Tag: cultivation
UN report: Opium cultivation in Myanmar is increasing again
Status: 01/26/2023 1:57 p.m In hardly any other region of the world are so many drugs produced and traded as in the border area between Myanmar, Thailand and Laos. However,…
Middle sense: Trouble over the cultivation of Christmas trees – Bavaria
Yesterday was the first night in years, says Uwe Klug on the phone, that he was able to sleep peacefully again. The 50-year-old Christmas tree grower sounds elated. There’s a…
Cacao cultivation and rainforest: The high price of chocolate
Status: 06.12.2022 08:23 In the Christmas season it is particularly in demand again: chocolate. But cocoa cultivation continues to destroy huge areas of rainforest – and child labor is still…
UN report: Opium cultivation in Afghanistan has increased rapidly
Status: 11/01/2022 2:45 p.m According to a UN report, opium cultivation in Afghanistan has increased by almost a third since the beginning of the year compared to the previous year.…
Poppy cultivation has increased by 32% since the return of the Taliban
Despite the bans, the Taliban, who took power in Afghanistan in August 2021, are unable to curb opium poppy cultivation. This has indeed increased by 32% over one year in…
We visited a cannabis cultivation operation
In a small town in the European Metropolis of Lille (MEL), a particular type of farm was set up a little over a year ago. No cows, corn stalks or…
Özdemir puts environmental protection aside in favor of wheat cultivation – politics
Germany’s farmers should be able to use more land for grain cultivation due to the tense situation on the international agricultural markets. This is the plan of Federal Minister of…
War-related supply bottlenecks: Özdemir wants to enable more grain cultivation
Status: 06.08.2022 2:34 p.m Germany should actually be growing less grain from 2023 – because of species protection. But in view of the delivery bottlenecks, Minister of Agriculture Özdemir now…
Özdemir proposes a compromise on grain cultivation in Germany – economy
In view of the strained international agricultural markets as a result of the Ukraine war, farmers in Germany can use more land for growing grain. To this end, the new…
Inflation and less cultivation: Weakest strawberry harvest in 24 years
Status: 07/21/2022 1:01 p.m The Federal Statistical Office expects the weakest strawberry harvest in Germany since 1998. A lack of demand and low prices have evidently prompted many farmers not…