agriculture

The devastating wildfires that have scorched Hawaii and destroyed much of the town of Lahaina on the island of Maui have been fueled by invasive alien grassland species that have grown on abandoned farms that used to cultivate pineapple and other crops.

Ukraine, once the ‘breadbasket’ of Europe, will need at least twenty years for its farming sector to recover after the war with Russia.

Ukrainian farmers are already feeling the pain of the disappearing reservoir, said Dmytro Neveselyi, mayor of the village of Maryinske.

The EU ended an internal standoff over Ukraine farm imports by granting five member states the right to temporarily ban problematic produce.

A glut of Ukrainian grain is depressing commodity prices. Some have banned imports to protect their own farmers, but the EU is outraged.

“You guys are worried about climate change,” Justin Trudeau said while addressing the Canadian Federation of Agriculture on Monday.

The beef cattle inventory in the United States is at its lowest point since 1962, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

The issue of food security has been “criminally neglected” by the European Union amid the ongoing fertiliser shortage, an MEP has claimed.

Filipinos visiting the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are packing their suitcases with an unusual souvenir: onions. Filipino cooking uses a lot of onions, and inflation is making them unaffordable back home, but the UAE sells them for a fraction of the price.

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends First,” National Black Farmers Association President John Boyd Jr. criticized new water regulations adopted by the Biden EPA and argued that the rules will cost farmers money and will

The plan by New Zealand’s left-wing government to tax livestock farts plus burps to spare the environment from emissions of methane and nitrous oxide is still angering the nation’s farmers who see it as a war on their livelihoods.

The Dutch government’s plans to buy out and shut down thousands of farms has been branded as the “Great Reset in full force”.

The agricultural economy continues to shrink across President Joe Biden’s (D) America as inflation burdens the industry.

Dutch schoolchildren have been fed mealworms as part of a behavioural change programme backed by the government.

New Zealand’s left-wing government on Tuesday proposed taxing the gasses farm animals create from burping and peeing as part of a plan to reset agricultural production and “tackle climate change.”

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday urged governments and private sectors worldwide to allow Russian food and fertilizer “unimpeded access” to the global market as they are “not subject to sanctions” imposed on Moscow by the U.S. government and its allies in response to Russia’s latest war with Ukraine, Turkey’s Hürriyet Daily News reported.

The head of a major fast food chain in Ireland has expressed concern that the country may face food shortages this coming winter, telling the general public that they should stock up.

Ireland’s green agenda-loving government is set to impose an emissions cut of around 28 per cent on Irish farmers, a report has claimed.

The EU is now in the “contingency planning” stages regarding a potential coming migrant surge, a Commissioner for the bloc has confirmed.

Europe’s border force is reported as bracing itself for more “waves” of mass migration, as the developing world goes hungry as a result of the war in Ukraine.

Farmers protesting the EU’s green agenda in the Netherlands have turned down a meeting with their country’s government over poor terms.

A boy protesting the enforcement of the EU’s green agenda in the Netherlands is said to have narrowly avoided being killed after being shot at by police.

Britain’s ministry of defence has predicted that Ukrainian food exports will fall by nearly two-thirds this year.

A county in Florida has gone on high alert after a giant African land snail has emerged half a century after it was thought the species was eradicated in the state.

Argentine truck drivers’ unions called for a nationwide strike on Wednesday, causing miles-long road closures and other transportation disruptions that threatened to jeopardize the country’s food supply during its peak harvest season, Reuters reported.

A lettuce shortage in Australia recently forced some Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) restaurants to replace iceberg lettuce on their sandwiches with cabbage, Australia’s Seven News network reported on Tuesday.

Researchers at China’s Nankai University claimed this week that they successfully cloned pigs through an entirely automated process for the first time in March, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Thursday.

Sri Lanka’s socialist government announced plans on Monday to create a private agriculture sector to help alleviate famine amid a national financial crisis that has caused food shortages since March, Sri Lanka’s News First website reported.

President Donald Trump’s low-migration policies have helped push U.S. farms to invest in a new generation of labor-saving, high-wage “revolutionary” farm robots, according to the New York Times.

India, which is the world’s second-largest importer of fertilizer, received about 200,000 tons of fertilizers from Russia in the month of May, Russia’s state-run TASS news agency reported on Tuesday.

Massive flocks of the red-billed quelea bird — a notorious African crop pest — have decimated grain harvests across farms in western Zimbabwe in recent weeks, causing fears of a local food shortage in the near future, the online newspaper New Zimbabwe reported Monday.

A Cuban state-run newspaper recently promoted an article touting the alleged benefits of using human urine as an agricultural fertilizer, the independent website Cubanet reported on Wednesday.

Germany’s Minister for Agriculture has called on EU red tape to be cut in order to allow farmers to grow more wheat.

Nigeria’s government recently purchased potash, a raw ingredient used to blend agricultural fertilizer, from Canada after its traditional supply of Russian potash was disrupted due to Western sanctions against Moscow in response to its latest war with Ukraine, Reuters reported Tuesday.

Reuters on Monday cited shipping data showing at least 24 ships filled with 678,000 tonnes of Russian fertilizer are en route to Brazil, despite heavy sanctions imposed after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February.

The Russian embassy in New Delhi last week asked India for help with obtaining certain food supplies blocked by international sanctions imposed after the invasion of Ukraine. The Federation of Indian Export Organizations (FIEO) obliged by arranging a meeting between Indian food and pharmaceutical sellers and Russian buyers.