Keywords: Farming


Morocco’s Livestock Recovery Faces Persistent Drought and Rising Feed Costs

Morocco’s efforts to rebuild its national livestock population are progressing, but experts warn that restoring animal numbers alone may not be enough to resolve the structural weaknesses affecting the country’s farming sector. Years of drought, rising production costs and pressure on grazing......

Bayer Uses Artificial Intelligence to Develop Next-Generation Crop Protection Solutions

As agriculture faces mounting pressure from climate change, water scarcity and increasingly resistant plant diseases, Bayer is turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate the development of new crop protection solutions. Through its CropKey approach, the German life sciences group is reshaping......

South Africa tightens livestock rules as cattle theft continues to rise

South Africa is preparing to tighten regulations governing the ownership, possession, transportation and sale of livestock as authorities seek to tackle a growing problem of animal theft that is costing farmers billions of rand each year. More than 152,000 animals were reported stolen during the previous......

Drought puts Hungary’s paprika production under growing pressure

Hungary’s traditional paprika industry is facing growing pressure from drought, rising temperatures and shrinking cultivated areas, adding climate-related challenges to existing competition from cheaper imports and changing food habits. Paprika has long been associated with Hungarian cuisine and......

Morocco avocado exports could exceed 125,000 tonnes in record harvest

Morocco’s avocado industry is heading into the new season with significantly stronger production expectations, as favorable weather conditions and newly mature orchards are set to lift national output to around 180,000 tonnes. Industry professionals anticipate that between 125,000 and 130,000......

Google expands climate investments with major carbon removal project in Brazil

Google has announced its largest carbon removal purchase to date through a new partnership with climate technology company Terradot, supporting a large-scale project aimed at tackling both methane emissions from rice farming and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The initiative covers more than 200,000......

Tétouan/Chefchaouen: Harvesting and Sale of Shellfish Products Banned

Moroccan authorities have suspended the harvesting and marketing of certain shellfish products from two areas in the north of the Kingdom, following the detection of marine toxins at levels exceeding the authorized standards. The Secretary of State for Maritime Fisheries announced the ban, effective......

French farmers demand multi-billion-euro aid package as drought crisis deepens

France's agricultural sector is calling for an unprecedented government response as severe drought and repeated heatwaves put mounting pressure on farms across the country. Arnaud Rousseau, president of the FNSEA, France's largest agricultural union, has urged the government to commit several......

Sébastien Lecornu defends emergency agriculture law amid political tensions over pesticides

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has urged political parties not to turn the newly adopted emergency agriculture law into a partisan issue, arguing that the legislation represents an important tool for strengthening France’s food sovereignty. The government’s position comes......