Farmer-to-farmer approach helps sell new technology

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Ethiopia's Institute of Agricultural Research together with other agencies has undertaken a joint research to help farmers, particularly those from the vertisol areas in the highlands, increase their crop production. The research project was able to develop a new technology in the form of a broadbed-maker. The main advantage of the broadbed-maker is that farmers can prepare seedbeds even when the soil is still wet and compact, thus facilitating early sowing. This technology can greatly increase farm productionin the Ethiopian vertisols and raise labor productivity as well.

Innovations, Ethiopia, Soil management, Soil management (Agronomy), Agricultural innovations

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Desperation in Shanghai

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More than 30,000 people rushed to the Bank of China in Shanghai in Dec 1948 after the Nationalist government announced that it would issue depositors permits to buy gold bars for half the market rate. None of them knew that this was a government ploy to distract the great bulk of the nation's gold reserve to Formosa, later called Taiwan, where the Nationalist government was to take refuge. A stampede ensued outside the bank which was to result in scores of people being crushed to death and many others being injured.

Demonstrations and protests, Shanghai, China, Mobs

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Electronic bill payment: did you know?

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Members of the electric utility industry should become aware of several facts about electronic bills payment. Americans, for instance, receive a total of 18.2 billion bills annually. Billers spend between 85 cents to $1.50 to print, process and send each paper-based bill while sending and receiving an electronic bill costs a mere 40 cents. Banks are also expected to spend about $930 million each year on online banking services by 2002. .

Technology application, Collection (Accounting), Payment

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