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China agriculture reporter at Reuters

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Cautious China approves GMO alfalfa import after decade-long wait reuters.com/markets/commodit…

Cautious China approves GMO alfalfa import after decade-long wait

China approved imports of eight genetically modified (GM) crops, permitting shipments of GM alfalfa for the first time after a decade-long wait, the country's agriculture ministry said on Friday.

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As war, drought hit global crops, Argentina gambles on GM wheat reuters.com/markets/commodit…

Insight: As war, drought hit global crops, Argentina gambles on GM wheat

In fields near Argentine farm town Pergamino, spiky green shoots of wheat stretch in neat rows to the horizon, a crop developers hope will boost yields of the grain thanks to a single gene borrowed...

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China oil demand may shrink first time since 2002 as COVID curbs bite reut.rs/3cZ4qa6
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Tom Polansek@tpolansek26 Apr 2022
Ukrainian farmers don bulletproof vests to plough frontline fields reuters.com/world/europe/ukr…

Ukrainian farmers don bulletproof vests to plough frontline fields

Ukrainian farmers in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia which borders the frontline of the military conflict with Russia are now wearing body armour to plough their fields.

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Tom Polansek@tpolansek23 Mar 2022
Farmers from Brazil to Kenya to the US are cutting back on #fertilizer use as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine raises prices for important crop nutrients. Some #farmers are also planting less land. @Reuters spoke to 34 people around the world for this story. reuters.com/business/sanctio…

Insight: As sanctions bite Russia, fertilizer shortage imperils world food supply

Sky-high fertilizer prices have farmers worldwide scaling back its use and reducing the amount of land they're planting, fallout from the Ukraine-Russia conflict that has some agricultural industry...

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Food crisis grows as spiralling prices spark export bans reuters.com/world/food-crisi…

Food crisis grows as spiralling prices spark export bans

A global food crisis sparked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine escalated on Wednesday as Indonesia tightened curbs on palm oil exports, adding to a growing list of key producing countries seeking to...

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China ag minister says winter wheat condition could be worst in history reut.rs/3ChbjLX
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Ozone harms East Asian crops, costing $63 bln a year, scientists say reuters.com/business/environ…

Ozone harms East Asian crops, costing $63 bln a year, scientists say

Fossil fuel emissions aren’t just driving climate change and worsening air quality, they’re also hurting crop yields enough to cause some $63 billion in annual losses in East Asia, scientists say.

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New bird flu has higher risk of spread to humans -animal health director reuters.com/markets/commodit…

New bird flu has higher risk of spread to humans -animal health director

A wave of bird flu in Asia and Europe has a greater risk of spreading to humans because of a high number of variants, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said.

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Emily Chow@emchowsy26 Jul 2021
“The sky has fallen.” Chinese farmers in Henan, famous for agriculture and especially pork production, see their livelihoods washed away after the province was struck by heavy rains, sparking the worst flash flooding in centuries. reuters.com/world/china/sky-…

'The sky has fallen': Chinese farmers see livelihoods washed away by floods

Chinese farmer Cheng wades through knee-deep water, pulling dead pigs behind him one-by-one by a rope tied around their ankles as he lines up the bloated carcasses for disposal.

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A video tribute from @Reuters to #DanishSiddique #RestInPower
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Soy, sugar traders fight for space in Latam's largest port; costs jump reut.rs/3lEhlhx
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China to crack down harder on fake African swine fever vaccines reut.rs/3em6AP8
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Amy Qin@amyyqin23 Feb 2021
Stunning photos: On Horseback Among the Kazakh Eagle Hunters and Herders of the Mongolian Altai nytimes.com/2021/02/22/trave…

On Horseback Among the Eagle Hunters and Herders of the Mongolian Altai (Published 2021)

Deep in the Altai Mountains, where Russia, China, Kazakhstan and Mongolia meet, Kazakh people have for centuries developed and nurtured a special bond with golden eagles.

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Huizhong Wu@huizhong_wu14 Feb 2021
Belatedly (though it's still the lunar new year holiday)- a powerful glimpse of this year's celebrations for the migrant workers who couldn't go home @TingshuW widerimage.reuters.com/story…

'I've let them down': Beijing's migrant workers miss family reunions on Lunar New Year by Tingshu...

In the past decade, Wang Yunxia, 30, spent her adult life largely on a factory floor in southern Guangdong, far away from her daughter in central China, and even farther away from her husband in...

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A couple of weeks after we reported on new #ASF strains in China, Chinese researchers have published a paper showing a new mutation in the virus | Article [AMP] | Reuters reuters.com/article/us-china…

Chinese researchers find natural mutation in African swine fever virus

Chinese scientists have found a natural mutation in the African swine fever virus they say could be less deadly than the strain that ravaged the world's largest pig herd in 2018 and 2019.

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David Kirton@DavidKirton_5 Feb 2021
WHO Wuhan team member Dominic Dwyer says the team has finished its site visits and is now working on its report, knowing it will get a lot of attention. But the work of cracking Covid-19 will take years, he told us. reuters.com/article/idUSL4N2…
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Exports empty Canada's canola bins, driving prices to near records reut.rs/39yWdF5

Exports empty Canada's canola bins, driving prices to near records

Canada, the world's biggest canola grower, is running short of the oilseed six months before the next harvest, with strong export demand driving prices to nearly 13-year highs last week.

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