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World Service,07 Jul 1997,13 mins

World Grain Yields Not Rising Fast Enough

The Farming World

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Increases in food grain yields have fallen behind population growth, reports Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute. Plus, the success of obatanpa maize in Ghana, and cattle-keepers in Kenya who feed high-protein feed to dairy cows and then use the nitrogen-rich manure to fertilise crops.

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