These activities have been funded by
the Governments of Sweden, the Netherlands
and the United States.
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Bodisen Biotech Received Contracts Totaling $27.4 Million in January for 2005
Product Delivery
com) announced today that in
January its total contracts received for 2005 product
delivery totaled
$27.
Bodisen is headquartered in Shaanxi, China, an agricultural hub of
China
and the economic gateway to the western regions of China. management
and are subject to a number
of factors and uncertainties that could
cause actual results to differ materially from those described
in the
forward-looking statements. Seismo-Electromagnetic phenomenon, on the
other hand, after
20 years of research is starting to yield statistical
information indicating that some unexplained
electromagnetic indicators do
exist.evapotranspiration edges
"Our long-term goal," says Tom Bleier, President of QuakeFinder
, "is to
collaborate with government and private entities to provide short-term
earthquake warnings
derived from satellite and ground data.
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QuakeFinder, a small research company based in Palo
Alto, California, and
several government agencies including NASA -- as well as Stanford, UC Berkeley
and other leading Universities -- are all studying the correlation between the
Extreme Low Frequency
(ELF) magnetic fields and pre-seismic activity. We hope to
achieve the vision that people will be
able to turn on their TV or computer
and see earthquake forecasts, just like they do today with hurricanes
, tornado
warnings and weather forecasts.humid arable
Many households could be forced to consume their
limited
stocks of seed and sell or eat their breeding animals."
FAO is supporting conservation and promoting
multiplication of locally
adapted varieties of wheat, sorghum and pearl millet in order to refresh
the
germplasm of the most common crops in Eritrea.4 million.swallow intergovernmental
FAO has also supported improvement
of forage land and has distributed
veterinary drugs, dairy feed, cereal seed and tools to drought
- and war-
affected farmers. Its
"green" products support the mandate of the Chinese national
government
to increase crop yields for the purpose of decreasing
China's dependency on food imports.
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For more information visit http://www. Natural causes of desertification include climate
change, which has a net result of producing less yearly rainfall and natural erosion caused by water
, wind or gravity.
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'Only way out'
FAO is currently procuring seeds for the June planting
season for
distribution to 27 000 poor, drought-affected families in the main crop
production
regions of Gash Barka, Debub and Anseba.outputs sahel
org/reliefoperations/en/index. We are
now nearing the completion
of our new manufacturing facilities which
will at least double our current manufacturing capacity
in 2005 and
allow us to meet the demand already being shown by customers this
year.
About
Bodisen Biotech, Inc.fao rainfall
A new FAO project, funded with nearly $500 000 from the Government of
Sweden
in response to the 2005 UN Consolidated Appeal for the country, is
helping farmers resume crop production
through distribution and multiplication
of good quality cereal seeds.
Assistance includes
seeds, tractor services for land preparation,
fertilizer, training and technical support to 500 farmers
.
Ms.
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within
the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities
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No war, no peace
This year FAO has distributed 400 tonnes of wheat bran
for animals
belonging to around 2 300 families displaced during the 1998-2000 conflict
with Ethiopia
who have now returned to their villages in the border region of
Gash Barka.
The FAO Emergency
Unit in Eritrea has rehabilitated 12 veterinary clinics
inside the temporary security zone along
the border with Ethiopia, which were
seriously damaged during the conflict.
With large numbers
of men doing compulsory national and military service
requirements, there is a shortage of skilled
manpower.QuakeFinder Research May Provide a Promising Approach to Earthquake Forecasting
quakefinder
.Desertification is a man-made or natural process of degrading arable land into that which has such poor
soil that farming is not possible or is nearly impossible.
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"But importing seeds only solves the
problem for a year or two," said
Falcone. Given a quake-warning system,
lives could be saved
by taking simple precautions such as evacuating people
from unsafe buildings or pre-positioning response
teams and supplies. The major problem in most of this research is
the low level of funding.arid leveling
"In some areas, more than 50 percent of households are headed by women,
who are often barred from
agricultural activities such as ploughing," said
Marco Falcone, FAO Emergency Coordinator for Eritrea
.bodisen."
Utilizing proprietary technologies, Bodisen sells over 60 packaged
products in 3 product
categories: Organic Compound Fertilizer; Organic
Liquid Fertilizer; and Pesticides + Insecticides
. Some man-made causes of desertification include leveling forests for farm land or urban development
and the use of river dams.
