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2023.01.25
Is the UK heading towards a food supply crisis?
Herds and flocks are being reduced to cut costs in a bid to keep businesses going, while farms are facing a lack of manpower post-Brexit.
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2023.01.25
Sugar beet farmers cry foul after French U-turn on bee-killing pesticide
A sugar beet leaf infected with jaundice disease spread by aphids at a farm in Oye-Plage, northern France, in August 2020.
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2023.01.24
As the pace of urbanization quickens in Asia-Pacific, so too does the threat of urban food insecurity
In 2021, 396 million people in the region were undernourished and an estimated 1.05 billion people suffered from moderate or severe food insecurity.
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2023.01.24
North Indian cold wave impacts two major Rabi crops in different ways
The cold wave in the first fortnight of this month has remained favourable for the wheat crop.
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2023.01.24
U.S. raises 'grave concerns' over Mexico's anti-GMO farm policies
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai attends the APEC Leaders' Informal Dialogue with Guests during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit 2022, in Bangkok, Thailand November 18.
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2023.01.23
Plan for £100m campus at Royal Agricultural University released
Prof McCaffery believes the Innovation Village could help British farmers in the future.
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2023.01.23
Climate change: Punjab's cotton, maize yield to dip by 11-13% by 2050, says report
A rise in minimum temperature is harmful to the yield of rice, maize, and cotton.
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2023.01.23
Why the ground under Colorado solar panels is ripe for growing food
A Republican lawmaker has joined the previously Democrat-only push for solar agriculture, or agrivoltaics, priming Colorado to become a national leader.
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2023.01.22
Rajasthan govt to rent out drones to farmers to help spray fertilisers, insecticides
Progressive farmers of the state have already started using drones in agriculture.
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2023.01.21
'Rural is changing, not dying'
Ben Winchester is hoping to flip the script on the negative narrative surrounding rural communities.