The French lemon festival gathers over 140 tons of citrus for elaborate floats and displays, but none of it is the prized Menton lemon due to scarcity. Menton was once a prominent lemon-growing region in Europe, but factors such as tourism led
Thousands of farmers protested on Thursday in India’s capital, demanding a new law for minimum crop prices. Due to barricaded highways, they traveled to New Delhi by crowded buses and trains instead of tractors. Authorities imposed conditions like banning farm vehicles and
Farmers in Zimbabwe, Africa’s largest tobacco producer, are predicting a sharp decline in harvests and quality. This is due to a drought blamed on climate change and worsened by the El Niño weather phenomenon. China is the primary buyer of Zimbabwe’s tobacco,
Labour has pledged to protect farms from flooding as heavy rainfall puts Britain’s produce at risk. Farmers’ yields have collapsed leaving consumers across the country facing acute shortages of potatoes, sprouts, carrots, parsnips, broccoli and cauliflower following intense flooding in recent months.
A frustrated father stripped down to just a crop top and tight jean shorts in protest at a school’s dress code. Ira Latham, from Arizona, was incensed at his children’s school loosening dress code standards that had not been updated since 2001.
Farmers have taken over the airport in the northern Mexico city of Culiacan to protest low prices for their corn and wheat crops. While the three-day blockade in Sinaloa state has caused the cancellation of dozens of flights, it has not drawn
Drought now affects 60% of the Spanish countryside, with crops like wheat and barley likely to fail entirely in four regions, the main Spanish farmers association said on Thursday. Spain’s long-term drought is causing “irreversible losses” to more than 3.5 million hectares