Category: Agricultural
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Brand Empowerment Helps Guangxi’s Agricultural Products Enter Domestic and International Markets
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Article content Nanning, China, Nov. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — On November 9th, a Liubao tea promotion event with the slogan “Liubao Tea Shines in China” was unveiled at the 2024 Guangxi International Agricultural Expo. Tea industry practitioners from all over the country gathered to exchange Their expertise and new…
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Agricultural insurance offers a good bet for boosting farm yields
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Kenya’s agricultural sector, which contributes about 20 percent of the country’s GDP and employs more than 40 percent of the population, faces increasing challenges due to climate change. The Food and Agriculture Organization estimates a staggering 490 trillion shillings ($3.8 trillion) of crop and livestock production have been lost over…
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Address policy hurdles agricultural sector SMEs face to spur job creation
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Agriculture is the key to Africa’s economic recovery. The African Development Bank expects the sector to generate $1 trillion in profits by 2030. Therefore, there is a need for bold agricultural reforms that strengthen smallholder farmers and direct investments towards this sector. Study of the 2022 Alliance for a Green…
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Speculation in agricultural land holds many pitfalls
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Every year, an average of about 3,100 privately owned agricultural plots are sold in Israel, for a total value of NIS 1.5 billion. This is 30% more than the average annual number of sales a decade ago, and the amounts involved are three times larger than in the first half…
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Call for targeted fertiliser and soil health strategy to unlock the continent’s agricultural potential
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Estimates indicate that the cost of land degradation due to poor soil health ranges between $850 and $1,400 per year per person, with a global cost of between $6.3 and $10.6 trillion annually. Reduced soil fertility not only reduces crop productivity, but also exacerbates the impacts of climate change by…