Author: Timothy Wahome (Timothy Wahome)

Spain: More than 120 researchers analyze in Salamanca the future of agriculture and the environment
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Spain: More than 120 researchers analyze in Salamanca the future of agriculture and the environment

The ‘1st International Agrienvironment Symposium’ (IAS2023) brings together from today in Salamanca researchers of excellence from various disciplines. This event, organized by the Unit of Excellence in Agricultural Production and Environment AGRIENVIRONMENT, of the University of Salamanca, is held at the Archbishop Fonseca College with the presence of more than 120 participants from institutions in...

Vietnam: Khánh Sơn durian price sets a historic peak
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Vietnam: Khánh Sơn durian price sets a historic peak

KHANH HOA: Khanh Son durian is preparing to enter the full harvest season, traders from all over the world flock to the gardens to deposit at the highest price ever. Durian prices increase day by day These days, durian farmers in Khanh Son district, Khanh Hoa province are busy taking care of their orchards to prepare for...

Fire hell: 220 hectares of rapeseed and grain burned down in Germany
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Fire hell: 220 hectares of rapeseed and grain burned down in Germany

News summary: Severe fires raged in Saxony-Anhalt over the weekend. Hundreds of hectares of rapeseed and grain have fallen victim to the flames. One of the biggest summer fires of the past few days ignited on Saturday near Mücheln in the Saalekreis. There, about 220 hectares were burned with rapeseed and grain. The extinguishing work took two days. Again and again, the fire flared up....

14.986 million tons! Hebei’s summer grain harvest realizes the area, yield & total output “three times”
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14.986 million tons! Hebei’s summer grain harvest realizes the area, yield & total output “three times”

. Food in hand, the heart does not panic. A few days ago, the Hebei Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs was informed that this year, Hebei Province’s summer grain harvest had tripled its production levels. The summer grain sowing area of 34.107 million mu (5.5 million acres), averaging a per-mu yield of 439.37 kilograms had a total output of...

São Paulo agribusiness registers US$ 10 billion surplus in the first half of 2023
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São Paulo agribusiness registers US$ 10 billion surplus in the first half of 2023

News brief: In line with the expected growth projections for the entire Latin American region, the Brazilian city-state’s agribusiness sector grew 6.4% in the first half of 2023 compared to the same period in 2022. São Paulo’s agribusiness recorded successive monthly surpluses this year and the final result of the semester showed a surplus of US $ 10.04...

Barley was an early crop
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A new Polish record in winter barley yields

News summary: Eventually reaping 11.268 tonnes per hectare of the Valhalla barley variety, a new barley farming partnership technology by PROCAM has managed to set a new yield record in Poland. Under the supervision of the Record Office, on July 12, 2023, as part of the PROCAM Yielding Champions League in Stróżew, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, a...

Spanish Subscribers of about 63,000 anti-drought policies to receive the supplementary subsidy to agricultural insurance from this Thursday the 13th
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Spanish Subscribers of about 63,000 anti-drought policies to receive the supplementary subsidy to agricultural insurance from this Thursday the 13th

News summary: In answer to a recent measure by the Government of Spain to award subscribing farmers to drought relief insurance, about tens of thousands of qualifying farmers will receive their subsidies from July 13.  Subscribers of about 63,000 agricultural insurance policies against drought will begin to receive, from this Thursday, July 13 and during the coming days, the...

Korea’s Farmers’ Newspaper and Nonghyup Economic Holdings hold “National Assembly Debate on Diversifying Livestock Manure Treatment and Use for Carbon Neutrality” 
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Korea’s Farmers’ Newspaper and Nonghyup Economic Holdings hold “National Assembly Debate on Diversifying Livestock Manure Treatment and Use for Carbon Neutrality” 

On July 12, Nonghyup Economic Holdings held a parliamentary debate at the National Assembly Museum to discuss various treatment methods for livestock manure in line with the carbon neutrality era and to respond to rapid market changes. Hosted by Nonghyup Economic Holdings, Farmers’ Newspaper, and the Korea Pork Association, the debate was co-hosted by lawmakers Lee Hae-gon and Kim...

Iranian wheat
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US wheat jumps after the attacks on the port of Odessa

The Russian attacks on the port of Odessa caused a rapid rise in US wheat prices on Tuesday. As the deadline for the agreement on the grain corridor in the Black Sea approaches, Russian drone attacks on the port of Odessa raise more than ever the question of its renewal after July 17. Wheat prices quickly went back into...

Li Jinxiang meets with Caliberta, chairman of the African Green Revolutionary Alliance
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Li Jinxiang meets with Caliberta, chairman of the African Green Revolutionary Alliance

News summary: the chief veterinarian officer in China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs meets chairman of the African Green Revolutionary Alliance-the two exchange co-operation milestones in agriculture and give takes on the implementation of the Global Development Initiative.  On July 11, Li Jinxiang, the chief veterinarian (official) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural...