The state-owned Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation (PCIC) is urging farmers and fisherfolk across Western Visayas to immediately report damage to crops or fisheries caused by natural calamities to their Municipal Agriculture Office (MAO) to claim indemnity faster.
Farmers demand immediate government intervention to compensate for their losses and safeguard their livelihoods against natural calamities.
Farm Credit Canada says the funding commitment will allow it to invest directly into promising agriculture technology companies.
U.S. senators have reintroduced legislation to preemptively ban commercial octopus farming, claiming the species’ intelligence makes such practices cruel and inhumane.
Farmers around the world are also turning to crop insurance.
As crucial waterways run low and Europe's farmers worry about their crops, the European Union is trying to come up with a strategy to keep the water flowing.
A severe drought is gripping farming communities, creating an "unprecedented crisis".
As B.C.'s cherry orchards approach a new season, high-tech Canadian greenhouse growers observe the ongoing challenges faced by stone-fruit farmers.
Although there are policies in place to compensate for human and livestock losses, there are no provisions to provide relief for crop damage.
Serbia's raspberry farmers are facing a tough season afterunexpected snowfallhit the country's main growing regions in mid-May. The late-season snow blanketed raspberry plantations just weeks before harvest time, adding to crop damage that already started with April frost events, reportedFresh Plaza.
Manitoba farmers urged to protect both themselves and their livestock from wildfire smoke and have a comprehensive evacuation plan ready in case of emergency situations.
What began as a routine insurance misstep has snowballed into a legal battle over timing, reinsurance, and blame.
In the wake of the recent devastating hailstorm that caused significant damage to crops in Chitragam area of south Kashmir’s Shopian district, Minister for Agriculture, Javed Dar on Tuesday visited the affected fields to assess the situation firsthand and to express solidarity with the distressed farming community.
Pennsylvania officialsfileda federal lawsuit against the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Wednesday over its termination of the Local Food Purchase Assistance 2025 Cooperative Agreement (LFPA25 Agreement).
A cross-party majority in Norway’s Parliament has reached agreement on the government's new aquaculture policy, opting to retain the current biomass and traffic light system for regulating fish farming, while introducing incentive mechanisms to drive environmental improvements.
A major pan-European study led by theEuropean Alliance for Regenerative Agriculture (EARA)has found that regenerative farming systems, many of which are entirely plant-based, can produce similar or better yields than conventional agriculture while drastically reducing inputs such as synthetic fertilisers and pesticides.