The general election will be held in Argentina next month (27 October) with the two leading candidates for president being the incumbent, Mauricio Macri, and Alberto Fernández. The outcome is viewed as critical for Argentine agriculture since Fernández is allied with former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and the Peronists who boosted export taxes during the last time in power. At one-point, agricultural export taxes represented 23 percent of government revenues. By contrast, President Macri eliminated the export tax on wheat, corn and sorghum in 2015, and reduced the tax on soybeans from 35 percent to 30 percent. Agriculture’s contribution to government revenues fell to 7 percent. As a condition for a $...
Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve is located on the northeast coast of Unguja, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the Town. The reserve is an important biodiversity spot in the coral rag zone. The forest reserve is rich both in faunal and floral species. The faunal species r...
Fabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, native to dry slopes in western South America.[1] They are evergreen shrubs or subshrubs,[1] with needle-like leaves and profuse tiny tubular flowers in summer. The common name is false heath because the leaves superficially resem...
An Ankylosaurus lumbers along the shore of what’s now eastern Montana. Walking low to the ground, the dino uses its flat, leaf-shaped teeth to tear at ferns lining the water. Suddenly, a shadow looms over the herbivore—a Tyrannosaurus rex is hungry. But Ankylosaurus won’t be a...
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Like all marmots
An adult Vancouver Island marmot typically measures 65 to 70 centimetres (26 to 28 in) from the tip of its nose to the tip of its tail.