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Produce prices spike in flood-hit Pakistan as food crisis looms

Aug. 31, 2022 at 2:31 pm CDT

Lahore | Reuters — Vegetable and fruit prices have soared in markets across Pakistan as devastating rains ruin crops and disrupt supplies, an early sign of how the worst floods in decades are creating food shortages at a time of financial crisis. Pakistan’s 220 million people are already facing rampant […]

Italian court upholds veto against Syngenta purchase of seed producer

Apr. 13, 2022 at 7:36 pm CDT

By Reuters

Prizes put up to develop year-round berry production in Canada

Feb. 8, 2022 at 4:05 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

Canada resists pressure to drop vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers

Jan. 10, 2022 at 1:16 pm CST

By Steve Scherer

Federal reprieve for imidacloprid cuts its application rates

May. 19, 2021 at 5:07 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Health Canada steps back from bans on two neonics

Mar. 31, 2021 at 7:51 pm CDT

A federal proposal to protect aquatic insect habitat by cancelling all registered outdoor uses for two popular ag insecticides has been walked back in a major way. Health Canada on Wednesday announced its special review decisions on the risks to aquatic bug life from the use of clothianidin and thiamethoxam, […]

By Dave Bedard

Ontario extends lost-labour production insurance

Jan. 5, 2021 at 5:08 am CST

A temporary expansion of Ontario’s AgriInsurance program, to cover losses caused by COVID-19-related short-handedness on the farm, will be held over. The province and federal government on Dec. 22 announced the expansion of coverage will be extended to cover the 2021 program year — and that it will insure production […]

By Dave Bedard

Peru farm protests grip country, turn deadly

Dec. 3, 2020 at 4:19 pm CST

Lima | Reuters — Protests by farm workers demanding better wages in Peru raged on for a fourth day Thursday, spreading north into key agricultural areas of the Andean nation, derailing harvests of some crops, snarling transport of produce and leaving at least one dead. Peruvian interim President Francisco Sagasti […]

By Maria Cervantes

High food prices hurting India’s poor

Nov. 15, 2020 at 5:46 pm CST

New Delhi | Reuters — India’s retail inflation may stay elevated for at least three more months after hitting a six-year high in October, as excess rain has damaged standing crops and seedlings, while edible oils that the country imports have become expensive. The high prices are a particular cause […]

By Aftab Ahmed rajendra-jadhav

Feds line up projects for surplus food program

Aug. 14, 2020 at 1:22 am CDT

The federal government has lined up eight projects to source and distribute perishable produce, meat, eggs and seafood piling up across Canada due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of the federal pandemic response, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced in early May that Ottawa would budget $50 million for a […]

By Dave Bedard

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