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Grow your own strawberries: from balconies to window boxes — here’s how to create a strawberry container garden

What would British summer be without strawberries? Turns out they’re also easy to grow at home.

Evening Standard

Climate change threatens to cause 'synchronised harvest failures' across the globe, with implications for Australia's food security

New research shows scientists have underestimated the climate risk to agriculture and global food production. Blind spots in climate models meant “high-impact but deeply-uncertain hazards” were ignored. But now that the threat of “synchronised harvest failures” has been revealed, we cannot ignore the prospect of global famine.

The Conversation

Govt. mulling over milk price hike and 70% of it will go to farmers: Minister

Acknowledging that the government is considering hiking the price of Nandini milk supplied by Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF), Animal Husbandry Minister K. Venkatesh on Tuesday said that the quantum of hike is yet to be decided.

The Hindu

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Campaigners say new Falkirk rat control service should not just be for council tenants

Falkirk Council's new service will be funded by rents so only tenants will be able to use it.

Daily Record

Shutdown by cashew traders, processing units makes lives miserable for farmers, workers

The ongoing strike at the Palasa cashew market in Srikakulam district, counted among the biggest in the region, has severely affected the lives of thousands of farmers and day workers.

The Hindu

Revanth challenges BRS for debate on 24-hour power supply

Revanth Reddy said no farmer will believe the BRS propaganda as Congress had a patent on the free power scheme. The 24-hour power supply claim under BRS is nothing but cheating

The Hindu

Midlothian cattle farmer's bid to change access road blocked despite local support

Villagers had called for the new farm road to be moved away from a historic Roman road onto a nearby 60mph route but planners said it was not safe

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Revanth comments are part of Cong. conspiracy against farming community: KTR

The Hindu

Ugandan Adviser Plans Trade Shows To Boost Exports, Attract Investment

Uganda's Export Vision: $6 Billion Boost by 2028

Zenger

Coconut farmers lose sleep as copra price goes from ₹14,500 to ₹7,000 per quintal in 8 months

Coconut is grown on over 6.46 lakh hectares across Karnataka, and the production of ball copra is around 2.18 lakh metric tonnes per year. The fall in price came up for debate in the Legislature session as well. MLAs representing coconut-growing areas demanded financial incentives for growers in addition to…

The Hindu

Meet attributes decline in area under millets to marketing, support price issues

Speakers at two-day annual group meetings on pearl millet and small millets being held here said there are challenges in expanding the area under millets, particularly the minor millets, as the farming community is unsure about the marketing facilities and remunerative price.

The Hindu

Once drought-hit, Siddipet now attracts migrant farm workers

With the commencement of the rainy season, the labour-intensive farming activities have picked up in Siddipet. Knowing about the work available here, hundreds of farm labourers have migrated to the district from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal in the past few weeks.

The Hindu

Low water levels in major reservoirs in Andhra Pradesh paint grim picture

According to official information, the water level at Srisailam Reservoir is at a mere 33.62 thousand cubic feet (tmc ft) as of July 9. While its Full Reservoir Level (FRL) is 880 ft, the present water level is only 808.80 feet. It is to be noted that the water level…

The Hindu

‘Our attempt is to end import dependency on urea by 2025 and replace it with nano urea and other alternate forms of urea’

Talking to The Hindu, the Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers, Manuskh Mandaviya, said the Centre’s effort is to reduce import dependency on fertilizers, especially in view of the steep increase in prices after the Ukraine crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. Excerpts from the interview:

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Daily Mirror

Girl, 18, has her scalp ripped off by machine as she worked in factory

Teenager Alexandra Trandafil suffered serious injuries in a horror accident at work when her hair became caught in a conveyor belt and scalped her, with surgeons unable to reattach it

The Hindu

Food Ministry indicates willingness to tweak OMSS

The Union Food Ministry indicated that it is willing to make changes to the Open Market Sales Scheme

The Hindu

Farmers likely to get better prices for chilli, cotton, groundnut in A.P. this year

The cultivation of redgram, blackgram, greengram, groundnut, cotton and chilli in Kharif may provide positive returns because of the expected better market prices and low cost of production when compared to paddy, he said.

The Hindu

Stalin writes to Modi over copra procurement

Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requesting him to issue instructions to the Ministry concerned to increase the ceiling for copra procurement from 25% to 40% till September this year

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Marie Claire

Meet ELEMIS’ power plant: the English rose

Our Beauty and Style Director, Lisa Oxenham, visited Castle Farm to help harvest the organic English rose for the oleo extract that’s used in the Elemis Pro-Collagen Rose range. Here’s what she learned about the power of the organic English rose in skincare.

Wales Online

Man saved farmer trapped under hay bale using three words

Michael dialled 999 after being unable to budge the heavy bale himself

The Hindu

Time running out for sowing Kharif crops as rain deficit continues

With hardly 10 days of the right time left for sowing of major Vanakalam (Kharif) crops in Telangana, reaching the planned extent of crops such as cotton, maize, soybean, redgram, greengram and blackgram appears to be getting increasingly difficult as the State suffers an average rainfall deficit of 35% as…

The Hindu

Anna Bhagya: CM to launch cash transfer today

Payment of cash in lieu of the additional 5 kg of rice to beneficiaries under the Anna Bhagya scheme will begin from Monday. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will launch the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) programme. Last week, the Chief Minister said that this month’s amount will be deposited into the bank…

Daily Mirror

Dad saves farmer's life with THREE WORDS after he's crushed under half ton of hay

Michael Moss, 39, had been eating lunch in his garden when he heard screams for help and ran to find a local farmer trapped under half a ton of hay

The Times of India

Uncertainty looms over tabling of draft Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Amendment) Bill in Monsoon Session of Parliament

PUNE: Top officials from the ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying have yet to provide any clarity regarding the tabling of the draft Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Amendment) Bill in the upcoming monsoon session of the Parliament, set to commence on July 20. This persists despite the department…

The Hindu

Agri sector saw unprecedented progress under YSRCP, says Kakani

The agriculture sector in Andhra Pradesh has witnessed unprecedented progress during the last four years, and the proactive steps taken by the State government have helped the sector to flourish like never before, said Agriculture Minister Kakani Govardhan Reddy.

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