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The administration of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has provided extensive support to Filipino farmers, resulting in significant improvements in agricultural production. The Department of Agriculture has reported that millions of farmers have benefited from seedlings, machinery, fertilizer subsidies, and crop insurance, leading to higher mechanization levels in rice farms.
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The President of the Thai Cassava Trade Association, Mr. Amnat Sukprasongpol, is worried about the impact of Trump's 36% tariff on Thai tapioca exports to the US. The tariff will make it difficult for Thailand to compete with its main competitor, Vietnam, which has a 20% tariff. The
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Farmers in Namibia face significant challenges due to climate change, including erratic rainfall, recurring droughts, and crop and livestock losses. To create resolutions that can transform their farming businesses into resilient enterprises, farmers are encouraged to implement coping strategies that can withstand the effects of climate change. Livestock farming, being
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African women livestock farmers face significant barriers in accessing formal financing due to the informal nature of their livestock and the lack of reliable documentation. However, Jenny Ambukiyenyi Onya, a young Congolese engineer, has developed a solution using artificial intelligence (AI) to transform animals into bankable assets. Her company, Neotex.
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Recent inspections in Devon and Somerset, England, have found that 20 out of 21 farms visited as part of a Food Standards Agency-funded project met water quality standards for livestock. The checks were conducted by the Heart of the South West Trading Standards rural team, who collected water samples from
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Climate change is ravaging crop production, biodiversity, and food security in rural communities, particularly for women farmers who already face intersecting challenges. Despite the growing urgency of the situation, only 18% of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals are on track to be met by 2030, highlighting the need
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As part of their commitment to sustainable agriculture, PepsiCo and Cargill have announced a strategic collaboration to promote regenerative agriculture practices across 240,000 acres of Iowa farmland by 2030. This joint effort will focus on the companies' shared corn supply chain in Iowa, where Cargill sources from local
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Small-scale farmers in Abuja's Garki District are facing a severe crisis due to the unaffordable prices and scarcity of improved maize seeds, which are essential for boosting productivity and food security. The struggling farmers, who rely heavily on saved seeds from previous harvests, are lamenting the lack of
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The Welsh Government has rolled out its Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS), seven years in the making, replacing EU-era subsidies and promising to reward farmers for "public good" practices. The plan requires farmers to agree to 12 actions, including soil health planning, habitat maintenance, and online courses, in exchange
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After years of advocacy from Senator Rick Scott, the Department of Commerce has officially withdrawn from and terminated the 2019 Tomato Suspension Agreement, a move aimed at restoring fairness for Florida's growers. The decision comes after a letter and call campaign by Senator Scott, who pushed the Trump
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Cyprus Minister of Agriculture, Maria Panayiotou, highlighted the country's severe drought affecting key production sectors, resulting in losses of up to 100% for the third consecutive year. The Minister emphasized the need for flexible support measures and additional financial tools beyond the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to aid
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Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has written a letter to chief ministers, highlighting complaints that retailers are not selling subsidised conventional fertilisers like urea and diammonium phosphate (DAP) to farmers unless they purchase nano-fertilisers or biostimulants. Chouhan has asked the state governments to stop the forced tagging of nano-fertilisers
