Fisheries ministers in the Maritimes say they plan to sit down and examine the pricing structure for lobsters as fishermen continue to tie up their boats to protest slumping prices. Nova Scotia Fisheries Minister Sterling Belliveau said Monday he is trying to set up a meeting with his counterparts from P.E.I. and New Brunswick later this week. Belliveau met with fishermen from throughout Nova Scotia to come up with ways to resolve the ongoing dispute, get fishermen back on the water and probe a pricing system that has frustrated lobster harvesters for years.

Discarded mussel (tahong) shells can be utilized as raw materials in the production of stronger and lighter hollow blocks, according to a winning proposal of students from the University of the Philippines in the Visayas-Tacloban College (UPVTC) in the recent “Project Pagsulong,” a national social enterprise business proposal writing competition. UPVTC BS Management students Maria Katrina L. Alfante, Geneline P. Apuya and Mark Anthony S.

It is important to check the wheat crop on a regular basis to avoid aphid attack on it. These views were expressed by Punjab Agriculture Director General Dr M Anjum Ali in an interview to Media on Saturday. He said if growers observed an aphid attack they should shake the affected area b do not let aphids to increase, so farmers must leave the insects in wheat fields for help,” he added. Agriculture poisons should not be used on the wheat crop as it leaves harmful effects on humans and the environment.

By Michael Sin SYDNEY, March 12 (Reuters) - A baseball-sized snail with an insatiable appetite for hundreds of plants including cocoa and papaya has been seized and destroyed by Australian officials, who said it posed a huge threat to local agriculture. The animal was found creeping across a Brisbane shipping container yard and identified as a giant African snail, an East African pest capable of growing up to 30 cm (12 inches) long and one kg (2.2 lb) in weight.