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France's Agriculture ministry ploughs in €60m to help struggling organic farmers

France’s Agriculture Ministry has announced an additional €60 million in emergency aid for organic farmers facing a sharp slump in sales of organic food, but the sector says it’s far from enough.

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PPRP pledges title deed conversion for poor farmers

The Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) is promising to give title deeds to Sor Por Kor landholders in a bid to alleviate poverty in rural areas, according to PPRP MP for Phayao, Thamanat Prompow on Monday.

Bangkok Post

Lula's changes at Brazil farm ministry draw cries from food security agency

Changes by the new government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to a federal agency tasked with upholding the sanitary standards of Brazilian agricultural products are drawing criticism from civil servants in the Agriculture Ministry, documents show.

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Tunisian Droughts Threaten Food Security

Three years of drought have dried up Tunisian reservoirs, threatening harvests that are critical to the country's battered economy and pushing the government to raise tap water prices for homes and businesses. Since September only 110 million cubic meters of rain fell in Tunisia, about a fifth of the normal…

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Rice exports up 39.1% y/y in first 9 months

Thailand’s rice exports were up 39.1% in the first nine months of this year, compared to the same period a year earlier, the Agriculture Ministry said on Monday.

Bangkok Post

Kharif sowing nears to end; paddy acreage down by 5.51%

The total sown area under kharif crops declined 1.24% to 1,097.57 lakh hectares so far this kharif season, as against 1,111.36 lakh hectares in the year-ago period

The Hindu

Morocco Plans $213 Million Farming Project in Western Sahara

Morocco is seeking investors for a $213 million agriculture project in the disputed territory of Western Sahara irrigated by a wind-powered desalination plant. The project aims to turn 52 square kilometers of unused land near the city of Dakhla into farms growing fruit, vegetables and animal feed, according to an…

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RTIs pending with Cooperation Ministry since 2021, say activists

The Union Ministry of Cooperation, set up in July 2021, is responsible for multi-State cooperative societies

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Ukraine's farmers face Russia's blockade and explosives on their lands this harvest

Farmers in Ukraine begin to harvest this year's wheat, barley and rapeseed crops as diplomats try to negotiate an end to Russia's Black Sea blockade of exports.

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Severe Water Shortages Strain Wheat Harvest in Iraq

Salah Chelab crushed a husk of wheat plucked from his sprawling farmland south of Baghdad and inspected its seeds in the palm of one hand. They were several grams lighter than he hoped. "It’s because of the water shortages," he said, the farm machine roaring behind him, cutting and gathering…

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Severe water shortages strain wheat harvest in Iraq

Iraqi farmers say they are paying the price for a government decision to irrigate only 50% of agricultural lands, due to low water levels

The Independent UK

Low rainfall, hot weather threatens French cereal production

An unusually dry period at the beginning of the year has led to water restrictions in 15 departments across France, prompting fears of a drop in winter cereal yields.

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Egypt Eyes Adding India as a Wheat Import Origin This Month

Egypt's Supply Ministry has confirmed that it is considering this month adding wheat from India to 16 other national import origins accepted by its state grains buyer, as it seeks to shore up purchases disrupted by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. A delegation from Egypt's Agriculture Ministry is in India "looking…

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Solar power fizzles

Early this month, Deputy Agriculture Minister Praphat Phothasuthon unveiled an energy-saving project with the fancy name "Solar Panels NFT for Thai Farmers".

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Bird flu discovered at Dutch farm; over 160,000 chickens to be culled

Authorities have discovered an outbreak of what they suspect is the highly-contagious bird flu strain at a farm in the Netherlands and about 168,000 chickens will be culled, the Agriculture Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

Bangkok Post

DoA to instruct farmers how to grow cannabis

The Department of Agriculture (DoA) is producing handbooks on growing cannabis as part of efforts to register wider varieties of the indigenous plant, according to the Agriculture Ministry.

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