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Cellular agriculture focuses on the production of agricultural products from cell cultures using a combination of biotechnology, tissue engineering, molecular biology, and synthetic biology to create and design new methods of producing proteins, fats, and tissues that would otherwise come from traditional agriculture. [1]
The agriculture industry in Puerto Rico constitutes over $800 million or about 0.69% of the island's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2020. [1] [2] [3] Currently the sector accounts for 15% of the food consumed locally. [4] Experts from the University of Puerto Rico argued that these crops could cover approximately 30% of the local demand ...
Puerto Rican jíbaro in a sugar-cane field during harvest, ca. 1941. Jíbaro ( Spanish: [ ˈ x i β a ɾ o]) is a word used in Puerto Rico to refer to the countryside people who farm the land in a traditional way. The jíbaro is a self-subsistence farmer, and an iconic reflection of the Puerto Rican people.
v. t. e. The Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture ( Spanish: Departamento de Agricultura) is one of the few Cabinet-level government agencies explicitly created by the Constitution of Puerto Rico [1] as the Department of "Agriculture and Commerce", most of the commerce at the time of its enactment being agriculture-based.
Agriculture in Chile encompasses a wide range of different activities due to its particular geography, climate, geology and human factors. Historically agriculture is one of the bases of Chile's economy, now agriculture and allied sectors—like forestry, logging and fishing —account only for 4.9% of the GDP as of 2007 and employed 13.6% of ...
The sheep farming boom attracted thousands of immigrants from Chiloé and Europe to southern Patagonia. [1] Early sheep farming in Patagonia was oriented towards wool production but changed over time with the development of industrial refrigerators towards meat export. [2] Besides altering the demographic and economic outlook of Southern ...
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ( Spanish: Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación, MAPA ), is the department of the Government of Spain responsible for proposing and carrying out the government policy on agricultural, livestock and fishery resources, food industry, rural development and human food.
A 76-year-old Connecticut woman was found dead at her home Wednesday, hours before she was to be sentenced for killing her husband and hiding his body for months while continuing to collect his ...