The federal government has allocated N1.77 billion in new projects to boost animal health, disease prevention, and sustainable livestock management across Nigeria.
Singapore-based investment firm 8F Asset Management has successfully closed an investment fund which it said finalizes the funding it needs to complete a land-based salmon recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) in Japan.
Japanese authorities began culling some 50,000 chickens Sunday after a bird flu outbreak at a farm in the northern Iwate Prefecture region.
India has allowed 100 per cent foreign investment in the food and beverage sector, full foreign ownership, and complete foreign management of such foreign-owned enterprises, the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal, has announced.
Andhra Pradesh and Jharkhand rejoined the scheme last year while Telangana has announced rolling it out from next kharif season.Bihar has agreed to rejoin PMFBY by the next kharif season. Also, talks are on with Gujarat to persuade the coastal state to implement the scheme.
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi approved continuation of the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana and Restructured Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme till 2025-26 with an overall outlay of Rs.69,515.71 Crore from 2021-22 to 2025-26. The decision will help in risk coverage of crops from non-preventable natural calamities for farmers across the country till 2025-26.
An Indonesian government plan to clear forests spanning an area twice the size of South Korea for food and biofuel crops has sparked fears of massive greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss.
Insurance companies are receiving large amounts of calls from farmers about collapsed sheds and dead animals following heavy snowfall in recent days, according to a specialist in loss assessing who has worked in the industry since 1980.
The amount of damage to agriculture caused by the eruption of Kanlaon Volcano in Negros has reached P129.39 million, according to the Department of Agriculture.
AgriCulture South Africa (Agri SA) and the Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa (Agbiz) have raised concerns following a sharp decline in South Africa’s agricultural performance in the third quarter of 2024.
Night temperature fell to 2°C in the last week of December. On January 4, it was 2.6°C and has not increased since then.
FoodTechBangladesh, a Bangladeshi-Dutch aquaculture partnership, has achieved two major milestones with the help of the Dutch government.
The 2022 floods helped bring renewed attention to takaful insurance as a possible solution in Pakistan, which aims to shift a third of the country's financial industryfrom conventional to Islamic banking by next year.
Climate change is much more than about floods and storms. Everyone remembers the ‘biblical floods’ of 2022 that devastated Pakistan’s agriculture.Pakistani farmers have long been sensing the impact of the more common perils on their crops.
The Agricultural Insurance Pool (TARSIM)issued 3.2 million policies and distributed 22.5 billion liras in state premium support and damage compensation to farmers in 2024.Hail damage led to the highest payouts at 3.7 billion liras, followed by animal deaths at 1.8 billion liras and frost damage at 1.7 billion liras. Drought, storms and flooding also resulted in significant compensation payments.
China Finance Ministry on Tuesday announced the nationwide implementation of full-cost insurance and planting income insurance policies for rice, wheat and corn, as part of a food security drive to encourage planting of staple grains. The policy is aimed at improving the level of agricultural insurance protection, stabilizing farmers’ income, supporting the revitalization of rural areas and safeguarding food security, according to a notice released with the Agriculture Ministry and the State Administration of Financial Supervision.