Saudi Arabia saw a 41% decrease in barley imports in the first six months of the 2021-22 marketing year, according to a Global Agricultural Information Network report from the US Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS). FAS estimates imports at 2.36 million tonnes for the first half of the year, compared to 4 million tonnes during the same period
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Religious police in northern Nigeria’s city of Kano have destroyed nearly four milllion bottles of beer, on grounds that sale and consumption of alcohol is prohibited in the predominantly Muslim region. Sharia police called Hisbah often destroy alcohol and confiscated drugs, but the huge beer haul was one of the largest in a recently intensified crackdown. Hundreds of Hisbah offloaded
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Important knowledge for scientists and plant breeders Barley was one of the first grains to be cultivated. Barley is mainly used as animal fodder and serves as the raw material for producing malt from which beer and whiskey are made. Scientists from Carlsberg Research Laboratory have, together with other researchers from the International Barley Genome Sequencing Consortium, successfully finalized the
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