Agri-Business
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue has said that ongoing European support is needed for Ukraine.
Ukraine said that 270,000t of grain has been destroyed as a result of Russian attacks on the country's ports over the past month.
Pig/Poultry
The EU Commission has today (Thursday, July 27) approved a support scheme worth €113 million for Polish pig farmers.
The Russian government has announced that it is taking control of the Russian subsidiary of global food company Danone.
Farmers are set to lose around €800 million a year due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian Agri Council (UAC).
The destruction of a dam could result in farmland in the southern Ukraine turning into "deserts", the Ministry of Agrarian Policy warned.
Sustained flooding caused by the destruction of a dam in Ukraine will "disrupt farming activities", according to the United Nations (UN).
Ukrainian solution for recording losses in the agricultural sector is as one of the five finalists in an international competition.
€1 billion has been pledged to enhance EU-Ukraine Solidarity Lanes in a bid to enhance global food security and support the Ukraine economy.
Fertiliser giant Yara has warned that the very functioning of Europe is in peril without a strong domestic nitrogen industry.
The first cargo ship transporting grain from Ukraine since the Russian invasion began has landed in Turkey for inspection.
The European Commission is proposing to temporarily scrap the customs tariffs on imported goods used to produce fertiliser.
The European Council has today adopted a regulation to temporarily cut tariffs on selected agricultural produce from Moldova.
The European Union is expected to have 38 million tonnes of exportable wheat this year, according to a senior EU official.
The United Nations (UN) secretary-general said that a deal allowing the resumption of grain exports from Ukraine could be signed next week
The European Commission has today (Wednesday, July 6) confirmed that it has approved a €154 million Swedish support scheme for farmers.
The European Commission has today (Thursday, June 23) approved a €1 million Croatian scheme to support maize seed producers.
A new report has estimated that the Russian invasion has led to $4.3 billion (€4.06 billion) worth of agricultural damage in Ukraine.
"Food has become now part of the Kremlin's arsenal of terror and we cannot tolerate this," the European Commission president has said.
The United Nations (UN) said that food and fertiliser produced by Russia and Belarus must return to world markets despite the war in Ukraine.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has given seed potato kits to over 17,000 households in rural Ukraine.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations has called on the G7 nations to help anticipate future food shortages.
MEP Kelleher welcomed Kerry Group's decision to suspend its operations in Russia and calls on all Irish companies to stop business there.
