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Schools shut as toxic smog engulfs India’s capital New Delhi
Schools were shut across India's capital on Friday as a noxious grey smog engulfed the megacity and made life a misery for its 30 million ... World News -
Ukraine’s farm output could take 20 years to recover: Study
Ukraine’s agricultural sector could take 20 years or more in parts to recover from the ravages of Russia’s full-scale invasion, according to a ... World News -
UK government calls in supermarket bosses for salad crisis talks
Britain’s major supermarket groups have been called in by the government to discuss what they are doing to restock shelves with salad items as the ... World News -
Human waste found to be safe for growing vegetables: Study
As farmers in Europe and across the world grapple with increases in the cost of fertilizers, researchers suggest a solution may be closer to home in ... World News -
Greenhouses to vertical farming: The Middle East’s path to foolproof food security
An agricultural industry expert has cautioned Middle Eastern nations against an “over centralization” of the food system linking security with ... Gulf -
Farm and food investors face $150 billion loss on climate change: Report
Top farming and food firms could lose up to a quarter of their value by 2030 if they do not adapt to new government policies and consumer behavior ... World News -
Iran: Police arrest Afghan suspected of stabbing 10 to death
Police in Iran arrested an Afghan man suspected of stabbing 10 other farm laborers to death following a quarrel over land, Iranian state media ... Middle East -
Lebanese family turns to farming to survive amid crisis, soaring food costs
In a remote village in southern Lebanon, Qassem Shreim crouched low to examine his wheat crop. Food costs have soared amid a global wheat crisis and ... Middle East -
New Zealand to price sheep and cow burps to cut greenhouse gases
New Zealand on Wednesday released a draft plan to put a price on agricultural emissions in a bid to tackle one of the country’s biggest sources of ... World News -
Pakistan’s mango production to fall by 50 percent due to heatwave, water shortage
Pakistan’s mango production is expected to decline by around 50 percent this year, as the crop has been severely hit by unusually high temperatures ... World News -
Iraq’s farmers pushed off land as drought and heat cripple crops
Until a few years ago, farming in southern Iraq was “as lucrative as oil,” Qasim Abdul Wahad remembers, and his one-hectare farm plot in the governate ... Middle East -
Traders bid for sweetest dates at Saudi festival
At dawn in Unaiza, the golden-brown dates - the stars of the festival - arrive at the marketplace to the sound of a town crier announcing trading open ... Gulf -
Hundreds flock to see a 20-inch dwarf cow at a Bangladesh farm
Hundreds of people are ignoring coronavirus restrictions and flocking to a farm in Bangladesh to see a 20-inch (51-cm) tall cow that its keepers say ... Variety -
China’s ‘father of hybrid rice’ dies
An agronomist hailed as a Chinese national hero for helping develop hybrid rice and easing hunger for millions worldwide died on Saturday at the age ... World News -
A rediscovered forgotten species brews promise for coffee’s future
In dense tropical forests in Sierra Leone, scientists have rediscovered a coffee species not seen in the wild in decades - a plant they say may help ... Healthy Living -
Grazing cows lead to squabble on Lebanese-Israeli border
Lebanese cattle herders from a village close to the border with Israel said several of their cows, which have grazed freely in the area for decades, ... Middle East -
Egypt achieves self-sufficiency in rice in 2020 with 6.5 mln tons: Cabinet
Egypt achieved self-sufficiency in rice in 2020 with the production of 6.5 million tons, the cabinet said on Wednesday.The country has planted 1.7 ... Middle East
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