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(JURIST) - Human Rights Watch (HRW) Tuesday reported that Pakistani authorities are evicting thousands of farmers to make way for an infrastructure project near the city of Lahore. The organization [...]

At a global level, the rate of deforestation is increasing year after year, driven by demand for products like timber, rubber, palm oil, cattle and coffee. Growing and cultivating these [...]

No one among the group of farmers, jostling with each other to enter the Pune Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) premises, was ready to listen to the security guards. Everyone [...]

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal on Thursday reiterated that the new agriculture laws were in the interest of the farming community and urged farmers to stop opposing the implementation of [...]

Maharashtra government will amend its agriculture law to protect farmers and APMCs as three central farm laws are not in the interest of agriculturists, said state Revenue Minister Balasaheb Thorat. [...]

A Missouri farmer couldve been in remand before an alleged double murder, documents show, after he was accused of unlawfully transporting cattle while on probation. According to documents, although a [...]

(GlobeNewswire) - Affinor Growers Inc. (Affinor or the Company) (CSE: AFI; OTCQB: RSSFF) is pleased to announce it will be supporting the cryptocurrency markets and accepting payments for licensing and [...]

The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh will purchase wheat directly from farmers from April 1 to June 15 under the Minimum Support Price Scheme. The move is aimed at [...]

As agriculture has been a silver lining with 11.7% growth in 2020-21, the state government has proposed an allocation of Rs 3,274 crore with the announcement of a slew of [...]

(GlobeNewswire) - In a full-page ad in todays Toronto Star, labour, community and civil society organizations in Canada and elsewhere expressed their support for Indias farmers. This Declaration of Solidarity [...]

President Rodrigo Dutertes signing into law of a measure that seeks to create a trust fund for coconut farmers through the selling of assets procured through the coco levy fund [...]

In 2021-22, the government aims to spend Rs 700 crore on setting up 2,500 farmers' producer organisations (FPOs). This would help the government step out to create a healthier agriculture [...]

Councillors in Marlborough are maintaining a dont-shoot-the-messenger approach to new freshwater regulations while looking to charge farmers $155 an hour to send the messenger. A report presented to the Marlborough [...]

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday commenced presentation of the Budget for 2021-22 in the Lok Sabha. 'The central government is committed to the welfare of farmers', said the Finance [...]

Amid Opposition's protest in Parliament against the three new farm laws, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her Budget speech said agri procurement has increased steadily, thus benefiting farmers. 43.36 lakh [...]

A dedicated helpline for the farmers of Kashmir Valley to be restored for providing necessary information & timely redressal of the grievances of the farmers: Director Agriculture Kashmir Srinagar/11-01-2021/Director Agriculture [...]

Exporters of fresh produce have warned that farmers earnings will be cut by over Sh350 million following the implementation of the 0.25 percent export levy. The levy, which has been [...]

It has been nearly a month and a half since farmers, a majority of them from Punjab, have been sitting on the outskirts of national capital New Delhi, demanding a [...]

India needs to change its age-old pro-cereal agrideology. Weaning the agricultural sector down the production chain to the farmer off rice and wheat, much of which goes unsold, is really [...]

While hundreds of farmers from the state are agitating at the borders with Delhi against the new farm laws, the Yogi Adityanath government will be felicitating 100 'progressive farmers' in [...]

While farmers across the country are protesting the governments new agriculture laws, horticulturists and agriculturists from Canacona have also claimed that their issues are being neglected by the state government. [...]

Agitating farmers and supporting groups in Punjab have targeted the telecom towers of Reliance Jio in the state, thus disrupting mobile and internet services of the company and causing inconvenience [...]

The farm laws introduced by the Central government are a big step towards doubling the income of farmers. By granting the freedom of choice to the farmers, these laws will [...]

Amid the ongoing protests by farmers against Centre's new agriculture laws, Ministry of Finance on Friday said that the government is empowering its farmers and accelerating agriculture growth through Atma [...]

While farmers' protests continue at Delhi's borders against the three farm laws, the government's claim of maintaining and upgrading the Minimum Support Price (MSP) as an essential part of the [...]

