Japan is seeking 6.7 billion yen (US$43 million) in next financial year’s initial budget to combat a longhorn beetle that is destroying cherry trees and threatening agricultural production, ecosystems and the country’s
Farmers across Iowa’s agricultural heartland are bracing for another potential trade war as U.S. President Donald Trump moves to reinstate tariffs on Mexico and Canada, according to a report from the Financial
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Sri Lanka is now facing an acute rice shortage that has raised serious concerns over the quality of imported supplies. Sri Lanka Customs recently uncovered significant issues with two large rice consignments
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Climate change is no longer an abstraction. I can literally see it at my front door. My figs ripened in October 2024, which has never happened before as it was never warm
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Pakistan has achieved a significant milestone in agricultural sector with agro-exports reaching an unprecedented 8 billion U.S. dollars mark for the first time in previous fiscal year from July 2023 to June
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The number of people facing acute food insecurity rose to some 282 million in 2023, the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Wednesday. This is an increase of
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Click here to read the part two of this series 2.1 Rural Development Initiatives Undertaken Parallel to industrialization and economic growth, urbanization is a global trend. In contrast, Sri Lanka remains a
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In 2021, after a year-long protest, India’s farmers brought about the repeal of three farm laws that were intended to ‘liberalise’ the agriculture sector. Now, in 2024, farmers are again protesting. The
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What if restoring ecosystems was as easy as letting nature do what she intends? From the microscopic level, which constantly churns and builds the “living soil”—from where all life originates—to the massive
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Protesting farmers have blocked the roads with about 1,300 tractors around the European Union (EU) summit venue where the bloc’s 27 leaders are gathered on Thursday, said the police. In response to
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In some parts of the continental United States, you might drive through a nearly unchanging landscape for hours. Stretching for miles and miles, vast swaths of soil are dedicated to growing crops—corn,
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Let me start this journey with my feet on my farm. When people visit it, I notice three main responses. One is an unbidden enthusiasm for the rural paradise we’ve created, the
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The Afghan caretaker government’s acting Minister of Industry and Commerce Nooruddin Azizi said the administration has been looking forward to achieving self-sufficiency within the next three years. “We are going towards self-sufficiency
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China’s top legislature on Friday adopted a food security law aimed at ensuring the supply of grain and related products. For a country that feeds over 1.4 billion people with only 9
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by Wang Aona, Nurul Fitri Ramadhani The extreme El Nino phenomenon in Indonesia has disrupted the rice production in the largest economy of Southeast Asia, which has resorted to imports to secure
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Located some 45 meters above ground in central Tokyo, the rooftop garden at Roppongi Hills complex on Saturday welcomed city-bred children and residents in the area to experience reaping rice. Around 170
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