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Telangana govt to release Rs 7,600 cr for 'Rythu Bandhu' scheme from Dec. 28

HYDERABAD: Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday directed State Finance Minister T Harish Rao to start releasing the crop investment - Rythu Bandhu funds for the yasangi harvest (rabi) season from December 28.

The Times of India

Greens 'still safe' after spinach recall

A peak industry body is urging Australians to keep supporting vegetable growers in the wake of a recall of spinach, which it says was from a single farm.

AAP

Ex-defence force personnel, pilots among workers helping with Victoria's record grain harvest

What do you get when you have an Aussie, six Canadians, three Kiwis, and two commercial pilots? Just enough people to get harvest underway.

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Queensland Fisheries' heat-tolerant oyster breeding breakthrough offers hope as ocean temperatures rise

Scientists have made a "game-changing" breakthrough they hope will help Queensland's oyster farming industry survive the impacts of climate change.

ABC News

Northumberland farmer opens up on 'extremely difficult' times as costs skyrocket

It comes after Northumberland County Council published its Future of Farming report last week

Chronicle Live

Mexico says it aims for agreement with U.S. on GM corn in January

Mexico and the United States aim to reach an agreement in January over a pending Mexican ban on imports of genetically modified (GM) corn, the Mexican foreign ministry said on Friday after officials from the two countries held talks in Washington.

Reuters

Ireland joins forces with New Zealand for new projects aimed at reducing agricultural emissions

They will support €7m worth of research on the issue

Irish Mirror

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Ord Valley mangoes left unpicked as farmers count cost of flooded market

Farmers in Western Australia's far north leave tonnes of mangoes unpicked, with a flooded market making continuing this year's harvest an unviable option.

ABC News

Govt in talks over live cattle export ban

The Albanese government is trying to settle claims against farmers over an "unreasonable and capricious" ban on live cattle exports to Indonesia in 2011.

AAP

Australia's dried fruit bowl faces massive crop losses, worst downy mildew in decades

Growers in Sunraysia, which grows 98 per cent of Australia's dried fruit, are expecting to lose half of this season's fruit due to a downy mildew outbreak.

ABC News

North Australia's lucrative cotton industry set to double in size after bumper harvest

Farmers prepare massive swathes of land across the Top End for one of the world's most profitable crops. But some sections of the community are concerned about the impacts.

ABC News

Climate change is impacting mental health. Queensland farmers are doing something about it

Melanie Shannon and Melinee Leather say they now feel empowered to "survive these traumatic times".

ABC News

Facing searing heat and labour shortages, NT mango growers trial new ways to harvest fruit

Finding workers willing to pick mangoes under the hot NT sun is difficult. Some farmers are turning to harvesting at night and preparing for a future of using robots.

ABC News

The Dark Side of Jalisco’s Avocado Boom

As production stifles biodiversity, depletes water reserves and takes over wild land, environmentalists worry about Mexico's "green gold."

Texas Observer

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The Independent UK

King and Queen Consort visit community kitchen at centre of new farm project

Charles praised the work at London’s Community Kitchen as ‘marvellous’.

The Independent UK

Organic livestock farmers, hit by rising prices, seek help

Organic dairy and other livestock farmers are calling for emergency federal aid as they grapple with skyrocketing organic feed costs in part from the war in Ukraine and steep fuel and utility expenses

The Conversation

Fungal toxins are widespread in European wheat – threatening human health and the economy

Wheat provides 19% of the calories and 21% of the protein consumed by humans globally. But a fungal disease called fusarium head blight (FHB), which can infect wheat crops and contaminate the grain with toxins, is on the rise.

The Independent UK

Three arrested in Defra protest

Animal rights protesters scaled the department’s head office building in Westminster.

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Can we hack DNA to grow more food for a hotter, hungry planet?

SAN JOSE, Calif. — To feed a hotter and drier planet, Stanford scientists are building a smarter plant.

Evening Standard

Three arrested after protesters scale DEFRA building in central London

Three people have been arrested after animal rights protesters scaled the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) building in central London, on Thursday morning, as they sought to draw attention to the bird flu crisis and intensive farming practices.

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Camel sanctuary operator pleads for return of calf allegedly stolen from Goulburn Valley retreat

A camel sanctuary in regional Victoria is pleading for the return of a six-week-old calf that went missing this week. The owner says the calf's mother is in pain from losing her baby.

The Independent UK

Plants, fake sprouts and none of the trimmings: What does the future hold for the traditional Christmas dinner?

The climate crisis is already affecting our potato and Brussels sprout harvests, while animal feed for our turkeys has become incredibly expensive, writes Hannah Twiggs. We will have to change our Christmas dinners as a result. But would that be such a bad thing?

ABC News

Marquis suspends scheduled payments to macadamia growers after 'shocker' year for industry

Growers have handed over their nuts to Australia's biggest processor, Marquis Macadamias, but the company has suspended payments.

Reuters

Kenya's GMO maize push sowing trouble for food sector, farmers warn

(This Dec.15 story has been corrected to remove reference to GMO crops being seedless in paragraph 5 and to fix the timing of the lifting of the ban in paragraph 2)

The Guardian - UK

China’s return to wildlife farming ‘a risk to global health and biodiversity’

Post-pandemic relaxation of restrictions could weaken animal protection and pose a hazard to public health, say experts

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