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An unusually early, record-shattering heat wave in India has reduced wheat yields, raising questions about how the country will balance its domestic needs with ambitions to increase exports and make up for shortfalls due to Russia's war in Ukraine.

More and more farmers that are concerned about the adverse effects of climate change are buying insurance policies to protect them against potential financial losses due to drought.

In the first three months of 2022, a record number of growers applied for this particular insurance.

No problems will occur in grain supplies until the new harvest season, the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry has said after the Ukraine-Russia crisis erupted.

"It is envisaged that no supply shortage will emerge in grains, particularly wheat, until the next harvest season," the ministry said in a written statement on Feb. 24.

The recent discovery unearthed by archeologists in Germany is a blackened hazelnut-and-almond cake destroyed by WWII bombings

Under the headline "All my friends went home," the British newspaper Guardian published an article about the post-Brexit life of a Bulgarian woman in Britain who picks strawberries on a farm that no longer has EU workers.

Rising global temperatures and the expected increase in the frequency of droughts from every 10 years to every five years pose a grave threat to food security in the world, the head of the International Association of Operative Millers (IAOM) Eurasia warned on Nov. 12.

Coffee is sold 4-6% more on the shelves of supermarket chains, while in restaurants there have been increases ranging from 5% to 20%. However, individual professionals, especially in the region, have raised prices by up to 33%.

The young Turkish generation has expanded the diversity of coffee consumption in Turkey, preferring to drink filter coffees or espressos, but Turkish coffee is still the most consumed coffee, daily Milliyet has reported.

"After Y, we have generation Z in Turkey, but Turkish coffee is still the king," the daily headlined on Oct. 8.

Istanbul Coffee Festival (ICF), one of the two biggest coffee festivals in Europe, is set to kick off its seventh annual gathering today at KüçükÇiftlik Park in the Maçka/Harbiye neighborhood of the largest Turkish metropolis, Istanbul.

Europe's First Factory Producing Edible Cups Set into Operation in Plovdiv

Production of edible biodegradable coffee cups has started in Bulgaria's Plovdiv and the factory is the first of its kind in Europe.