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Chickens 'crushed to death by machinery' on farm which supplies British supermarkets

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES: A farm supplying chicken meat to British supermarkets Asda, Co-Op, Aldi and Tesco suffered severe injuries as a whistleblower claimed "retailers are hiding the truth" from the public

Daily Mirror

Hunt for alternative land for Govt. Horticulture Farm obstructing Kallar elephant corridor reaches nowhere

Nearly ten months after a decision was taken to relocate the State Horticulture Farm at Kallar near Mettupalayam in Coimbatore district, as part of securing the Jaccanaire - Hulikal Durgam elephant corridor aka Kallar corridor, the hunt for an alternative land has reached nowhere.

The Hindu

Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha urges State govt. to distribute ragi or jowar to make up for rice shortage

Criticising the Union Government for its “pettiness” in declining supply of rice to Karnataka, the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) has urged the State government to not only come forward and purchase the required rice from farmers in the State, but also to distribute ragi and jowar to make up…

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ICAR-CTCRI to take its tuber-based rainbow diet campaign to more States

The initiative is aimed at popularising biofortified tubers and value-added products made from them among the tribal communities for tackling malnutrition and ensuring a balanced diet

The Hindu

EPA sued over reapproval of toxic herbicides using Agent Orange chemical

Federal suit brought by public health groups alleges agency’s science shows human risks and harm to endangered species

The Guardian - US

Planting Azolla empowers Jordan’s women farmers

A farming collective of Syrian and Jordanian women in water-poor Mafraq is growing Azolla and changing their lives.

Al Jazeera

KCG preps listing to fuel expansion

KCG Corporation, Thailand's leading manufacturer, importer and distributor of dairy and bakery ingredients, is planning an initial public offering (IPO) as it aims to mobilise funds to expand its business, invest in innovations and advance towards an environmental, social and governance (ESG)-focused organisation for sustainability.

Bangkok Post

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Emerging challenges to the Dravidian model

Tamil Nadu requires a renewed approach to address the qualitative aspects of social policy, and an industrialisation strategy that ensures decent wages and dignified working conditions

The Hindu

Provide 5 kg of ragi/jowar instead of additional rice, suggests former KAPC chief

Agricultural economist and former chairman of Karnataka Agriculture Prices Commission (KAPC), T.N. Prakash Kammaradi, has suggested to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to procure ragi and jowar from local farmers to be given as substitute to additional quantum of rice in the PDS instead of procuring rice from other States.

The Hindu

Micro irrigation, ZBNF will be game-changers: Lokesh

ZBNF would go a long way in drastically cutting down production cost and ending the vicious debt cycle of desperate small and marginal farmers, who now felt that farming was unviable, he said.

The Hindu

Congress has made promises beyond its capacity to keep and soon, its inefficiency will be exposed: Bommai

The Hindu

Chicken prices soar in Kerala, affecting consumers, farmers and traders alike

Chicken prices are on the rise across the State. Live broiler chicken costs ₹172 a kg whereas the price of dressed chicken is ₹270-290 a kg. Non-vegetarians are concerned as the price increase has come at a time when trawl ban is in place in the State making fish too…

The Hindu

Clarkson's Farm's Kaleb Cooper says 'I don't have a job' as he makes huge career announcement

He became a fan favourite as he struggled to teach Clarkson about farming

Nottingham Post

MSP-receiving paddy growers account for around one-fifth of PM-KISAN beneficiaries in Tamil Nadu

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Anna Bhagya: Rice is available in Chhattisgarh, but govt. worried over high transportation cost

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday said that around 1.5 lakh tonnes of rice was available with Chhattisgarh which Karnataka could buy for its Anna Bhagya scheme, but the transportation cost would be high.

The New Daily

‘Nobody really understands’: The overlooked and growing peril of Australia’s fire ant invasion

Gold Coast cane grower Larry Spann was fixing farm machinery when he felt the intense burn of a fire ant bite. That could soon be very common

Bangkok Post

The fertiliser conundrum countries face

The global food system is broken. Largely dominated by multinational corporations, it enables and encourages unsustainable and unhealthy production and consumption patterns and generates enormous waste across all stages of production and distribution.

The Hindu

Mysugar factory’s crushing season begins in Mandya

The crushing operations at the State-owned Mysore Sugar Company or Mysugar factory got off to a start in Mandya on Friday with Minister in-charge of Mandya district N. Cheluvarayaswamy and Sugar Minister Shivananda Patil inaugurating the process

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Associations urge govt. to buy foodgrains from farmers directly

Farmers’ associations have urged the State government to buy foodgrains directly from farmers and distribute them locally. This, they say, would address several issues like making good the scarcity of foodgrain for the Anna Bhagya scheme, after the Union government’s refusal to allot additional foodgrains, provide assured market to farmers…

The Hindu

Paddy procurement of 64.5L tonnes in 2022-23 rabi second highest

The Hindu

PM urges G-20 agri ministers to focus on ensuring food security

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his video message to G-20 Agriculture Ministers meet urges them to realilse they shoulder the responsibility of future of humanity

Bangkok Post

Price controls get one-year extension

The Ministry of Commerce has extended price controls on 51 products and services for another year. The extension will expire on June 30, 2024.

Birmingham Post

Labour shortage threatens to decimate Northern Ireland mushroom sector

Growers association calls for mushroom pickers to be added to shortage occupations list

The Hindu

Tamil Nadu scores a hat-trick in exceeding 40-lakh-tonne mark in paddy procurement

Even as the 2022-23 paddy procurement is in its last leg, Tamil Nadu has scored a hat-trick in exceeding the 40-lakh-tonne mark in paddy procurement. Yet, there has been a drop in the number of farmers benefited from the procurement.

Insider UK

Scottish accountant calls for carbon tax action

Tax clarity 'will help us see the good from the trees' argues the firm's head of agriculture

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