The U.S. biodiesel industry has renewed its efforts to convince Congress to change the recipients of the current $1/gallon biodiesel tax credit from blenders to producers. This is intended to prevent the credit from going to those blending imported biodiesel and thereby encouraging those imports. Soybean Sales to China Canceled USDA today announced that exporters had canceled the sale of 395,000 MT of soybeans to China for shipment in 2015/16. Most likely, this was an exporter shifting delivery of a sale to that country from the U.S. to South America, but it conceivably could be an importer having purchased more than it now wants to receive. As of 14 January, there were 4.412 MMT of these sales to China, and USDA on Monday reported that l...
ZanzibarMnemba Marine Parksouthern cassowary Mnemba Marine Park is located 10 kilometres (6 mi) from Stone Town and forms part of the northeastern Unguja Island. A marine reserve and atoll, its shallow stretch of coral reef is in the shape of an oval. It is located between Matemwe and Nungwi, w...
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...
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