Farmers are seeking new opportunities to grow crops closer to home due to global trade and supply chain uncertainties.
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Exploring the possibilities from warming temperatures
European farmers grow crops they couldn’t grow in the past to diversify operations
In first, Cuba leases farmland to foreign firm
Cuba said on Wednesday it had leased farmland to a Vietnamese company to grow rice, a first since the 1959 revolution which kicked all foreign landowners out.
‘Beef rice’ seen as potential protein source for future
Scientists say using rice grain particles as the base for cultivating animal muscle and fat cells is safer than soy or nuts
South Korean researchers have grown beef cells in rice grains in what they say is a major step toward achieving a sustainable, affordable and environmentally friendly source of protein. Professor Jinkee Hong of Yonsei University in Seoul, who led the research, said the “beef rice” is the first product of its kind. It uses grain […] Read more
Marcos vows to boost Philippines’ grains output
New president/ag min aims to avert food crisis
Manila | Reuters — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. vowed Monday to do what it takes to boost his country’s rice and corn production, seeking to reduce reliance on imports and avoid being hit hard by a food crisis now looming across the world. Marcos, who was sworn in as president last week and has […] Read more
‘Containergeddon’ drives sugar, rice shippers back to bulk vessels
New York | Reuters — Food traders are switching from containers back to dry bulk vessels to transport refined sugar and rice, hoping to avoid shipping delays caused by container shortages and port congestion the industry is calling “containergeddon,” according to traders. Container-based transportation has been hit by sky-high costs and delays amid booming shipping […] Read more
Son of India government minister arrested, accused of killing farmers
Junior home minister's son was 'not co-operating' in probe
Lucknow | Reuters — Ashish Mishra, son of junior home minister Ajay Mishra Teni, has been arrested on accusations he ran over and killed four protesting farmers last week, a senior police official said. The farmers, killed on Oct. 3 in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, were part of India’s longest-running agricultural protest, opposing […] Read more
India unveils new rice variety to reduce water use, labour
New Delhi | Reuters — India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched an array of new high-yielding crop varieties, including herbicide-tolerant rice that can be directly sown into the soil, cutting expenditure on water and farm workers. In India, the world’s biggest rice exporter, the conventional method of rice cultivation requires farmers to sow […] Read more
Beyond Meat lines up Canadian patty co-packer
U.S. company launches 'latest iteration' of burger line
One of the names tied closest to the plant protein-based meat substitute sector has enlisted an unnamed Quebec operation to make its beef-similar patties for the Canadian retail market. Los Angeles-based Beyond Meat on Wednesday launched the “latest iteration” of its flagship Beyond Burger, billed as “produced locally at a co-manufacturing facility in Canada” and […] Read more
Burnett on Markets: Global grain stocks offer false sense of food security
In event of production shortfall, 60 per cent of available stocks would never be available to market
The economic parallels from the COVID-19 epidemic are quickly changing from comparisons to the recent financial crisis in 2008-09 to the Great Depression. My parents and grandparents lived through the Depression and it did have many impacts on their everyday lives. The main symbol of the Depression-era mentality was the two enormous chest freezers in […] Read more
PHOTOS: Company hopes rice harvest the first of many
Ontario FangZheng Agriculture Enterprise Inc. recently harvested its first field of rice, near Pain Court. It was a small test plot but the farm has plans to increase the acreage next year. Researchers have looked at the potential of growing rice in Ontario on and off, but this is the first commercial attempt at raising […] Read more
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