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FAO will buy seed
from these farmers after harvest to distribute in the
area during the 2006
planting season to more than 13 000 other farming families.
Links:
FAO 2005 appeal for Eritrea:
http://www.fao.
The International Workshop for Seismo
-Electromagnetics (IWSE) conference
in Chofu, Japan on March 15-17 attracted over 130 participants
from Taiwan,
China, Russia, India, Italy, France, Mexico, Austria, Israel, Bulgaria,
Ukraine,
Greece, USA and Japan.rainfall fao
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(OTCBB: BBOI, website: www.leveling environmentalists
These statements are based on the
current
expectations or beliefs of Bodisen Biotech, Inc. Decades
of studies looking for mechanical or crustal
precursors to large quakes have
not found any clear indicators. Let's hope we don't need to experience
a major
urban earthquake before there is enough public concern and government response
to develop
this new area of research.livelihoods drylands
3 million people -- are
dependent on food aid.livelihoods desertification
"Promoting local production
of quality seeds is the only way out of
the current situation, particularly given the rather fragile
agro-ecology of
Eritrea, the non-availability on the international market of adapted varieties
and
the current poor quality of local seeds.fao. PALO ALTO, Calif.drylands swallow
To reduce dependency on emergency
food assistance and
improve the ability of rural populations to adapt to recurrent drought
conditions
, agricultural inputs such as seeds, farming tools, animal feed and
veterinary support are also needed
, according to the UN agency., The implications of providing
forecasts of earthquake activity are
enormous.asals degradation
More Than 60 Percent of Population Depends on Food Aid - Seeds and
Livestock Support Needed
WASHINGTON and ROME, Five years of severe drought
in
Eritrea, coupled with the ongoing border dispute with Ethiopia, have
exhausted the coping mechanisms
of vulnerable farming families throughout the
country, contributing to widespread poverty and food
insecurity, FAO said
today. Some significant new waves have been rising in earthquake
science
.
ABOUT QUAKEFINDER -- QuakeFinder is a private business located in Palo
Alto, CA, dedicated
to saving lives by conducting research to enable global
forecasts of seismic activity, in order to
eventually provide customers with
early warnings of potentially destructive earthquakes.humid edges
"In recent years, the wind prevailing in the scientific community did not
appear to be favorable for
earthquake prediction research," said Masashi
Hayakawa, Chairman of the IWSE Conference, "the present
negative views are by
no means groundless. Amid the general pessimism, seismo-electromagnetic science
is a new
and promising approach.
QuakeFinder is also starting to expand their ELF satellite and
ground
monitoring to include "fusing multiple data sets" to provide multiple
simultaneous indicators
prior to the earthquake.combatting degrading
Protracted Hunger Season Expected in Eritrea
Recurrent drought and
the volatile security situation make this region
particularly vulnerable, and animals are facing
a severe shortage of feed as a
result of the depletion and degradation of traditional rangeland areas
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FAO emergency relief and rehabilitation:
http://www.html
This figure
does not include any contracts that are
likely to be secured in the remaining three quarters of 2005
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Last year's meagre harvest has already been exhausted and the hunger
season, which arrived
two months early in March, is expected to continue until
the next harvest in November. Bodisen's
organic
fertilizers can be absorbed by plants within 48 hours while enriching
soil conditions
without the damaging effects associated with chemical
fertilizers.fao outputs
Although Eritrea and Ethiopia
signed a peace agreement in December 2000,
tensions remain over their still-disputed border.
Business Editors
NEW YORK----Bodisen Biotech, Inc. The
Bodisen brand is a highly respected
organic brand in China.combatting outputs
In parallel, the European Commission Humanitarian Office has agreed to
fund an $800 000 FAO project to support similar activities, as well as
livestock through animal
feed distribution.org/reliefoperations/en/appeals/51466/highlight_51535. Papers presented at this conference
indicate
the possible existence of a variety of subtle effects in the Earth and
ionosphere, occurring
several hours to days before major Earthquakes, which
may provide the foundations of desperately
needed short-term forecasts.
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More than 60 percent of the population -- 2.
Bodisen
's new customers include a number of large national wholesale
distributors that were secured at recent
expos, tradeshows and by
Bodisen's growing brand name. Qiong Wang, CEO of Bodisen, commented "We
are very pleased
with the new contracts that we have obtained for 2005 delivery. However, earthquakes
are nothing but physical phenomena,
and science should have some predictive power on the future behavior
of any
physical system.com.degrading swallow
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