Agriculture News
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U.S. President Donald Trump may have bitten off more than he can chew - especially if he thinks the U.S. can beat China in a tit-for-tat trade war. Beijing has previous trade war experience and a lot of tactics at its disposal.
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By AFP
Bratislava -
Slovakia's president on Wednesday called on the government to address the demands of farmers who drove their tractors into the capital to protest against irregularities in EU farm subsidy payments first made public by murdered journalist Jan Kuciak.
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By AFP
Warsaw -
Poland's prime minister on Wednesday warned of "very significant" crop losses as the EU country scrambled to help farmers struggling to cope with an unusual spring drought amid soaring temperatures.
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Generations of farmers have relied on knowledge and family expertise to grow food, but the sector is set for a surge of disruption at the hands of made-in-Canada artificial intelligence-powered systems.
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By AFP
New York -
US farmers find themselves in the crosshairs of a trade war with China and others launched by President Donald Trump, who was elected with the support of many in rural America.
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By AFP
Warsaw -
Poland's veterinary service on Friday recalled some 4.3 million eggs contaminated with an antibiotic, just days after Dutch eggs were pulled from supermarket shelves in Germany.
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By AFP
New York -
Responding to signs of rising despair in rural America over a farming downturn exacerbated by the current trade war fears, agricultural leaders are mobilizing to try to prevent another suicide crisis.
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This month saw the inaugural East Africa Digital Conference and Exhibition, focused on realizing the benefits of the digital transformation of farming for the continent. This includes artificial intelligence and automation.
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New technology is re-shaping the approach to agriculture and it can potentially deliver many benefits, including improved production. These innovations are particularly of use to low income countries.
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By AFP
Abidjan -
Famous for its cocoa and coffee, the Ivory Coast has drawn up an ambitious five-year plan for the cashew industry, seeking to modernise production in a sector where it is already the world's number-one exporter.
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A technological solution to over-use of agricultural chemicals is there. An artificial intelligence-powered robotic weed hunter can potentially reduce the need for herbicides, as well as genetically modified crops.
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By AFP
Sydney -
Horrific footage of dead and dying sheep on ships bound for the Middle East has prompted sweeping reforms to Australia's live export trade, but Canberra stopped short of an outright ban Thursday.
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By AFP
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Over the past decade Chinese investors have conquered dozens of chateaux in Bordeaux, France's famed wine-growing region.
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Around 550 years ago, members of the Chimu empire, whose lands encompassed a stretch of desert coast in northern Peru, gathered more than 140 children and 200 baby llamas on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean and slaughtered them all.
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By AFP
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Abu Ali carefully crank-starts a generator to pump water from a well out into his parched field in southern Iraq. There used to be no need for a well in his village, but a creeping drought is now threatening agriculture and livelihoods in the area.
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By AFP
Paris -
Could we soon be forced to do without a glass of orange juice or a slice of grapefruit at breakfast? The answer is unfortunately yes.
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By AFP
Nest -
On a field deep in Greek farm country north of Athens, Suzan from Syria is smiling over an onion patch.
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A boundary that divides the humid eastern U.S. and the dry western Plains appears to have shifted 140 miles to the east over the past century due to global warming, new research suggests. How will this affect farming and agriculture in the years to come?
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By AFP
Notre-dame-des-landes -
Police said hundreds of activists attacked officers on Sunday ahead of a peaceful rally to protest the forced closure of an anti-capitalist camp in western France.
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By AFP
Notre-dame-des-landes -
Police said hundreds of activists attacked officers on Sunday ahead of a peaceful rally to protest the forced closure of an anti-capitalist camp in western France.
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By AFP
La Roda De Andaluc -
The US flag still flutters next to others in front of the AgroSevilla factory, the world's biggest exporter of black olives based in southern Spain.
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By AFP
Washington -
President Donald Trump said Monday negotiators were "fairly close" to resolving their differences over the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement but an outright US withdrawal was still possible.
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By AFP
Sydney -
An export ship due to carry more than 50,000 sheep to the Middle East has been blocked from leaving Australia after secret footage emerged of distressed animals dying and struggling to breathe in filthy conditions.
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By AFP
Kuala Lumpur -
Cows in a conservative Malaysian state could be played Koranic recitals in the hope it will help them relax and improve the quality of their beef, a senior official said Thursday.
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By AFP
Rome -
Current food production methods are harming the planet while failing to provide millions of the world's poor with enough to eat, the UN food agency warned Tuesday.
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By AFP
Ajaccio -
A deadly bacterial disease with no known cure that ravaged olive groves in southern Italy three years ago has been detected in the French island of Corsica, industry officials said Tuesday.
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Chicago -
A technological advance for the agribusiness. A new Ag robot has been developed, which speeds data collection and has the capability of analyzing crops as they grow.
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By AFP
Petorca -
Karina Torres has spent more than seven years without running water in her home in central Chile. Yet, across the road, water flows in abundance to irrigate thousands of hectares of avocados.
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By AFP
Bras -
In a world where water risks running short for many, the especially thirsty agricultural industry must learn how to manage the vital resource better, experts said Tuesday.A day after the United Nations warned that 5.
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By AFP
Paris -
Bird populations across an eerily quiet French countryside have collapsed, on average, by a third over the last decade-and-a-half, alarmed researchers reported on Tuesday.
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Agriculture Image
A smog-filled street in Peking, China. Berserkerus
Top 20 Commodities for 2013-2015 California Department of Food and Agriculure
Family members peeling cassava on Stephania Kunda's farm in Zambia. AATF
Green vegetable fields in January around Qilinpu Village, Qilin Town, Jiangning District, Nanjing. Vmenkov
EcoRobotix claims its robo-brigade will decrease total herbicide use by a factor of 20. EcoRobotix
Burial chamber of Sennedjem, Scene: Plowing farmer.
Circa 1200 BCE
Did the Anthropocene start with the advent of agriculture? The Yorck Project
A prototype of the dual-arm robot system during the first field tests. Fraunhofer IPK
Monitoring a crop using the Internet of Things. Kakaxi
Dave Redden coordinates the agricultural program at Hanna Boys Center in Sonoma, CA. This year they will be participating in the livestock competition both county fairs of Sonoma and Napa and will also be selling the livestock they raised. Photo by Jim Deely, courtesy of Hanna Boys Center, Sonoma, CA
Harvest time in China. Steve Evans / Bangalore, India
A prototype of the dual-arm robot system during the first field tests. Fraunhofer IPK
Growing vegetables using robotics. Bowery Farms
Parched soil by the White Nile in Khartoum, Sudan. United Nations/World Bank/ Arne Hoel
Grape vines in Crimea.
June 16, 2003 Thisisbossi
screenshot from les éleveurs de porcs bretons website
Transgenic or GM corn in a field in Kenya. In an effort to reduce corn stem-borer infestations, corporate and public researchers partnered to develop local transgenic Bacillus thuringiensis corn varieties suitable for Kenya Dave Hoisington/CIMMYT
Tanzania's landscape Fanny Scherter
Hanna Boys Center hopes that the fundraiser set for July 13 will become an annual event that will make the agricultural program a permanent part of the Hanna curriculum. Photo by Jim Deely, courtesy of Hanna Boys Center, Sonoma, CA
Noted Indian agri-scientist Prof Swaminathan is attending a workshop on Agriculture at Tripura, India. Chief Minister of Tripura at centre and other dignatories also attended the workshop.
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