Meat and Poultry Production Up 5 Percent China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) recently announced that the country's pork, beef, mutton and poultry production reached 57.28 MMT for the first three quarters of 2012, a 5 percent increase year-on-year. Of the total meat output, 37.54 MMT are pork, up 5.2 percent year-on-year. According to the China Meat Association, ongoing consolidation in the meat sector and continual growth in meat consumption drive up the production.Over the past 20 years, China's per capita pork consumption has grown at an average rate of 3.4 percent per year, while per capita demand for chicken has risen by more than 8 percent annually. Growing meat demand in China is driving consolidation in the meat industry.Ind...
Accountability and a comprehensive approach to export programming
WPI’s team helped construct a strategic approach to develop, implement, and track promotional activities in 8 key regions across the globe for an agricultural export association. With continued progress measurement and strategic advisory services from WPI, the association has seen its ROI from investments in promotional programming increase by 44 percent over the past 5 years. Not only does this type of holistic approach to organizational strategy provide measurable results to track and analyze, it fosters top-down and bottom-up organizational accountability.
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...
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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...