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South Africa’s land reform rises from ‘the ashes of dispossession’

The News International 31 Mar 2025
And that´s the future we´re planting here,” he said, pointing to stretches of papaya, banana, lychee and citrus trees managed in a joint venture between black and white farmers ... farm bananas in Uganda.
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Work by Vietnamese master painter shatters expectations at the Christie’s live auction

Vietnam News 31 Mar 2025
In addition to the piece Les Trois Femmes, his painting Villageoises parmi des bananiers (Villagers among Banana Trees) was sold for $1.08 million by French auction house Drouot Estimations in December 2022. VNS.  .  . .
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Subsidies worth €60m for farmers

CyprusMail 30 Mar 2025
On environmentally friendly practices, the department said that certain measures would target banana cultivation, including subsidies for removing previous year’s trees, pruning old leaves, and keeping proper farming records.
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Delhi tree census will take four years, Supreme Court informed

Hindustan Times 27 Mar 2025
... with 23 members, will oversee the tree census ... The FRI said it will go by definition of trees provided by FSI that excludes “non-perennial non-woody species like banana and tall shrubs or climbers”.
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Elephants enter JSR school campus

The Times of India 26 Mar 2025
Jamshedpur ... Forest officials arrived and found two elephants on our premises ... While the elephants were feeding on bananas, mangoes, and tree leaves, we ensured that the students remain in their hostel rooms ... .
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Meet Mount Pleasant senior Avin Truong, The Hawk Eye's High School Athlete of the Week

The Hawk Eye 26 Mar 2025
Avin Truong has come a long way in his four years on the Mount Pleasant High School boys track and field team ... Truong, a senior, qualified for the New Balance National Indoor Championships last week in Boston ... Golf ... My family has a banana tree. .
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Feature: China-Africa cooperation boosts sustainable development in Lake Victoria region

China.dot.org 26 Mar 2025
restaurants installing biogas systems to utilize kitchen waste as cooking fuel, and residents planting fruit trees such as mangoes, papayas and bananas while engaging in poultry farming-practices reminiscent of those in the Poyang Lake region.
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Gratitude in Guatemala: Seeing beauty beyond the poverty

American Press 23 Mar 2025
By Mary Richardson. Sometimes you have to be hit over the head to be grateful ... However, we were lucky ... Banana trees make a canopy over a two-bedroom cement block house, with a roof that extends over a dirt-floored area used for outdoor cooking ... .
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Pijush lauds Barekuri’s Hoolock gibbon conservation efforts

The Times of India 22 Mar 2025
Dibrugarh ... Minister Hazarika interacted with villagers and observed the gibbons thriving in their natural habitat. In a delightful moment, the minister offered bananas to the gibbons, who gracefully swung down from the trees to accept the treat ... .
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Ghost protocol: Meet the world’s most threatened uncontacted tribes

Hindustan Times 21 Mar 2025
While the Shompen are largely hunter-gatherers, they do cultivate small gardens of yam, taro, chilli, lemon, tobacco, vegetables, bananas, and pandanus (a fleshy local fruit that grows on palm-like trees).
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Mother, two children escape flood by clinging on to banana tree before rescue

The Star 20 Mar 2025
KOTA KINABALU. As floodwaters surged through Kampung Langkon in Sabah's northern district of Kota Marudu early Thursday (Mar 20), a mother and her two children waded desperately towards the main road, hoping to reach safety. Read full story ... .
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‘A deliberate poisoning’: how a banned pesticide haunts the French Caribbean

The Observer 20 Mar 2025
Tiburce Cléon was just a teenager when he began working in the vast banana plantations of Guadeloupe ... A banana plantation in Martinique ... He would use his bare hands to scatter the powder at the base of banana trees, without gloves or a mask.
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Forest department to plant fruit-bearing trees in 303 model schools

Hindustan Times 19 Mar 2025
Fruit bearing trees like banana, tamarind, guava and other native fruit species will be planted at schools ... Fruit bearing trees like banana, tamarind, guava and other native fruit species will be planted at schools.
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Indonesia’s cocoa farmers work with businesses to fight the bitter impact of climate change

The Saratogian 18 Mar 2025
He is using organic fertilizer and has adopted agroforestry techniques, integrating other crops and trees such as bananas, dragon fruit, coffee and pepper, into his farm to foster a healthier ecosystem and invest in other income sources.
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Sri Lanka counts monkeys, peacocks and squirrels to tackle crop damage

CyprusMail 18 Mar 2025
With an air gun across his shoulder and lead pellets in a plastic bag, Gnanasena spends hours patrolling the neat rows of coconut, mango and banana plants he has carefully grown.
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