Panama hopes to secure return of US banana giant Chiquita
Panama City (AFP) - Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino will meet with representatives of US banana giant Chiquita Brands in ...
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
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Vietnamese rice grower helps tackle Cuba’s food shortage
Los Palacios (Cuba) (AFP) - Outside Havana, a combine belonging to a private Vietnamese company is harvesting rice, directly farming ...
Vietnamese rice grower helps tackle Cuba’s food shortage
Los Palacios (Cuba) (AFP) - Outside Havana, a combine belonging to a private Vietnamese company is harvesting rice, directly farming ...
For Argentine farmers, Milei’s free-market reforms fall short
SAN PEDRO (Argentina) (AFP) - Twenty months after Argentina's President Javier Milei came to power vowing to lead a free-market ...
Taiwan’s orchid growers dig in as US tariffs shoot up
Houbi (Taiwan) (AFP) - Since the start of US President Donald Trump's global trade war, Taiwanese orchid grower Lee Tsang-yu ...
Taiwan’s orchid growers dig in as US tariffs shoot up
Houbi (Taiwan) (AFP) - Since the start of US President Donald Trump's global trade war, Taiwanese orchid grower Lee Tsang-yu ...
Rwanda bees being wiped out by pesticides
Kigali (AFP) - The use of pesticides in East Africa, some sold by European firms despite being banned in the ...
New Zealand farmers battle pine forests to ‘save our sheep’
Wellington (AFP) - New Zealand sheep farmers are fighting to stop the loss of pasture to fast-spreading pine plantations, which ...
Australia lifts trade barriers on US beef
Sydney (AFP) - Australia said Thursday it would lift trade barriers on beef from the United States, removing a major ...
Champagne makers cut harvest as global outlook fizzles out
Lille (France) (AFP) - France's champagne producers said Wednesday they were cutting the amount of grapes to be made into ...
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