Thailand's rice management committee said on Monday it will offer loans worth $1 billion to jasmine rice farmers struggling with falling prices, on a condition that they store the grain for six months to slow down market supply.
Sub-Saharan Africa is seeing a surge of interest in irrigation among small-scale farmers as climate change brings more erratic weather and as rising populations in countries from Nigeria to Kenya ...
Coconut farmers may finally get what they have long been hankering for –the multi-billion coconut levy funds.
Two people were killed in the southern Philippines after clashes between police and thousands of drought-hit farmers protesting over a lack of food, a demonstration leader said Saturday.
President Francois Hollande was heckled Saturday as France's annual agricultural fair kicked off against the backdrop of the ‘worst crisis ever’ facing the country's farmers.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday said the government aimed to provide the benefits of the ‘Digital India’ initiative to the country’s farmers, for which a virtual platform of a national agricultural market is in the works.
India's government on Wednesday approved a $1.3 billion insurance scheme for farmers to protect against crop failures, saying it was intended to put a halt to a spate of suicides.
