{"id":5997,"date":"2011-09-19T14:38:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T13:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=5997"},"modified":"2011-09-21T14:49:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T13:49:36","slug":"pepsico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2011\/09\/19\/pepsico\/","title":{"rendered":"PepsiCo to Partner with China&#8217;s Ministry of Agriculture to Promote Sustainable Farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pepsico.com\/PressRelease\/PepsiCo-to-Partner-with-Chinas-Ministry-of-Agriculture-to-Promote-Sustainable-Fa09192011.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5998\" title=\"110921_pepsico\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/110921_pepsico.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) today announced that it has signed a  Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Agriculture of the  People&#8217;s Republic of China to promote sustainable agriculture projects  and accelerate the development of the Chinese countryside. As part of the joint initiative, PepsiCo and the Ministry of  Agriculture will build and operate demonstration farms that leverage the  most advanced irrigation, fertilization and crop management techniques.  \u00c2\u00a0They also will collaborate to promote best practices across China&#8217;s  farming system to improve yields, increase income levels and raise  living standards for farmers throughout the country. The partnership continues PepsiCo&#8217;s focus on investing in sustainable  agriculture development projects in China and it demonstrates the  company&#8217;s continued support for China&#8217;s 12th Five-Year Plan. PepsiCo is one of the largest agricultural enterprises in the world,  growing and using more than four million tons of potatoes for its  Frito-Lay snacks, 600,000 tons of oats for its Quaker food products, and  three million tons of oranges and other fruits and vegetables for its  Tropicana and other juice brands every year. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pepsico.com\/PressRelease\/PepsiCo-to-Partner-with-Chinas-Ministry-of-Agriculture-to-Promote-Sustainable-Fa09192011.html\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: China | Company: PepsiCo | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pepsico.com\/PressRelease\/PepsiCo-to-Partner-with-Chinas-Ministry-of-Agriculture-to-Promote-Sustainable-Fa09192011.html\" target=\"_blank\">PepsiCo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Agriculture of the People&#8217;s Republic of China to promote sustainable agriculture projects and accelerate the development of the Chinese countryside. As part of the joint initiative, PepsiCo and the Ministry of Agriculture will build and operate demonstration&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-5997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-pepsico","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5997"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=5997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}