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Fruit and vegetable growers would decide over the next three weeks whether to hold up a proposed fresh levy for the industry umbrella organization, Horticulture New Zealand that formed late last year.

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HOUSTON — Don’t get thrown out by the sweet taste: Children shouldn’t get more weight if they drink the right amount of fruit juice, according to a researcher in Texas said.

In the study, she said she is concern about how much fruit juice should actually be given to children because of its sweet taste. Nicklas, a child nutrition researcher, said more research is really needed to better understand of their diet, lifestyle and physical activity affect childhood obesity, the university said.

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OTTAWA – The increasing number of Canadians are getting really sick after eating bacteria-laden fresh produce, even though reported cases of food poisoning have though declined overall in the last 20 years, the Public Health Agency of Canada said on Wednesday.

Although more people are focused on the healthy eating today compared to the few decades ago, the rise of food borne illnesses actually linked to fresh produce highlights the fact some food producers and also distributors might not be doing sufficient to prevent bacterial contamination, said Dr. Paul Sockett, the director of the agency’s food borne, waterborne and other zoonotic infections division.

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Golden yellows, deep reds and the purples dot the landscape of Jim Buck’s Oakland City farm. Buck grows mums, pumpkins, gourds and corn on the property just off Ind. 57.

His mother, Mary Neyhouse, said she helps him with the flowers and good pumpkins while he harvests corn. She was watering the mums Wednesday afternoon.

Neyhouse said her son has been raising the fall staples for a few years.

Neyhouse said her son usually plants the mums right after his Memorial Day, but different mums bloom at different parts of the season.

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PESHAWAR: Sharp increase in the prices of daily using commodities, particularly edibles fruits, in the whole month of Ramazan has made life miserable for people in the NWFP metropolis, while the district government and the price control committees have kept a quiet over the whole situation.

The highest increase could be witnessed in the prices of beef and mutton, as butchers have been charge consumers far higher than the official price list, convincing the people to focus on the buying poultry. The prices of poultry, which were Rs. 100 per kg before Ramazan, have come down to Rs 70 per kg, but due to the high augment in its demands, it is feared that the prices of poultry may show an upward trend.

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HYDERABAD: The Consumer Rights Forum (CRF) has criticized the government functionaries for their breakdown to give break for the consumers during Ramazan despite the prime minister’s directives.

In a statement, the CRF said prices of things of daily use, vegetables and fruits continued to increase without any proper check by the Price Control Magistrates, who it said might not ensure implementation of even price lists, issued by the District Administration. It has called on the government to review its policy of conditional sale of sugar with other ripe items at the utility stores.

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WASHINGTON – Growers of fruits, vegetables, nuts and other nursery crops will surely gain a larger share of the U.S. farm plan under a bill unveiled by 50 U.S. representatives on Wednesday.

The so-called Eat Healthy America bill will now require federal nutrition programs to use more fruits and vegetables, offer block grants to enlarge domestic markets, expand research into “specialty” crops and also encourage land stewardship.

The bill is backed by four dozen specialty-crop groups, as well as the United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association and the Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance.

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Be ready to pay out more at the grocery store for your fruits and vegetables this fall.

A perfect gale has gathered in the Northwest to create higher costs for produce and higher prices for all of us.

Our booming economy is partially to blame for the higher prices you’ll pay out for apples, corn and other fresh produce this year.

Perhaps the largest element of that “perfect storm” is short of workers to pick our crops — a condition that might change the face of Washington produce forever.

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South Korea on Monday imposed an import ban on citrus and other fruit from California due to the fact of a noxious insect there, government officials said.

The National Plant Quarantine Service, affiliated with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, said an area in California’s Rialto, San Bernardino County has been strike by the insect known as Bactrocera dorsalis.

The ban affects citrus fruit, kiwis, grapes and other fruit grown in an 84-square-mile radius of the area where the pest was detected.

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Visit Pishin at this time of the year and one would find thousands of acres of fruit orchards. The loaded harvest of apples, grapes, plums, peaches, and apricots is seen everywhere. The discovered the area, and the taste of the fruit, during a stay at the School of Infantry and Tactics, Quetta when we used to walk miles and miles for training maneuvers. It is still the same.

Legend attributes the origin of the name Pishin to a son of the Emperor Afrasiab. Until the middle of the 18th century, when Quetta lastly passed into the hands of Brahvi rulers, the history of Pishin is equal with the area of Kandahar. The earliest mention of Pishin is found in the ancient writing in which “Pishinorha” is described as a dale in an elevated part of the country containing a barren level plain.

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