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Farmers are urging immigration reform in order to address labour shortages and rising food costs
As rising production costs continue to roil the agriculture sector, farmers from across the country are uniting in support of sweeping immigration reform, which they claim may ease labour shortages and reduce food prices.
The Farm Workforce Modernization Act, which has already been appr...
US farmers experience severe chemical shortages
According to Reuters, US farmers have reduced their use of common weedkillers, looked for alternatives to popular fungicides, and altered their planting schedules as a result of ongoing shortages of agricultural chemicals that could reduce yields.
At a time when global grain supplies ar...
Australian Farmers Protest Biden's Methane Pledge
Farmers in Australia have cautioned their prime minister not to hurry into joining Vice President Joe Biden's worldwide methane pact. The arrangement was brokered by Vice President Joe Biden. According to the National Farmers' Federation, joining the United States in its effort to reduce ...
Afghan farmers and herders face drought conditions
The UN's Food and Agricultural Organization said that Afghanistan's farmers and herders are facing catastrophic and famine-like conditions and their needs will continue to rise with the onset of winter.
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- Farmers in Afghanistan face sca...
Prime Minister Modi announces that 3 farm laws will be cancelled
Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a stunning announcement today, just ahead of key state elections. The Prime Minister addressed the nation at 9 am today and announced a repeal of the three contentious farm laws.
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- PM Modi makes stunning annou...
KubeKo box helps to convert waste into compost for Ivory Coast farmers
Farmers in Ivory Coast can now convert agricultural by-products into compost for their fields by using Award-winning waste converters.
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- KubeKo box converts waste into compost
- The team has sold 50 composters to Ivorian cocoa, ...
Meghalaya Minister to get awarded for 'Vegan Leather' initiative by PETA
Meghalaya government recently announced that they are working on production of vegan leather made from pineapples.
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- PETA awards Progressive Business Concept Award to a minister in Meghalaya
- Meghalaya to produce vegan leather from p...
National Dairy Development Board developed e- GOPALA application launched
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- The e-GOPALA application was launched by Union Minister on Saturday
- This application will help farmers in buying and selling of disease-free germplasm
Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Parshottam ...
BAYER EXTENDED SUPPORT TO HEALTHCARE WORKERS
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- Bayer India, the Global life sciences major, has announced that it will help local communities, healthcare workers, farmers, businesses, and employees in India as part of the COVID relief initiative.
- Bayer is planning to convert its nitrog...
US URGES INDIAN GOVERNMENT TO RESUME TALKS WITH FARMERS OVER NEW FARM LAWS
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• The US embassy located in New Delhi on Thursday called on the Indian government to resume dialogue with the enraged farmers
• The protest that started peacefully took an ugly turn on January 26 after some protestors entered the Red Fort in the national c...
AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT WANTS KIWI WORKERS TO WORK ON AUSTRALIAN FARMS
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- Another promoting advertisement to draw New Zealanders to Australia to help pick foods grown from the ground is the most recent endeavor to attempt to counterbalance a potential work lack emergency for Australian ranchers
The mission...
THAI FARMER'S PLIGHT OVER THEIR LAND AND TITLES
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- Somruedee Bunthonglek has not recovered for bullet injuries when her husband drew a truck where he escaped death a year after her dad was shot dead on a similar public homestead in southern Thailand.
The dark truck, with about six sh...
ILL EFFECTS OF LOCKDOWN: FRUIT FARMERS WILL SUFFER LOSSES WORTH RS 7,000 CRORE
Nationwide lockdown due to coronavirus pandemic has caused freight and logistic industry to stand still, as result of this fruits cultivating farmers in India may suffer losses worth $1 billion or Rs 7,000 crore.
The current season is extremely important for fruit growing farmers in ...
200+ conventional variations of rice retained by Bengal Farmers
Das is a member of the Amarkanan Rural Socio-Environmental Welfare Society, a 50-member strong farmer-run company. Narendra Singh Tomar, Minister of Agriculture and Farmers ' Welfare, acknowledged their efforts. He gave them the Indian Plant Genome Saviour Community Awards of the Council of A...
2020 NO ONION TEAR: PRICES TO GO DOWN BY 80%
Indian exponential onion price rise will come to a halt, with fresh supplies of the pungent vegetable to hit the markets in January 2020. It is estimated that the prices can become as low as 20-25 Rupees per kilogram from mid-January. That’s more than 80% below record price.
A maj...
Indian Farmers Now Exploring the International Market
There are generous open doors for the Indian rural and prepared nourishment segment, which saw a development of 7 percent to Rs 1.28 lakh crore in the 2018-19 monetary years. This expansion has been slanted as items like dairy, heartbeats, and sugar have seen development though wheat and non-basm...
UP offers farmers insurances; private firms left out of the deal
The general insurance sector of the nation of India has been changing completely, and we think that the nation will be seeing some major changes in the sector very soon as the insurance habits of the nation are being changed. The major primary sector and the most influential growth aspect of the ...
Agriculture and insurances
The Insurance sector of India has been changing, but what has been changing in the agricultural insurance sector of the nation is what is intriguing to us the most. The insurance of agricultural lands and farms is a prime source of income for the insurance sector but is also the very unprofitable...
Landmark case against the government in Germany
Organic farmers in the country have lodged a landmark case against the German government for the climate policies approached by them; this is also the first of its kind in the country.
The farmers have petitioned the government in court sighting the adverse effects of climate change hav...
BRAZIL's FORWARD SOY SALES HIGHER THAN LAST YEAR - SAFRA
Forward income on Brazil's 2019/2020 soybean crop plants superior five percentage points, surpassing the historical average because of the period, pushed through a favorable trade dimension yet excessive establishment premiums, following agribusiness consultancy Safras & Mercado over ...