe will attract considerable interest from home gardeners. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 18/04 - MFB -- Retail prices for food at the supermarket rose in the first quarter of 2004, according to the latest American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) marketbasket survey. The informal survey on the total cost of 16 basic grocery items showed an increase of $2.41 from the 2003 fourth quarter survey. . . . Continue or visitors click here

MONTREAL - Mar 19/04 - SNS -- The Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union ratified new three-year collective agreements with CN Rail, ending the strike which began February 20. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KIEV - Mar 19/04 - APK -- The government's priority for 2004 is organization and regulation of the agricultural market of Ukraine, and first of all, the sphere of commercial and intermediate sellings, Leonid Kuchma the President of Ukraine said in his annual massage to Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 19/04 - SNS -- The quantity of hops held by growers, dealers, and brewers on March 1 totaled 85.0 million pounds, 4% more than March 1, 2003, but 4% less than March 1, 2002, according to the USDA. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VIENNA - Mar 19/04 - SNS -- Austrian consumers remain vigorous opponents of biotechnology and genetically modified (GM) foods, a view supported by recent "unfortunate European experiences with food disasters," laments the U.S. agricultural attache here. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NAIROBI - Mar 22/04 - IRIN -- An estimated 184,000 people in northwestern Kenya's pastoral districts of Turkana and Marsabit face a precarious food situation following poor rainfall in some areas over the past two seasons, and an upsurge in conflict, areport said on Friday. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Mar 23/04 - SNS -- The state of Western Australia has declared that it will not allow the production of genetically modified (GM) food crops in order to protect the state's 'clean and green' status, says Premier Geoff Gallop. . . . Continue or visitors click here

LUANDA - Mar 23/04 - IRIN -- A serious funding shortfall means emergency food aid to almost 2 million hungry Angolans is in jeopardy, the acting head of the World Food Programme (WFP) has warned. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 23/04 - SNS -- The USDA announced a schedule of low-strength fiber discounts for 2004-crop Extra Long Staple (ELS) cotton. . . . Continue or visitors click here

ROME - Mar 23/04 - SNS -- The desert locust situation in northern Africa is now expected to reach serious levels this year, with a massive upsurge possible, warns the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Locust Group. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NAIROBI - Mar 24/04 - IRIN -- Normal rainfall from March to May across much of Rwanda is expected to support a good harvest for most crops, according to a food security update issued by the USAID-funded Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP). . . . Continue or visitors click here

KIEV - Mar 24/04 - APK -- Russia experienced an overall reduction in output of manufactured food items in February, according to data assembled by the State Statistic Committee of Russian Federation. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NAIROBI - Mar 25/04 - IRIN -- The food security situation in Eritrea remains bleak despite a partial improvement in agricultural production last year, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies reported on Wednesday. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Mar 29/04 - SNS -- Australia's believes expanded burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas is still more than can be handled by the earth's biosphere, with the result carbon dioxide levels in the global atmosphere are rising more quickly. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KABUL - Mar 29/04 - IRIN -- A new study on Afghanistan's agriculture policy and rural livelihoods has called on aid agencies and the government to more critically analyse how relevant programs work in developing the beleagured nation's agriculture and rural livelihoods. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 30/04 - SNS -- Moisture conditions remain mixed across the major crop production areas in the United States. . . . Continue or visitors click here

BATTLE CREEK - Mar 30/04 - SNS -- Recent surveys by a Kellogg Company subsidiary, Morningstar Farms, finds people are becoming bored by the limited options available under the "low carb" diets which have become enormously popular in North America the past couple of years. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Mar 31/04 - SNS -- Parts of Australis's state of Victoria experienced their driest quarter on record during the first three months of the current calendar year, reports the Bureau of Meteorology (ABM). . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 31/04 - SNS -- Producers in the United States expect to harvest 63.7 million acres of all hay in 2004, up 1% from last year, according to the USDA seeding intentions report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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ROME - Mar 31/04 - SNS -- Enough countries have ratified the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture to trigger the 90-day countdown to the Treaty's entry into force, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced today. . . . Continue or visitors click here

JOHANNESBURG - Mar 31/04 - IRIN -- The food security situation in Lesotho is "alarming", with low crop production causing a sharp increase in prices, says the UN Regional Inter-Agency Coordination Support Office (RIACSO). . . . Continue or visitors click here

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