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Afghans crack open opportunity from China-bound pine nut trade

STORY: Afghans crack open opportunity from China-bound pine nut trade SHOOTING TIME: June 20, 2024 DATELINE: June 26, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:56 LOCATION: Kabul CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of pine trees in eastern Afghanistan 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Pashto): CHIN MOHAMMAD, Farmer 3. various of pine trees in eastern Afghanistan 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Pashto): MINA GUL, Farmer 5. various of pine nuts STORYLINE: Once primarily used as a source of fuel for heating homes, pine trees in eastern Afghanistan have become a cash cow for local villagers. Afghanistan's annual export of 5,000 tonnes of pine nuts is mostly destined for neighboring China. Since November 2018, a China-Afghanistan air corridor has offered a lucrative source of income for farmers in Afghanistan's remote mountains. The first air shipment contained 20 tonnes of pine nuts and flew from Kabul to Shanghai. Afghani farmer Chin Mohammad said six years ago that most pine nut buyers in his village were from neighboring countries. They would purchase

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Drought In Spain

A cow in the Sau reservoir, on November 20, 2023, in Vilanova de Sau, Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). Catalonia's internal hydrographic basins have been in the exceptional drought phase for eight months. The low levels of the reservoirs, at 18.85% of their capacity, and the low possibility of rain in the coming weeks, have led the Government to approve a new package of measures to control consumption. The Metropolitan Area of Barcelona will be one of the first to face a new framework of restrictions that would extend beyond December the entry into the most severe phase, the emergency phase. Photo by Lorena Sopena/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Sde Boaz Settlement Outpost - West Bank

Benjy Myers, deputy director of the civilian first emergency response team, surveys the cow shed and diary farm in the Migdal Oz kibbutz in the West Bank, October 18, 2023. Photo by Oliver Marsden/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Prominent Film Director And Wife Murdered At Home - Tehran

File photo dated July 25, 2018 of Dariush Mehrjui and his wife Vahideh Mohammadifar. One of Iran's most important film-makers, Dariush Mehrjui, was stabbed to death on Saturday evening alongside his wife at their home near Tehran, the judiciary said on Sunday. The 83-year-old was indelibly associated with the Iranian new wave of cinema, having made "The Cow" in 1969, one of the movement's first films. Photo by Hanieh Zahed/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Prominent Film Director And Wife Murdered At Home - Tehran

File photo dated July 25, 2018 of Dariush Mehrjui and his wife Vahideh Mohammadifar. One of Iran's most important film-makers, Dariush Mehrjui, was stabbed to death on Saturday evening alongside his wife at their home near Tehran, the judiciary said on Sunday. The 83-year-old was indelibly associated with the Iranian new wave of cinema, having made "The Cow" in 1969, one of the movement's first films. Photo by Hanieh Zahed/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Prominent Film Director And Wife Murdered At Home - Tehran

File photo dated July 25, 2018 of Dariush Mehrjui and his wife Vahideh Mohammadifar. One of Iran's most important film-makers, Dariush Mehrjui, was stabbed to death on Saturday evening alongside his wife at their home near Tehran, the judiciary said on Sunday. The 83-year-old was indelibly associated with the Iranian new wave of cinema, having made "The Cow" in 1969, one of the movement's first films. Photo by Hanieh Zahed/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Prominent Film Director And Wife Murdered At Home - Tehran

File photo dated July 25, 2018 of Dariush Mehrjui and his wife Vahideh Mohammadifar. One of Iran's most important film-makers, Dariush Mehrjui, was stabbed to death on Saturday evening alongside his wife at their home near Tehran, the judiciary said on Sunday. The 83-year-old was indelibly associated with the Iranian new wave of cinema, having made "The Cow" in 1969, one of the movement's first films. Photo by Hanieh Zahed/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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GREECE-KARDITSA-FLOOD-DAMAGE

(230912) -- KARDITSA, Sept. 12, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Sept. 11, 2023 shows a cow near flooded houses in Karditsa, Thessaly region, Greece. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Sunday the first package of relief measures for the flood-stricken regions in central Greece, as the flood-caused death toll increased to 15, Greek national broadcaster ERT reported. (Xinhua/Marios Lolos)

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400 milu deer released into buffer zone in China's national nature reserve

