DAVAO CITY -- Social enterprise Coffee for Peace is planning to help expand arabica coffee production in Alamada, Cotabato to meet growing demand from foreign markets.

FARM financing platform Cropital said it hopes to release up to P100 million in loans by the end of 2019, which will bring its farmer beneficiaries to about 2,500.

THE Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said the average farmgate price of palay, or unmilled rice, fell 0.6% week-on-week in the first week of July to P17.78 per kilogram (kg).

PARIS -- Farmers have been ordered to stop harvesting in France’s second largest grain producing department Oise after hundreds of hectares of fields caught fire during an intense heat wave.

JIAXIANG, CHINA -- On a 30-hectare (74-acre) plot of land in China’s Shandong province poultry hub, more than half a million white-feathered ducks are busy eating, chattering and laying eggs to produce cheap meat for thousands of factory canteens.

FARMERS said the government should focus on helping small farmers instead of imposing suggested retail price on rice, which they called a means for traders to take advantage of farmers.

FISHERFOLK can be taught to look after the environment while earning a livelihood with the proper instruction, the Department of Science and Technology (DoST) said.

BUENOS AIRES -- Argentina’s world-famous ranchers are culling their breeding cows at the highest rate in 30 years and tapping Chinese demand for meat in order to help pay their bills as access to credit has dried up for farmers in South American’s No. 2 economy.

MOSCOW -- The Agriculture Ministry said on Tuesday it saw Russia’s grain crop rising as high as 150.3 million tonnes by 2035 in an “optimistic scenario” as it outlined a draft strategy to invest billions of dollars in grain infrastructure and logistics.

NEW YORK -- US ethanol plants are expected to sharply curtail production in the weeks ahead as steep Midwest corn prices and the US-China trade war have led to weak margins and oversupply, industry sources said.

NEW DELHI -- Every year, tens of millions of Hindus flock to the Venkateswara Temple in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh to pay tribute to site’s patron deity and pick up some of its famous sweets, the legendary “Tirupati laddu.”

DAVAO CITY -- Mindanao farmers, including agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARB), have put together a list of expected government interventions needed to boost the agricultural sector, highlighting high-value crops.