Hot cocoa prices bring sweet profits, danger to Ecuador producers
Buena Fe (Ecuador) (AFP) - Julia Avellan had been tempted to quit the cocoa business before prices unexpectedly exploded on ...
Thursday, June 19, 2025
Tag: agriculture
Argentina has surplus harvest, but farmers want more from Milei
Lobos (AFP) - In the pampas, Argentina's vast and fertile grasslands outside Buenos Aires, grain silos overflow with this year's ...
Argentina has surplus harvest, but farmers want more from Milei
Lobos (AFP) - In the pampas, Argentina's vast and fertile grasslands outside Buenos Aires, grain silos overflow with this year's ...
Pakistan farmers pin poor mango crop on climate change
Tando Allahyar (Pakistan) (AFP) - Pakistan's mangoes are normally a source of national pride and much-needed income, but farmers are ...
India’s onion farmers cry foul at politicians’ price recipe
Nashik (India) (AFP) - Almost every Indian meal requires an onion -- one of the cooking essentials along with sugar ...
Deathtrap cable cars spook Turkey’s intrepid tea farmers
Rize (Turkey) (AFP) - You need to be part daredevil to live in the spectacularly steep hills overlooking the Black ...
Finland’s wizards making food out of thin air
Vantaa (Finland) (AFP) - At a factory in Finland, the "farmers of the future" are making a new food protein ...
A gloomy season for Ethiopia’s ‘green gold’ at the khat market
Aweday (Ethiopia) (AFP) - "We call it green gold," says Ramadan Youssouf, a khat trader in the Ethiopian town of ...
Cambodia’s famed Kampot pepper withers in scorching heatwave
Kampot (Cambodia) (AFP) - Farmer Chhim Laem shakes his head as he walks between long rows of dead bushes, their ...
Brazil floods strike blow to powerful agriculture sector
Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Floodwaters in Brazil have swallowed up soybean fields and farming equipment, cutting off roads, livestock ...
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