Six cans of soup —you could have your choice of various kinds, including turtle soup, for only 45 cents; or sugar corns, six cans for 41 cents; or six large cans of tomatoes for 60 cents.
There are at least ten insecticide/acaricide formulations in the general list of pesticides registered by SPC for corn, sugar cane, vegetables (SPC, 2014).
In addition, the Government of China has waived tariffs and import VAT for 921,400 tons of alternative products such as sugar cane, corn, rubber, bananas and rice from the north of Myanmar and the Laos People’s Democratic Republic.
A sizeable part of the responses to these needs comprises regular delivery of food (rice, noodles, kidney beans, white corn, sugar, tea, biscuits, oil and preserved meat).
A sizeable part of the responses to these needs comprises regular delivery of food (rice, noodles, kidney beans, white corn, sugar, tea, biscuits, oil and preserved meat
Additionally, environmental and energy-security concerns have increased the demand for biofuels, which has required greater production of corn and sugar cane.
The prices of rice, corn and sugar generally trended downwards during the first half of 2010, although prices remained high compared to their 2000s average.
This soil, along with a moderate climate, has made Ukraine one of the world’s most productive farming regions, producing sugar beets, wheat, barley, corn, and other crops.
With more than # million undernourished people in the world, a major preoccupation in the context of the debate on biofuels is whether rapid growth in demand for energy feedstocks- such as corn, sugar cane and oil beans- could divert too much cropland to fuel crops and imperil food security
The food: Main crops include rice, cacaos (or, cocoa beans), citrus fruits, coconuts, coffee, corn, manioc (or, cassava), sugar, and other tropical fruits and vegetables.
Moreover, in May 2013, an invasion of 500 million locusts, which affected 15 of the 22 regions of the country, destroyed many crops, including rice, grass, corn and sugar cane, and deprived inhabitants of food and modest gains.
The following foods are often considered to contain mostly empty calories and may lead to weight gain: Sugar: cake, cookies, sweets, candy, soft drinks, fruit-flavored sweet beverages and other foods containing mostly added sugars (including High-fructose corn syrup).
High dietary intake of animal protein, sodium, sugars including honey, refined sugars, fructose and high fructose corn syrup, oxalate, grapefruit juice, and apple juice may increase the risk of kidney stone formation.
Drought in the northern hemisphere or floods in Australia and Pakistan increased the prices of wheat, corn and sugar, which precipitated similar increases in the national food import bill and in the cost of domestically produced livestock, since Jamaica imported animal feed.