Tag: agriculture

• Friday, September 6th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Uruguay farmers gathered in Montevideo to protest against the government: clashes with the police

  

  Horses, tractors and hundreds of rural producers from all over the country gathered in front of the Uruguay Parliament on Thursday to denounce the problems that the agricultural sector is experiencing and criticize the government for not listening to the proposals of the Un Solo Uruguay (One Uruguay) movement. The political, non-partisan movement brings together producers and actors of the rural environment and the interior of the country.

• Wednesday, August 7th 2019 - 09:00 UTC

  UK police using drones to watch livestock at night to prevent illegal sheep butchery

  

  Operation Stock is Northamptonshire Police's response to such incidents. Using the drone’s thermal image technology and flying no higher than 400ft, its operators can monitor large rural areas.

• Tuesday, June 25th 2019 - 09:07 UTC

  Argentina sowing what is forecasted as an excellent crop of wheat, some 22 million tons

  

  Argentine farmers are expected to plant 6.5 million hectares of wheat in the 2019/20 season, the government said in a report, citing good rainfall as the reason for the increase from its previous forecast of 6.46 million hectares.

• Saturday, June 15th 2019 - 08:43 UTC

  Good sales prospects from China for Argentina's 56 million tons of soybeans

  

  The soybean harvest in Argentina for the 2018-19 crop year is almost complete, according to the Buenos Aires Grain Exchange. The forecast for total production was the second-highest in 19 years at 56 million mt, up 48% year on year due to a better than expected yield of 3.35 mt/hectare, BAGE said.

• Thursday, May 30th 2019 - 08:37 UTC

  Australia's drought conditions to persist for at least three months, forcing wheat import

  

  Hot, dry weather will persist across Australia's east coast for at least another three months, the country's weather bureau said on Thursday, in a forecast that threatens to severely crimp agricultural production.

• Monday, May 27th 2019 - 20:48 UTC

  UN: Global Action Plan to boost family farming and achieve zero hunger

  

  Family farmers have an important role in the global fight to end hunger and promote a healthy diet, according to the President of the United Nations General Assembly, María Fernanda Espinosa. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) states that, in a context in which almost one million plants and animal species are endangered by the impact of man, traditional agriculture can make a contribution essential to safeguard agricultural biodiversity.

• Thursday, May 23rd 2019 - 06:30 UTC

  May 20 has become Bee Day in recognition for this outstanding pollinator

  

  For centuries, bees have labored the world’s fields without gaining much recognition for their contributions to food production and biodiversity. Pollinators such as bees, birds and bats, affect 35% of the world's crop production, increasing outputs of 87 of the leading food crops worldwide, plus many plant-derived medicines.

• Friday, May 3rd 2019 - 09:10 UTC

  Agricultural machine makers anxiously waiting for Brazil's new farm credit package

  

  Uncertainty surrounding Brazil’s new farm credit package is worrying executives from the world’s largest agricultural machine makers since a delay on the definition of the program could hurt their sales.

• Friday, April 26th 2019 - 09:37 UTC

  Brazilian ministry asks for an end to the list of endangered aquatic species

  

  Brazil's agriculture minister has asked the minister of the environment to suspend the country's list of threatened and endangered aquatic species. “It's hurting fishermen”, Jorge Seif Júnior argued and will have a significant negative impact on the fishing economy.

• Wednesday, April 17th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  China interested in more Brazilian meat and increasing investment

  

  China is planning to allow more Brazilian meat imports following high-level talks set for May, the Chinese ambassador to Brazil said on Monday. Yang Wanming declined to comment on how many meat processing plants could be approved to export to China but said the issue would be discussed when Brazil Agriculture Minister Tereza Cristina Dias travels to China in May.