Commodity yields abroad thwarted by politics, poverty
Politics, poverty hinder farmers' yields abroad. Farmhands in Ukraine scavenge junked equipment to keep their ancient tractors and combines running. And: Argentina senate votes against government's new tax on grain exports; the issue has paralyzed country's rich agriculture sector (click 'See also').
Chicago Tribune 2008-07-18
Categories: BUSINESS, Economy
Index: Argentina, corn, Downstate Wapella, Food and Agriculture Organization, food prices, Hugh Grant, hunger, Josef Schmidhuber, Los Angeles Times, Monsanto, Patrick J. McDonnell, Sherbanka, soybeans, topsoil, Ukraine, UN, Vic Riddle, wheat