Farmers

In pictures: Indian farmers march to seek loan waivers

Farmers rally in financial and entertainment capital Mumbai, demanding land ownership and farm loan waivers.

Award-winning farming app boosts South Africa's small-scale farmers

In South Africa, millions of small-scale farmers find it hard to make ends meet with the lack of easy access to markets. But Khula app allows businesses to order fresh, organic vegetables straight from the ground.

Clashes near Indian capital as farmers protest agrarian policies

Indian police fire tear gas and water cannons to halt farmers from marching to New Delhi. The protesters are pressing for government help including higher support prices for agricultural goods, free electricity for their farms and waivers on loans.

Farmers in India protest for better wages

Thousands of farmers, workers and agricultural labourers rallied in India asking for better salaries, more jobs and an end to privatisation of state-run companies.

Turkey's hazelnut farmers hit by floods, currency fluctuations

Turkey is the world's biggest hazelnut producer. But this year, floods and currency fluctuations are eroding farmers profits.

Nigeria observes national mourning day for Benue victims

A national day of mourning has been declared in Nigeria on May 28, where people are calling for government intervention to end the violence between farmers and herders.

Indian farmers demand a long-term solution to agricultural decline

Farmers say they get poor prices for their products and most of the profit goes to middlemen, putting them in debt they can't handle.

EU warns Bayer Monsanto must not hurt competition in digital farming

Margrethe Verstager, the EU's Competition Commissioner, says farmers should be able to have a choice over seeds, pesticides, fungicides and insecticides after Bayer's merger with rival Monsanto.

Irish beef farmers say ‘hard' Brexit would hit access to UK markets

Ireland's farmers are hoping that Brexit does not complicate access to their biggest and closest market.

Tit-for-tat clashes between herdsmen and farmers kill 33 in Nigeria

Two days of violence between herders and farmers erupted when some villagers fatally attacked a young Fulani herder on Sunday in Kajuru village, 50 kilometres (30 miles) outside the city of Kaduna.

Zimbabwe tobacco profits fail to reach struggling farmers

Small time farmers are failing to see the benefits from a crop that is the southern African nation's second largest export earner of foreign exchange.

Government ban imperils India's meat and leather industries

A nationwide ban on the sale of cows and buffaloes is threatening the existence of India's meat and leather industries. Some state governments say the national government has exceeded its powers in the Hindu-majority nation, which reveres cows.