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.

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"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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Safe Harbor Statement

This press release may contain forward-looking statements within
the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

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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.

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"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.

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(OTCBB: BBOI, website: www.

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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.

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3 million people -- are
dependent on food aid.

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"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.

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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.

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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.

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"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.

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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 .html

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.

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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.

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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.

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