Business 'booms' for rural crafts
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Craftspeople could soon overtake farmers as the biggest contributors to the rural economy, a report says.
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By James Hannah  MARTINSVILLE  --  Tucked away in the den of his 127-year-old farmhouse, Ed Winkle huddles over his computer.   The screen's soft glow lights up his eyeglasses, reflecting messages about tractors, corn hybrids and crop insurance.
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By Ian Swanson Scottish Political Editor  BUSINESS is booming for Scotland's organic farms.   New figures published today show Scottish farmers are now producing enough to meet 70 per cent of the demand for local organic food - twice the level five years ago.
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Rural and deprived communities worldwide are benefiting from the increased availability of computers.
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The Renegade Craft Fair, the kind of alternative sale where cross-stitch is cool, is in town.
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A growing number of home-based business are no longer trying make their small operations look bigger.
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Rural roads are being traveled by more and more people, leading to an increase in fatal wildlife-related crashes.
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A growing number of artists have starting selling one-a-day creations online.
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Quite a few production houses are venturing into this new industry.
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Rural hospitals, car insurers and furniture stores aren't exactly the first businesses that come to mind when talking about growth stocks, but fund manager Richard Aster Jr. picks through such sleepy industries to find growing companies that others have ignored.
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Microlenders have been helping farmers buy a buffalo and women set up weaving businesses for nearly three decades in India, most successfully in the wealthier southern states.
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In southern Thailand where unemployment is high, thousands of people have been spending the past couple of weeks collecting paper cranes fired at their villages and towns from the air.
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By Blair Anthony Robertson, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 22--When Mark and Janet Thew bought their lot in Loomis in 1999 and built their Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired house the following year, they thought they were putting down roots in a rural paradise.
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China's computermakers tap vast rural market with simple tools and local officials' support.
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Help is hard to find on Essex County farms. Not enough people know how to operate heavy farm equipment either. Packers and sales help at the farm stand are tough to find, too.
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The number of migrant workers in rural England has grown by more than 200% in the last three years, a report says.
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Four companies based in the northwest suburbs recently received innovation awards from the Smaller Business Association of New England, a trade group headquartered in Waltham. They are: Ahura Scientific Inc. of Wilmington, an optical technology specialist; Volicon Inc. of Burlington, a supplier of broadcast technologies for streaming video content; SupplyScape Corp. of Woburn, whose software products are aimed at helping ...