Archives for March 24, 2004

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Thai fruit to hit Australia

Thai fruit farmers have won a long battle to get their lychees and longans onto the Australian market place, breaking a long ban by Australian authorities which deemed the fruit as a potential pest-carrying hazard to agricultural crops.

Bird flu outbreak in South Korea

As the FAO continues its calls for caution over bird flu, South Korea announced that a new outbreak of the disease has taken place on a small battery farm just north of the capital, Seoul.