Up to 200 million pigs could be culled or die from being infected as African swine fever spreads through China, Rabobank said, by far the highest such forecast yet and underscoring the gravity of the epidemic in the world’s top pork producer. Such a number
Women produce 60-80 percent of the world’s food, and women are inherently better stewards of the environment than men. Or are they? Although frequently repeated, many such “truths” about women in agriculture are increasingly being debunked. The myth of the noble and responsible rural woman still
Zimbabwe is to start paying compensation this year to thousands of white farmers who lost land under former president Robert Mugabe’s land reform nearly two decades ago, the government said, as it seeks to bring closure to a highly divisive issue. Two decades ago Mugabe’s
Today, one-third of all fished stocks are exploited at unsustainable levels and another 60 percent are fished to capacity, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. A significant part of this overfishing is driven by subsidies – most of which go to the owners
Southeast Asia’s biggest economy suffered a drop in foreign direct investment last year, but one area that attracted more overseas money was nickel processing, including a $4 billion Chinese-led project to produce battery-grade nickel chemicals to power electric vehicles (EVs). Indonesia is also set to
The Blue Belt Initiative is a platform for the sustainability of fisheries and aquaculture in Africa. It is part of the agenda of the United Nations Conference on climate change. Launched in 2016 by Morocco, the initiative provides a unified framework, exploring the emergence of
In a report, Esoko stated that the reduction is because farmers want to sell their old stock as this is to help them raise enough money for the new season. Most commodities made gains in the month of February. However, the majority of the gains
Chinese hog prices marched to their highest in 14 months on Monday and look set to keep rising after weeks of gains, analysts and producers said, as the worst disease outbreak to hit the country’s vast pig herd in years chops supply. Live hog prices
I’m not sure anyone saw it coming. Yes, we all know there’s a rice revolution going on in the country in the last three years. We heard plenty of that on the campaign trail before the February 23 presidential election. But many have thought, like
But recent news about Nigeria becoming the largest producer of rice on the continent cannot be said to be a fulfillment of this forecast, but a contradiction that has exposed as a lie the previous claims by the federal government. Audu Ogbeh, the current minister of agriculture and