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EU countries call for derogations on rules on small by-catches in Baltic Sea
02 May 2024 08:46 GMT
In a meeting of EU agriculture and fisheries ministers, member states supported the demand from Latvia and Lithuania to loosen some requirements of the fishing control rules, which only entered into force on 9 January.
A few months after adopting the new …
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Long working hours not common in Latvia
02 May 2024 07:38 GMT
… recorded in Bulgaria (0.4%), Lithuania and Latvia (1.1% each). Slightly … work long hours in Estonia (2%).
For Latvia the rate has decreased … more common among skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers (27.5% …
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Regenerative Ag Shift in Ukraine: How a Climate Fintech Startup Is Leading Restoration of 300,000 Hectares
04 May 2024 02:57 GMT
European climate tech HeavyFinance has signed 300,000 hectares of farmland in western and central Ukraine to its carbon farming programme, for a shift over to regenerative agriculture. Once farming practices across this extensive area have been shifted …
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Plukon Food Group acquiring HKScan Denmark
03 May 2024 18:23 GMT
Plukon Food Group has reached an agreement in principle to acquire the HKScan Denmark subsidiary of HKScan Corporation.
HKScan Denmark, founded in 1952, is a poultry slaughter and processing company that produces consumer packed poultry and high quality …
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EU struggles to secure another New Zealand-style trade deal
03 May 2024 12:44 GMT
The EU-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (FTA) officially entered into force on 1 May. The pact has put an end to a four-year trade drought, since Vietnam’s agreement in 2020, and the European Commission considers it a blueprint for future FTAs.
FTAs in the …
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Learnings in welfare from Scandinavian broiler farmers
01 May 2024 09:53 GMT
Kieron Daniels, Aviagen broiler technical services manager, looks after 8 countries across northern Europe and sees a diverse range of farms and customers. “In Finland we have a number of small family farms… while in Estonia they have different …
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Making a difference: New graduates of AgrIInstitute’s Agricultural Leadership Program
01 May 2024 03:49 GMT
… in the Baltics, which included Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
They’ve studied everything … the Ministry of Agriculture in Lithuania and his staff. They met … to vegetables. They learned about forestry projects. They also visited a …
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Atria reports first-quarter progress on margins, sustainability
30 Apr 2024 18:06 GMT
At first glance, the fiscal results for the January-March period just published by Atria Plc appear to show a dip in performance compared with the same period of 2023.
However, both sales and growth were exceptionally high in the comparative period last …
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Much better season for Egyptian dry garlic
30 Apr 2024 16:00 GMT
Strong demand for Egyptian dry garlic makes for a much more promising season than last year, says Ahmed Adel, CEO of Egyptian garlic exporter Global Veg Egy: "This year, the planted acreage this year for garlic has been very limited compared to the …
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Greeks Work Long Hours but Paid Little EU Statistics Show
03 May 2024 12:43 GMT
… Bulgaria (0.4 percent), Lithuania and Latvia (1.1 percent each). … common among skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers (27. … of all skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers) and … (11.9), Hungary (11), Latvia (10.7) and Romania (10 …