Food industry

An academic has successfully developed a biotechnological fertilizer that will increase crop yields by up to 70 percent and reduce the country's foreign dependence in terms of fertilizers.

Representatives of farmers have walked out of talks with the government, announcing a new protest rally, after the ruling coalition tabled a bill introducing what has been labelled as animal police.

Grain producers and other agricultural producers once again organized a protest near the "Danube Bridge" checkpoint near Ruse and blocked the traffic in the area of the border crossing with agricultural machines, reports BTA.

The heads of state and government of Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia sent a letter to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in which they call for a review of measures to counteract the negative effects of increased imports of agricultural products from Ukraine in these countries, reported the press office of the Bulgarian president.

In the 2020 corporate and social responsibility report of France's Lactalis, the world's leading dairy company, there is a section titled "Authentic Products and Heritage." In this section, the company states, among other things, that it is "committed to maintaining product diversity through the protection of know-how, especially Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) products."

A number of goods and services are expected to stabilize at high prices in Cyprus in the coming period, while food prices are expected to rise ahead of Easter. These are the conclusions drawn from the Consumer Price Index for the first two months of 2023, as well as reports from market professionals to Kathimerini Cyprus.

The government wants to see more young people at every stage of agricultural production, Agriculture and Forestry Minister Vahit Kirişçi has said.

"I consider food safety as the first priority of the 'Turkish Century' in agriculture," Kirişçi said at a meeting of the Agriculture-Forestry Workers Union in Ankara.

Global food prices fell in December for the ninth month in a row, but nevertheless rose 14 percent in 2022 compared to the previous year to record levels, the World Food Organization (FAO) reported to the United Nations, cited by "Reuters".

World food prices have fallen for a fifth consecutive month, partly thanks to the resumption of exports from Ukraine's Black Sea ports, a UN agency said on Sept. 2.

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