Despite a bloc-wide ban on toxic pesticides that wipe out pollinators, several European Union member-states, including Greece, continue to export, mainly to poorer countrries.
AGRICULTURE
Veterinary inspectors have identified a case of African swine fever (ASF) in pig breeding farm in the Central Macedonian regional unit of Serres, the Ministry of Rural Development and Food has announced.
Farmers in northern Greece are desperately seeking help abroad to get their fruit and other crops picked, as local youth disdain farm work and the once-reliable Albanian farmhands now prefer to chase jobs in northern European Union countries.
A bear conservation group has released camera footage showing an adult bear raiding a bee farm on Mount Paiko in northern Greece and is advising beekeepers to keep a radio playing near their hives.
Third-country migrants working in Greek farms will have their residence permits extended to the end of the year, Migration Minister Notis Mitarakis said in Parliament on Monday.
Price hikes led to a deficit in the external balance of agricultural products in 2022, after two years, in 2020 and 2021, in which a surplus had been recorded.
The CEO of Mediterra and the Mastiha Research Center, Yannis Mandalas, talks about the popularity and increasing demand for Chios’ unique tree resin.
Piraeus Bank has disbursed more than 400 million euros in funding to the primary sector in 2022, with 60% of recipients being young farmers, the bank’s senior executives told journalists on Friday.
The Greek government on Wednesday unveiled a new package of support measures worth 800 million euros aimed at pensioners, taxpayers and enterprises hit by inflation.
Farmers in Fthiotida, central Greece, have rolled out their tractors at the Atalanti junction of the Athens-Lamia highway in support of colleagues who are meeting with government officials at the prime minister’s office in Athens.
Domestic wine consumption in Greece increased by 41.3% in the 2021-22 wine season compared to the 2020-21 season, approaching the high levels of 2013, 2014, according to a sectoral study on winemaking, prepared by the company Stochasis Management Consultancy.
Hospitality employers are asking for the importing of at least 80,000 workers from third countries, such as Bangladesh, Pakistan and the Balkans, with the aim of filling vacant positions.
Farmers will now be forewarned of impending frost via a new app funded and designed by the Ministry of Rural Development and Food in cooperation with National Meteorological Service.
Cyprus’ Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment is about to register the red potato, the countrys second most important agricultural product, with the European Union for which an application for registration has been published in the republic’s official gazette.
Police forces used chemicals to thwart an attempt on Monday by farmers to climb on to the E65 highway in Karditsa, Central Greece and set up a blockade.
The new management of the Antonis Tritsis Park in the western Athens suburb of Ilion will be offering local residents who are having trouble making ends meet small parcels of land where they can grow their own vegetables.
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