STORY: 400 milu deer released into buffer zone in China's national nature reserve DATELINE: Jan. 15, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:34 LOCATION: WUHAN, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of 400 milu deer running STORYLINE: 400 milu deer in China's Shishou Milu Deer National Nature Reserve were recently released into a newly created 8,000-mu (about 533 hectares) buffer zone. Milu deer, nicknamed "sibuxiang," or "animal like none of the four," are under first-class national protection in China. They have a horse-like face, a donkey-like tail, cow-like hooves, and stag-like antlers. To protect the precious species, China has established three reserves, including the Shishou Milu Deer National Nature Reserve in Hubei Province, to enlarge the population. In the 1990s, the Shishou reserve introduced 64 milu deer from abroad in two batches. The number of milu deer in the reserve has grown to around 2,500 over the past three decades. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Wuhan, China. (XHTV)

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Cow auction resumes in disease-hit Miyazaki

TAKACHIHO, Japan - Potential buyers participate in a cow auction in Takachiho, Miyazaki Prefecture, on Aug. 29, 2010, after it resumed for the first time since April due to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease which hit the livestock industry in the southwestern Japan region.

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Cow auction resumes in disease-hit Miyazaki

TAKACHIHO, Japan - Potential buyers participate in a cow auction in Takachiho, Miyazaki Prefecture, on Aug. 29, 2010, after it resumed for the first time since April due to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease which hit the livestock industry in the southwestern Japan region.

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Cow auction resumes in disease-hit Miyazaki

TAKACHIHO, Japan - Potential buyers participate in a cow auction in Takachiho, Miyazaki Prefecture, on Aug. 29, 2010, after it resumed for the first time since April due to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease which hit the livestock industry in the southwestern Japan region.

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New cow in Miyazaki suspected of foot-and-mouth disease

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Miyazaki Gov. Hideo Higashikokubaru speaks to reporters after a meeting to discuss foot-and-mouth disease countermeasures at the prefectural hall in Miyazaki City on July 5, 2010, following the discovery of another cow with symptoms of the disease in the city. The new suspected case was the first to come to light since June 18.

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New cow in Miyazaki suspected of foot-and-mouth disease

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Miyazaki Gov. Hideo Higashikokubaru speaks during a meeting to discuss foot-and-mouth disease countermeasures at the prefectural hall in Miyazaki City on July 5, 2010, after another cow in the city was found to have symptoms of the disease. The new suspected case was the first to come to light since June 18.

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Japan's emperor, empress visit park, farm in Ottawa suburbs

OTTAWA, Canada - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko pat a cow on its nose on July 4 at the state-run Central Experimental Farm in the Ottawa area where they are staying on the first leg of their 15-day visit to Canada and the U.S. state of Hawaii. (Pool photo)

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U.S. beef goes on sale at 3 stores in Tokyo area

CHIBA, Japan - A shop assistant displays U.S. beef at the outlet of the Japanese unit of Costco Wholesale Corp. in Chiba, eastof Tokyo, on Aug. 9. The major U.S. retailer started selling American beef at its three stores in the Tokyo metropolitan area after the Japanese government confirmed the previous day the safety of the first shipment of U.S. beef since Japan lifted a reinstated import ban over fears of mad cow disease.

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Inspection begins of 1st U.S. beef shipment

NARITA, Japan - Quarantine officials check the first shipment of U.S. beef at Narita airport, northeast of Tokyo, on Aug. 8 since Japan lifted its reinstated import ban over fears of mad cow disease.

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1st U.S. beef arrives at Narita after lifting of import ban

NARITA, Japan - The first shipment of about 5 tons of U.S. beef since Japan lifted a reinstated import ban over mad cow disease is stored in a warehouse after arriving at Narita International Airport, northeast of Tokyo, on Aug. 7.

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Food Safety Commission OKs easing of all-cow testing for BSE

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's independent Food Safety Commission is in session in Tokyo on May 6 on the issue of the country's import ban on American beef. The panel approved an easing of the blanket testing of all cows for mad cow disease, paving the way for lifting the ban imposed after the December 2003 discovery of the first U.S. case of mad cow disease.

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(2)Yoshinoya serves gyudon on anniversary of suspension

TOKYO, Japan - A woman customer takes a picture of a friend eating a ''gyudon'' beef-on-rice dish in Tokyo's Yurakucho district Feb. 11 as Yoshinoya D&C Co. revived its popular gyudon dishes for one day on the first anniversary of the dishes being pulled off the menu due to Japan's ban on American beef imports over mad cow disease.

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(3)Yoshinoya serves gyudon on anniversary of suspension

TOKYO, Japan - Customers crowd a Yoshinoya D&C Co. restaurant in Tokyo's Yurakucho district Feb. 11 as the company revived its popular gyudon beef-on-rice dishes for one day on the first anniversary of the dishes being pulled off the menu due to Japan's ban on American beef imports over mad cow disease.

