Agriculture minister Norikazu Suzuki has inspected onigiri rice ball and Japanese food shops, as well as local supermarkets, in Paris as he hopes to expand Japanese rice exports. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/16/japan/farm-minister-paris-visit-rice-exports/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #norikazusuzuki #paris #rice #agriculture #maff
Agriculture minister Norikazu Suzuki has visited the Japanese unit of U.S. company Oishii Farm, which develops factories to grow fruit and other plants. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/13/japan/farm-minister-plant-factory-developer/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #norikazusuzuki #agriculture #maff #us #food
Grégory Gutierez 🌻🎸🐧
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‼️ Les deux porte-paroles nationaux de la @ConfPaysanne viennent d'être interpellés par la police !
Cette répression de représentants syndicaux est absolument inacceptable. La mobilisation des agriculteurs contre l'abattage total et le Mercosur est plus que légitime.
@AnnieGenevard et @NunezLaurent il est temps de traiter autrement les agriculteurs de notre pays !
‼️ Les deux porte-paroles nationaux de la @ConfPaysanne viennent d'être interpellés par la police !
Cette répression de représentants syndicaux est absolument inacceptable. La mobilisation des agriculteurs contre l'abattage total et le Mercosur est plus que légitime.
@AnnieGenevard et @NunezLaurent il est temps de traiter autrement les agriculteurs de notre pays !
Joachim
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#Anecdotique ? La population française d'oiseaux insectivores a augmenté de 3% en 2022. Il semblerait que cette bonne nouvelle fasse suite à l'interdiction des néonicotinoïdes survenue en 2018.
#oiseaux #nature #france #pesticides #agriculture #biodiversité #insectes
#Anecdotique ? La population française d'oiseaux insectivores a augmenté de 3% en 2022. Il semblerait que cette bonne nouvelle fasse suite à l'interdiction des néonicotinoïdes survenue en 2018.
#oiseaux #nature #france #pesticides #agriculture #biodiversité #insectes
Grégory Gutierez 🌻🎸🐧
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Bonjour, @guillaumemeurice a un message pour vous 😇 1/
#splann #bretagne #journalisme #journaliste #enquete #presse #investigation #politique #ecologie #biodiversite #pollution #agriculture #alimentation #agroalimentaire #agroindustrie #agrobusiness #democratie #liberté #droitshumains #environnement #corruption #journal #redaction
Bonjour, @guillaumemeurice a un message pour vous 😇 1/
#splann #bretagne #journalisme #journaliste #enquete #presse #investigation #politique #ecologie #biodiversite #pollution #agriculture #alimentation #agroalimentaire #agroindustrie #agrobusiness #democratie #liberté #droitshumains #environnement #corruption #journal #redaction
Japan's rice policy is at a crossroads as prices of the country's staple food stay around record highs, squeezing households. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/28/japan/japan-rice-policy-crossroads/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #rice #agriculture #maff #norikazusuzuki
For decades, Israeli settlers have built outposts on West Bank land without official authorization that, in many cases, end up being accepted by Israel as formal settlements. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/26/world/society/israel-hilltop-settlers-expel-palestinians/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #israel #palestinians #agriculture
As more societies approach planetary boundaries like Iran's destabilizing water crisis, responses that once seemed drastic or utopian will begin to look like common sense. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/26/world/if-communism-is-the-only-option/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #iran #communism #rain #water #agriculture
Chip Butty
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In the Pacific Northwest? Want to help farmers operate more efficiently? Have experience in agricultural sales or related areas? Looking for a new job?
Harvest Source is a new type of agriculture supply company, and they are looking for you!
In the Pacific Northwest? Want to help farmers operate more efficiently? Have experience in agricultural sales or related areas? Looking for a new job?
Harvest Source is a new type of agriculture supply company, and they are looking for you!
European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen was supposed to sign the European Union’s largest free-trade agreement on Saturday, proving the bloc’s standing as a geoeconomic force. That didn't happen. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/22/economy/europe-stumbles-trump-world-order/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #eu #southamerica #trade #us #china #donaldtrump #agriculture #italy #globaleconomy
Billy Smith
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"Master's degree (2 years)
Full time
Urban Agriculture
How do we get greener and more sustainable cities? Which social, technological and economical aspects are connected with urban food production? How may urban farming become more than plants grown in the city?
Urban Agriculture will from autumn 2026 be one of three specializations in a new Master in Sustainable Food Futures. The admission requirements will still be similiar as today." https://www.nmbu.no/en/studies/master-2-year/urban-agriculture #Agriculture #Norway
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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The Frozen Gamble of Icewine
Canada's world-famous icewine is high-stakes agricultural art. To earn the 'icewine' title in #Canada, the grapes must be harvested while naturally frozen solid on the vine. Growers anxiously wait for a sustained cold snap, between -8°C and -13°C, then pick the grapes, often at night. This process yields a tiny amount of highly concentrated, sweet juice, making icewine a prized delicacy. #Agriculture #Icewine #Niagara #BC
A lax regulatory environment has led to the widespread abuse of farmworkers — including threats of violence, stolen wages and forced labor.
Experts say the Fair Food Program's reforms could help.
But few farms have signed on.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fair-food-program-farmworker-abuse-exploitation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Agriculture #Farming #Immigration #Labor #Abuse #Exploitation #Immigrants
Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide
#HackerNews #farmers #Parkinsons #pesticide #health #issues #agriculture
The price of a rice coupon that will be sold to municipalities in Japan will go down from the usual ¥500 to a uniform ¥477, the national federation of rice wholesalers' mutual aid cooperative associations has said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/12/japan/society/rice-coupon-wholesalers-group/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #rice #agriculture
Egon Willigh☮gen 🟥
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Recently I dove into the Dutch RVO webservices to get agricultural field data. Dealing with legacy SOAP, GML and PKIO certificates was... an experience. I therefore build a TypeScript package that can act as a connector and handle the heavy lifting and just output a modern GeoJSON (including reprojection to WGS84). I made it open-source at https://github.com/SvenVw/rvo-connector. It's a start as it now only supports requesting fields and not altering fields yet #TypeScript #rvo #Agriculture #netherlands