The Government has released a plan for drones, which Transport Minister Phil Twyford said are estimated to be worth up to $7.9 billion to the economy. A paper released today, Taking Flight: an aviation system for the automated age, sets out the Government’s vision for how drones can be better integrated into the current transport […]
The state government during the question hour, on Monday, announced that it is mulling to set up a corpus fund to compensate farmers facing losses due to crop failure. The farmers insurance scheme and the alleged profit being made by private companies were raised in this hour. Chief Minister Vijay Rupani made the announcement in […]
The start of the 2019–20 winter crop season was mixed, according to Australian crop report published in June by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES). Above average rainfall in important growing regions in South Australia, Victoria and southern New South Wales during May replenished soil moisture levels and created favourable […]
The government of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, the second largest soybean producer in the country, is implementing a series of security measures to regulate the application of 2,4-D herbicides. This month, two normative instructions (IN) were published by Luis Covatti Filho (Secretary of State for Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development) in […]
Indian farmers planted an array of summer-sown crops on 56.7 million hectares, down 6.9% year on year, agriculture ministry data showed on Friday, narrowing the sowing gap estimate from the previous week. Farmers start planting rice, corn, cotton, soybeans, sugarcane and peanuts among other crops from June 1, when monsoon rains are expected to reach […]
Shri Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare met Dr Luis Miguel Etchevehere, State Secretary of Agro-industry of the Argentine Republic in New Delhi. During the meeting, the two leaders discussed that the Working Sub-group on Animal and Plant Health will strengthen the Reciprocal Trade set up under the Work Plan signed […]
DTN reports: USDA awarded $100 million to 48 organizations through the Agricultural Trade Promotion Program, or ATP, in a second round of assistance granted to the groups to expand agriculture trade. According to a USDA news release on last Friday, the 48 recipients are among the same organizations that applied for $200 million in ATP […]
The amount of agricultural pesticide used in Turkey increased to 59 thousand tons since 2009. The southern province of Antalya saw the highest increase. The usage of pesticides increased by 57 percent in the last decade. The total amount of pesticides used in 2017 increased to 54.098 tons compared to 2016, with a 8.08 percent […]
The European Parliament’s 20 standing Committees and two Sub-Committees have elected their chair and vice-chairs. Voting took place on July 10 and those holding the positions will now coordinate their respective committees for the next two and a half years. The Committees have a range of tasks from organizing hearings and scrutinizing EU institutions, as […]