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Thailand offers $1 bn loan to struggling jasmine rice farmers INTERNATIONAL

Thailand offers $1 bn loan to struggling jasmine rice farmers

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.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Irrigation on rise in Africa as farmers face erratic weather INTERNATIONAL

Irrigation on rise in Africa as farmers face erratic weather

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 ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Farmers to receive coconut levy funds INTERNATIONAL

Farmers to receive coconut levy funds

Coconut farmers may finally get what they have long been hankering for –the multi-billion coconut levy funds.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Two killed in Philippines as police disperse drought protest INTERNATIONAL

Two killed in Philippines as police disperse drought protest

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.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Crisis-hit French farmers heckle Hollande as he opens farm expo INTERNATIONAL

Crisis-hit French farmers heckle Hollande as he opens farm expo

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.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Farmers to get benefits of ‘Digital India’: PM INTERNATIONAL

Farmers to get benefits of ‘Digital India’: PM

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.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
India PM approves farmer crop insurance after suicides INTERNATIONAL

India PM approves farmer crop insurance after suicides

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.

4:45 AM November 25 2016