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Indonesia denied claims that officials grew cannabis near Mount Semeru following the release of drone footage, asserting the marijuana farm was raided in 2024.
YANGON: In Kachin State, the 2024 rainy season brought record-breaking floods along the Ayeyarwady River, leaving behind thick layers of silt but failing to produce crops, according to local farmers.
FOR the first time in four generations, the Raines family in Texas did not plant a single cotton seed last year.
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will launch a nationwide census of nuisance wildlife, including monkeys and peacocks, as part of an effort to tackle the increasing threat to agriculture, the government said on Wednesday (March 5).
NAIROBI, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- Several African countries have deposited indigenous seeds in a Norway-based seed bank to buffer food systems against future risks, including climate change and conflicts.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) -India is set to see above-average temperatures in February after a warmer than normal January, the weather office said on Friday, posing a risk to key winter-sown crops such as wheat, rapeseed and chickpeas.
KASTANIES, Greece (Reuters) - On an unusually balmy January day, Dimitris Marinoglou ploughed his field in northern Greece fearing the worst: that water supplies from neighbouring Bulgaria that have kept his family's crops alive for decades will dry up come summer.
Palm oil output in Malaysia fell the most since 2016 as heavy rain and floods disrupted harvesting in the world’s second-biggest grower.
SHANGHAI: Bayer Crop Science, one of the three divisions of Germany-based life sciences enterprise Bayer, is bullish about the future of China’s agricultural sector, citing the country’s economic resilience, technological advances and commitment to sustainable farming practices as key growth drivers.
ALOR SETAR: Padi farmers in the country are urged to register for the Padi Planting Takaful Scheme (skim takaful tanaman padi) to enable them to receive compensation benefits if their crops are affected by disasters, including floods.
PAKA: “The water rose so quickly, unlike anything I have seen before,” said farmer Mohd Noor Besar, who suffered losses of more than RM20,000 when his maize and okra crops were destroyed in the recent floods.
The importance of AI’s role in various industries, including agriculture, is noted in the National AI Roadmap 2021-2025.
MANILA: Six powerful storms late in the season that ravaged crops and drenched vast areas of the Philippines have put the nation on track for record rice imports and raised concerns over elevated food inflation.
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US Crop Watch producers have all but wrapped up their 2024 corn and soybean harvests, which progressed quickly amid persistent dry weather, and overall yields wound up a bit better than average.
KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Industry Ministry should explore compensation or subsidies for farmers whose crops sustained wildlife damage, says an assemblyman.
TO BOLSTER climate resilience and support underprivileged communities, University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM) and Sime Darby Foundation (YSD) launched the UNM-YSD food processing pilot facility.
Blazing flames light the sky as Indian farmer Ali Sher burns his fields to clear them for new crops, a common but illegal practice that is fuelling deadly pollution killing millions.
A tropical storm that strengthened over the weekend made landfall as a typhoon in the northern Philippines, as the country grapples with millions of dollars in crop damage from a series of relentless cyclones this year.