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(1)Yoshinoya serves gyudon on anniversary of suspension

TOKYO, Japan - People line up in front of a Yoshinoya D&C Co. restaurant to take ''gyudon'' beef-on-rice dishes in Tokyo's Yurakucho district Feb. 11. The company revived its popular gyudon dishes for one day on the first anniversary of the dishes being pulled off the menu due to Japan's ban on American beef imports over mad cow disease.

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(2)Japan's 1st case of human mad cow disease confirmed

TOKYO, Japan - Tetsuyuki Kitamoto (L), a professor at Tohoku University who heads the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry's experts committee on Creutzfeldt-Jacob and other diseases, briefs reporters about Japan's first CJD patient.

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Japan's 1st case of human mad cow disease confirmed

TOKYO, Japan - Health ministry experts confirmed in an emergency meeting Japan's first case of the human variant of mad cow disease in a Japanese man who died in December. The ministry suspects the patient in his 50s was infected with the variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease in Britain where he had stayed for about a month in around 1989.

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Japan, U.S. begin working-level talks on beef row

TOKYO, Japan - Officials from Japan (L, back) and the United States (front) begin working-level talks in Tokyo on April 24 to seek ways to resolve a beef trade dispute that followed the discovery in late December of the first U.S. case of mad cow disease.

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(2)Cow found highly likely to have mad cow disease, 10th in Japan

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Kanagawa prefectural government health officials give a press conference in Yokohama on Feb. 21 after a dairy cow from the prefecture was found highly likely to have been infected with mad cow disease. If confirmed, it would be the first case since a cow was found in Hiroshima Prefecture three and a half months ago and raise the number of cows infected with the disease in Japan to 10.

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Japan, U.S. agree on efforts to restore confidence in beef

WASHINGTON, United States - Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Shoichi Nakagawa (R) and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman (2nd from fore) are in talks in Washington on Jan. 7. They agreed to cooperate in their efforts to restore consumer confidence in U.S. beef products, damaged by the country's first case of mad cow disease. But they ended the meeting without discussing ways to take concrete steps toward lifting Japan's ban on American beef imports or implementing stricter measures to ensure the safety of U.S. cattle.

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Japanese team heads to U.S. for info on mad cow disease

NARITA, Japan - A five-member Japanese fact-finding team prepares to leave Narita airport Jan. 8 for Washington to gather information about the first case of mad cow disease in the United States. The mission will visit the U.S. and Canada until Jan. 16.

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U.S. Embassy officials brief Japan on BSE discovery

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Embassy officials meet Japanese farm ministry officials in Tokyo on Dec. 24 to explain the U.S. government's announcement of the first U.S. case of mad cow disease in Washington State.

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Quarantine official confiscates beef jerky at airport

OSAKA, Japan - A quarantine official confiscates beef jerky souvenirs from a tourist at Kansai International Airport on Dec. 24 following the U.S. government's announcement of the first U.S. case of mad cow disease in Washington State.

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Japan to ban imports of U.S. beef

TOKYO, Japan - Agricultural, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Yoshiyuki Kamei tells a press conference on Dec. 24 the Japanese government decided to effectively ban imports of U.S. beef, following the announcement by the U.S. government that it had found its first case of mad cow disease in Washington state.

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(1)Panel adopts final report on mad cow handling

TOKYO, Japan - A special panel investigating the government's handling of mad cow disease is in session April 2 to adopt a final report on the first outbreak of mad cow disease, formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), in Japan in 2001. The report blasted the farm ministry for its failure to ban meat and bone meal (MBM) feed in the mid-1990s.

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Farm ministry begins tagging all cows to combat mad cow disease

YAMATO, Japan - The farm ministry begins numbering all cows in Japan on Dec. 17 in an attempt to deal with mad cow disease. The first cow (photo) to be tagged was in the town of Yamato, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan. All cows will be followed from birth to slaughter and distribution under the numbering system.

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Tokyo beef fair opens to revive demand

TOKYO, Japan - People attend an annual beef fair which opened Nov. 17 in Tokyo's Minato Ward. Sponsors of the two-day fair hope to boost beef consumption, which has sharply dropped amid fears of mad-cow disease following the discovery of Japan's first case of the deadly brain-wasting illness in September.

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Osaka schools reinstate beef in lunches after mad cow scare

OSAKA, Japan - Pupils at Sekimehigashi Primary School in Osaka's Joto Ward eat school lunches using ground beef on Oct. 30. Fifty-two public primary schools in Osaka reinstated beef into school lunches after keeping it off the menus for about a month following confirmation of the first case of mad cow disease in Japan.

