je.st
news
Tag: farmers
Farmers Need Contingency Plan for Brexit
2016-03-02 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - A contingency plan for agriculture should the UK vote to leave the European Union on June 23 is absolutely essential according to the Farmers’ Union of Wales.
Tags: plan
farmers
contingency
contingency plan
With pollinators in decline around the world, conservationists turn to traditional farmers for answers
2016-03-01 06:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ensia: In northwestern India, the Himalaya Mountains rise sharply out of pine and cedar forests. The foothills of the Kullu Valley are blanketed with apple trees beginning to bloom. Its a cool spring morning, and Lihat Ram, a farmer in Nashala village, shows me a small opening in a log hive propped against his house. Stout black-and-yellow native honeybees -- Apis cerana -- fly in and out. For centuries, beehives have been part of the architecture of mountain homes here, built into the thick outside...
Tags: world
turn
traditional
answers
More agricultural credit, farmers' income to be doubled by 2022: Jaitley
2016-03-01 00:46:20| Agriculture - Topix.net
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Monday that agriculture and farmers' welfare was a pillar of the government's agenda to transform India and it would strive to double income of farmers by 2022. Presenting the 2016-17 union budget, he said the target for agricultural credit in the coming fiscal will be an all-time high of Rs.9 lakh crore and an online procurement system will be undertaken through the Food Corporation of India, while laying stress on optimal utilisation of water resources, creating new infrastructure for irrigation, conserving soil fertility and connectivity from farm to markets.
Tags: credit
income
agricultural
farmers
Farmers Say Retailers Must Go Further to Support Scottish Pig Industry
2016-02-29 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
SCOTLAND - UK - With Scottish pig prices at an eight-year low, some of Scotland’s major retailers must go further to support the Scottish pig sector through troubled times.
Tags: support
industry
farmers
scottish
New Lung Programme Helps Pig Farmers Review Respiratory Diseases
2016-02-29 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - Two organisms that can cause serious respiratory diseases in pigs are the bacteria Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae and Actinobacillus pleuropneumonia. Vaccination is used to help farmers prevent infections but due to complexities, vaccination procedures may need to be reviewed or improved.
Tags: review
helps
programme
diseases
Sites : [155] [156] [157] [158] [159] [160] [161] [162] [163] [164] [165] [166] [167] [168] [169] [170] [171] [172] [173] [174] next »