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Italy To Offer Permits To Irregular Migrants For Farm Work In COVID-19 Crisis

Italy plans to give work permits to thousands of irregular migrants to help farms deal with the COVID-19 epidemic that has cut the flow of cheap labour fro...

Russian Wheat Export Prices Down With Global Benchmark

Russian wheat export prices fell last week after several weeks of growth, tracking a decline in benchmark Chicago futures, analysts said on Monday. A Ru...

South Africa To Reopen Agriculture Sector, Allow More Manufacturing, Retail

South Africa plans to reopen its agriculture sector and allow some manufacturing and retail to resume as the country balances the need to restart economic...

Belgian Farmers Struggle With Absent Workers, Closed Markets

Farmer Luc Warnez is very clear on the two issues threatening his business since the coronavirus outbreak - who will pick the strawberries in his fiel...

UAE Farms See Boom Not Gloom In Coronavirus Lockdowns

As coronavirus lockdowns crush businesses around the world, high-tech farming projects in the United Arab Emirates are eyeing large growth as authorities p...

Amazon Testing Disinfectant Fog At New York Warehouse

Amazon.com Inc is testing the use of disinfectant fog at a warehouse in Staten Island, New York, the company told Reuters, following worker protests over t...

Three Meat Plants Shut In Iowa And Pennsylvania As Coronavirus Outbreak Spreads

Major US meat companies have said that they shut three facilities that produce pork and beef in Iowa and Pennsylvania in the latest disruption to the count...