Mrs. Angkhana Buddhasri, Director of the 7th Chai Nat Agricultural Economics Office (Nor Sor Sor.7), reveals the results of monitoring the operation of the Asparagus Community Enterprise Group. The group is based in Ban Pluak Sung, Tha Din Dam Sub-district, Chai Badan District of Lop Buri Province and has 25 members. The total planting area is 46 rai (836 acres), with an average of 2 rai (0.79 acres) per...
Current State of Canada Lobster
With the rising spring season catch, prices of Canada lobster are plummeting. The availability of the seafood commodity has increased of late as Newfoundland and Nova Scotia start the spring crustacean season. The reigning price per pound stands at $10.42. By and large, there has also been a halt in direct buying from producers in the first week of May...
El Salvador Government delivers planting supplies to agricultural producers in the West
News summary: From Sonsonate to Caluco, the El Salvador agricultural authorities will deliver more than 2,200 packages to the same number of producers. The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG), together with the Government, distributed agricultural packages for the benefit of more than half a million small producers from different areas of the country. Every day, more farmers are benefiting from the delivery...
Germany: Fewer large cattle slaughters in Schleswig-Holstein
Kiel, Germany: In 2022, meat production in the slaughterhouses of Schleswig-Holstein sank again. The decline is due to fewer pigs and fewer cattle slaughters, according to the Statistics Office North. Compared to the previous year 2021, the number of commercially slaughtered cattle fell by 7.3 percent or 19,443 animals to 246,208 animals. The slaughter volume fell by 7,414 ton (t)...
Meat and Dairy Sales Expected to Rise During King Charles’ Coronation
Analysts have predicted huge red meat and products from dairy sales as the coronation of King Charles III starts today in the UK. The Brits who are known for loving a party will throng streets to enjoy the weekend. The coronation that is slated to take place on Saturday, May 6 promises to show the celebratory side of Britons with...
Russia may increase imports of meat products from Belarus in accordance with TR
News summary: TR CU 034/2013 regulates meat safety under Eurasian trade protocols and as Russia seeks to increase its stake in the productive Belarusian meat export market, it promises to adhere to the TR stipulations. The meat industry in Belarus grew by a quarter over the previous year. The pace has been maintained this year-in 3 months, the output in monetary terms...
Valencia Council approves 2.5 million euros to subsidize the cost of desalinated water to the irrigators of the Tagus-Segura
News in brief: The aid will reduce the cost per cubic meter of desalinated water destined for crops by 10 cents. The Plenary of the Valencia Council has approved the decree regulating the granting of 2.5 million euros in subsidies aimed at the communities of irrigators who use the Tajo-Segura transfer of the province of Alicant. The order will help reduce by 10 cents the cost of each cubic meter...
Sown corn accounts for 61.62% of China’s Jilin Province’s sowing plan
At present, it is the golden period of sowing in dry fields and raking paddy fields. According to the May 3 agricultural dispatch, Jilin Province rice seedling sowing work is basically over. Corn accounted for 61.62% of the total sown portion of the planned area, 1.38 percentage points slower than last year. Potatoes have been sown in 85.37% of the planned area, 3.57 percentage points faster than last year. At the entry point...
Dutch Farmers: EU Okays Plan to Buy Out Farmers to Reduce Emissions
A tractor protest seeking to upstage plans to buy out farms from Dutch farmers ‘forever,’ has been going on for the better part of 2023, precisely since March, in provincial Netherlands, amid EU’s nod to the scheme aiming to reduce emissions. The agricultural hotbed of Western Europe seeks to stem its rising nitrogen emissions by shutting down some 3000 big...
Ukrainians fear that the ban on imports of their agricultural products will last longer
The current ban on the import of certain agri-food goods from Ukraine to the so-called frontier countries lasts until June 5. However, Oleg Nivyevskyj, head of the Food and Land Use Research Center of the Kiev School of Economics, believes that this is not the end of the restrictions. “Although the decision has been announced for a month, the European Commission has...