Sichuan Province has entered the spring irrigation centralized water supply period. Recently, this reporter learned from the Provincial Rural Water Conservancy Center that at the end of March, the total water storage capacity of the water conservancy project in Sichuan Province was 6.5 billion cubic meters, which was less than in the previous years. Among them, the...
Livestock feed summary: Opec+’s announcement to cut oil production is creating turbulence among oilseeds. Wheat and sorghum prices remain steady, however. After losing nearly 10 percent over a month, the first week of April showed a slight recovery in Italy’s soybean prices listed on domestic commodity exchanges. Supporting quotations once again were the ongoing dynamics in...
Russia delivered $128 million worth of agricultural products to Brazil in 2022, 2.5 times more than in 2021. Due to such dynamics, the Latin American country was included in the top 50 buyers of Russian food list. The growth occurred mainly due to increased supply of wheat. Last year the shipment of grain amounted to...
In summary: in 2023, Polish farmers expect to pay a price not that much different from 2022’s high prices for such seeds as grain, sugar beet and services such as manure removal. This year’s price lists for agricultural services, after last year’s increases, have not changed much and are settling at similar price levels to...
In the village of Schlöben, Thuringia, inhabitants have made it-they live completely energy self-sufficient, without quarrels and without quarrels. But how did the inhabitants manage this? The MDR documentary “Dorf unter Strom – Das Selbstversorger-Dorf” has investigated this question. The mayor Hans-Peter Perschke from Schlöben is both a dairy farmer and an energy farmer. The...
A press release made by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in Turkey, reads as follows: “There is a need to make a press release regarding onion production (in Turkey) and market supply in our country. According to the last ten-year averages, 2 million and 100 thousand tons of dry onions were produced annually in...
LAM DONG: New strawberry variety in Vietnam PS8.10 is resistant to powdery mildew and anthracnose and has a yield of over 30 tons/ha. Especially, the ripe fruit is very fragrant, delicious, sweet, and popular in the market. Snow white strawberries cost from 700,000 to 900,000 VND/kg ( from US$29.85/kg) but they are not enough to sell. The...
The first Agriculture Week Kyushu will be held for three days starting May 24 in Kumamoto, Japan. Japanese exhibitor RX Japan will host the “1st Agriculture Week Kyushu” at Grand Messe Kumamoto for three days, starting May 24. RX Japan is the largest exhibition organizer in Japan, holding 96 exhibitions in 35 sectors annually. Agriculture...
The Lampung Provincial Government has asked district and city governments in the area to only distribute healthy livestock for both shipping and public consumption. “Seeing that recently there have been a lot of livestock diseases, districts and cities are expected to distribute healthy livestock,” said Lampung Province Economic and Development Assistant Kusnardi in Bandarlampung, Tuesday....
In more than four out of 10 families (42%), typical Easter sweets are prepared at home this year, also as a result of the expensive prices triggered by the war in Ukraine. This is what emerges from the Coldiretti/Ixe’ survey on the Easter of Italians on the occasion of the parade of sweets of the...