Rice prices up 91 pct year-on-year in Japan
Tokyo (AFP) - Rice prices in Japan soared 90. 7 percent in July year-on-year, official data showed Friday, but the ...
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Nestle unveils method to boost cocoa yields as climate change hits
Geneva (AFP) - Faced with climate change diminishing farmers' yields, Nestle announced Wednesday that it was working on a technique ...
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 ...
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 ...
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