Mohamed Bin Saeed al-Atiya, executive director of Saudi agricultural company Iktifaa, has announced that his company aims to establish agricultural and animal projects in Sudan’s state of Sennar
and the Northern state.
Following meetings with officials in
Khartoum, Sennar, and Northern states, Al-Atiya stated that his company plans to grow
wheat, corn, and oilseeds as well as
investing in cattle fattening projects.
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Steve Sossaman, a farmer from Queen Creek, Arizona, USA is part of a growing global grain movement which seeks out and plants heirloom grain in a bid to restore nutrition, taste and quality to flour and its products.
The movement is the subject of a burgeoning feature documentary film called “The Grain Divide,” now in the making.
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Aarhus University of Denmark, together with the Danish Shellfish Centre, is looking into a new project that aims to establish whether starfish and mussels could be used as alternative sources of protein for laying hens and young pigs.
As part of the project, mussels and starfish fished from the Danish fjords are mixed in with the feed of six pigs being kept at Aarhus University’s research centre.
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| Common Starfish (Asterias rubens). (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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