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Farm minister insists beef, dairy products safe

TOKYO, Japan - Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Chikara Sakaguchi (L) and Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tsutomu Takebe eat steak in Tokyo on Oct. 2 to show Japanese beef is safe. Consumer confidence in the safety of beef and dairy products has been deteriorating after Japan's first case of mad cow disease was confirmed last month.

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Imported meat and bone meal withdrawn

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - A man collects bags of imported meat and bone meal (MBM), a protein feed made from the crushed internal organs, skin and bones of cows, in Tokushima Prefecture on Sept. 23. The first case of mad cow disease outside of Europe has been confirmed by the agricultural ministry. MBM feed has been blamed for the spread of mad-cow disease infection. Currently, Japan bans the import of MBM from the European Union.

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(1)Mad cow scare

TOKYO, Japan - Naruo Miyajima, hygiene section chief of the agriculture ministry, speaks at a hurriedly called news conference early on the morning of Sept. 22. He said British government veterinarians have confirmed that a Japanese dairy cow that has been suspected of mad-cow disease has been infected with the disease, the first case reported outside Europe.

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Inspection confirms plant used no feed causing mad cow disease

MITO, Japan - Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries officials conduct an inspection of a feed factory in Ibaraki Prefecture on Sept. 12. They said later they have confirmed the factory used no animal-based ''meat and bone meal (MBM)'' that may have caused Japan's first suspected case of mad cow disease.

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(1)Mad cow scare in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Food industry officials crowd a briefing session hurriedly called Sept. 11 by the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry to explain about government probes into the suspected case of Japan's first mad cow disease in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo.

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(3)Mad cow scare in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - An unidentified Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry addresses a meeting of experts called Sept. 11 to look into the suspected case of Japan's first mad cow disease in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo.

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Vet checks cow farms

OSAKA, Japan - A veterinarian checks cows at a farm in Sakai, Osaka on Sept. 11, one day after after Japan reported its first-ever case of suspected mad cow disease in a dairy cow in Chiba, east of Tokyo.

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Takebe explains steps against mad cow disease

TOKYO, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tsutomu Takebe holds a news conference at his ministry on Sept. 11 to explain how the ministry is handling Japan's first suspected case of mad cow disease.

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1st suspected case of mad cow disease found in Chiba Pref.

TOKYO, Japan - Takemi Nagamura, head of the livestock industry department at the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry, speaks at a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 10 about Japan's first suspected case of mad cow disease.

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World's first cloned twin calves

Workers at the Ishikawa Prefectural Livestock Center feed the world's first cloned twin calves, shown to the press for the first time. The calves, born July 5, are the first twins ever cloned from somatic cells taken from an adult cow. The twins, named ''Noto'' (back) and ''Kaga,'' each drink 2 liters of milk a day, indicating they are quite healthy, center officials said.

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Cloned twin calves

Two baby cloned calves look unconcerned before the camera at Ishikawa Prefectural Animal Husbandry Center in Oshimizu, Ishikawa Prefecture. The pair, born July 5, are the world's first twin calves cloned from somatic cells taken from a cow fetus. According to Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries figures, Japanese researchers have successfully impregnated about 30 cows through cloning technique.

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Calves cloned from adult somatic cells

Twin calves produced by cloning somatic cells taken from an adult cow with unfertilized eggs are born July 5 in Ishikawa Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast, becoming the world's first calves cloned with this technique, according to the Ishikawa Prefectural Livestock Research Center and a Kinki University animal husbandry research group.

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UK-SCOTLAND-INGLISTON-THE ROYAL HIGHLAND SHOW

(220625) -- INGLISTON, June 25, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A young girl touches a cow on the second day of the Royal Highland Show in Ingliston, near Edinburgh in Scotland, the United Kingdom, June 24, 2022. The 4-day Royal Highland Show celebrates its 200th anniversary of the first Show held in 1822. (Xinhua/Han Yan)

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Japan's 1st case of human mad cow disease confirmed

TOKYO, Japan - Health ministry experts confirmed in an emergency meeting Japan's first case of the human variant of mad cow disease in a Japanese man who died in December. The ministry suspects the patient in his 50s was infected with the variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease in Britain where he had stayed for about a month in around 1989. (Kyodo)

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(2)Yoshinoya serves gyudon on anniversary of suspension

TOKYO, Japan - A woman customer takes a picture of a friend eating a ''gyudon'' beef-on-rice dish in Tokyo's Yurakucho district Feb. 11 as Yoshinoya D&C Co. revived its popular gyudon dishes for one day on the first anniversary of the dishes being pulled off the menu due to Japan's ban on American beef imports over mad cow disease. (Kyodo)