The U.S. Department of Transportations Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has published a final rule clarifying agricultural commodity and livestock definitions in hours-of-service (HOS) regulations, the agency announced Nov. [...]

The State government has decided to bring another ordinance, the Agriculture Produce and Livestock Marketing (Promotion and Facilitation), to give immediate relief to farmers amid the Covid-19 pandemic. A proposal [...]

Seething with anger, farmers in India have taken to the streets to protest against new agriculture laws that critics argue could lead to the exploitation of small-crop growers by large [...]

Provincial Minister for Law and Social Welfare Raja Basharat has said that farmers would be taken into confidence in important decisions and their recommendations would be included in Punjab's agriculture [...]

Dr Andr Jooste, an agricultural economist who joined Potatoes South Africa eight years ago as chief executive officer, is leaving the organisation at the end of the month for personal [...]

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Tuesday said that new agriculture law of the central government would be beneficial for only capitalists and farmers. Discussing Chhattisgarh Krishi Upaj Mandi (Amendment) [...]

Urban development and cooperation minister Suresh Bhardwaj on Thursday lashed out at Congress stating that it was misleading farmers on the agrarian laws which were meant to revolutionise the agriculture [...]

Controversy dogs the farm bills just passed by Parliament. The bills aim to revolutionise the farm sector. The new legislations are farmer-friendly and free agriculturists from selling produce through the [...]

The opposition to the farm legislations is growing in Telangana with the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leadership coming out on the road to protest the anti-farmer regulations. The political [...]

Lok Sabha yesterday passed two bills aimed at transforming agriculture in the country and raising farmers income. The bills are Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020 [...]

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has instructed officials to provide fertilizer to farmers without any shortages for the Maha paddy season, says the Presidents Media Division (PMD). A meeting chaired by the [...]

Farmers in parts of Minnesota face new regulations that began Tuesday on how they apply nitrogen fertilizer. The Groundwater Protection Rule, developed by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, took effect [...]

Zimbabwe on Wednesday agreed to pay $3.5 billion in compensation to white farmers whose land was seized by Robert Mugabe's regime as part of his agrarian reforms in the early [...]

A group of Lebanese farmers have sown the seeds for the setting up of a growers syndicate for the production of cannabis plants. The move to establish a founding committee [...]

Law enforcers arrested two individuals, one of them a beneficiary of the Special Amelioration Program and the other a farmer, for illegal drugs. Arrested on Thursday, the SAP beneficiary allegedly [...]

The Tamil Nadu Governor has promulgated an ordinance suitably amending The Tamil Nadu Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation) Act, 1987 to allow farmers to market their produce in any recognised private [...]

The National Corn Growers Association commends the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Sustainable, Ecological, Consistent, Uniform, Responsible, Efficient (SECURE) rule, which will modernize and update the way in which biotechnology is [...]

Director Agriculture Chaudhry Abdul Hameed has advised farmers to adopt preventive measures while harvesting their wheat crop. In a statement issued here on Wednesday, he said that the government was [...]

The Agricultural Credit Corporation has approved a decision to grant loans valued at JD10 million with zero interest rates to farmers, with a grace period of five years. Some within [...]

About 3,000 employees of UkrLandFarming and Avangard agricultural holdings, as well as ordinary people who joined their demands, held a rally outside the Verkhovna Rada and the President's Office HQs, [...]

The Karnataka government on Tuesday decided to withdraw 51 cases registered in various police stations, including those pertaining to the farmers agitation over various irrigation and water dispute-related issues. 'We [...]

American Farm Bureau Federation is praising a trade agreement for the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, as an improvement over the venerable NAFTA. 'USMCA, quite frankly, is an upgrade on NAFTA,' [...]

First-time BJP MLA Jai Prakash Dalal who is a Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Fisheries and Law and Legislative says that the State Government is [...]

Thousands of farmers defied the law to plant an unapproved variety of genetically modified (GM) cotton on nearly 20% of the cultivated area in Maharashtra and Telangana this past kharif [...]

(PRWeb) - Nearly 250 Central Valley farmers and farmworkers converged on the Fresno County fairgrounds today to participate in Spray Safe, a stewardship program that promotes effective prevention of accidental [...]