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 Special Rønningen Ramblings report about Norway’s dwindling farm culture Norway is a rich country, a fact determined not just by the amount of income people have, the taxes people pay or the cost of things they buy. Norway is rich in natural resources. The fact that we have oil is a given, and since [...]  Agricultural organizations claim that higher income for Norwegian farmers is absolutely necessary, and predicts farmers will make large demands during negotiations this spring. While agricultural subsidies amounted to nearly 7 percent of the national budget in 1980, subsidies have hovered around 1.5 percent during the past six years. In 2010, 1.3 percent of [...] By Wojciech Moskwa and Joachim Dagenborg OSLO, July 16 (Reuters) – Norwegian fertiliser maker Yara International ASA (YAR.OL) is aiming to triple its market share to about 20 percent through consolidation in the global industry, which it says has turned a corner after a bad year. For Full Story & [...]  The often fatal farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L) disease known as heart and skeletal muscle inflammation (HSMI) may be posing a risk to wild fish coming in close proximity to marine pens and escaped farmed fish. First detected in salmon on a farm in Norway in 1999, HSMI has now been [...]  Norwegian municipalities allowed to transfer 13,000 decares of cultivated and cultivable land to non-agricultural use in 2009, a decrease of 13 per cent from the year before. Cultivated land represented 8,300 decares of the transferred agricultural area, and cultivable land 4,700 decares. The area of cultivated land transferred increased by 400 decares from 2008 [...]  Tine’s dairy companies havev merged with the parent company, to form a company that will be named Tine SA, was adopted at the annual meeting of Tine. The background is a new cooperative and the need to adapt the organization to increased competition. The merger will be completed by the end of August and [...] Preliminary figures for production of potatoes and forage plants in 2009. The yield of potatoes decreased by 65,700 tonnes from 2008 to 2009 and amounted to 332,700 tonnes. The average decare yield of potatoes was 2,400 kilos in 2009 and 2,800 kilos in 2008. From 2008 to 2009, the yield of all meadows for mowing [...]  Farm owner Inge Gustavsen from Hyggen outside Drammen is dependent on seasonal workers from Poland and Vietnam in the summer. Before, the Turkish citizens living in Norway worked with us. But the young generation will not take this type of work, like most others who live in Norway. We are totally dependent on assistance [...]  Norwegian Grieg Seafood ASA’s subsidiary Grieg Seafood Hjaltland UK Ltd has signed an agreement to acquire Shetland-based Northern Aquaculture Limited. Grieg will acquire four production sites on the west coast of Shetland with a total combined discharge consent of 2,900 tonnes. The purchased production sites fit into Grieg Seafood Hjaltland’s current production areas. There [...] Livestock husbandry. Preliminary figures, as of 1 January 2010 Preliminary figures from those who apply for agricultural production subsidies show an increase in the number of sheep, beef cows and laying hens. The number of sheep increased by 2 per cent to 1.05 million, and the number of beef cows by 6 per cent to [...] |
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