Agronomy

Under eight metres of water close to Italy’s Ligurian coast, what look like giant jellyfish are tethered to the seabed.

Sergio Gamberini, the entrepreneur who designed these striking biospheres, thinks they may offer one answer to feeding the world’s growing population.

The Agriculture Fund has paid EUR 227M in grants under the so-called green direct payments scheme, according to BNR.

Turkey and six African countries signed cooperation deals in agriculture, fisheries and livestock in the Mediterranean resort province of Antalya on April 28.    

The first Turkey-Africa Agriculture Ministers Meeting and Agribusiness Forum will be held in the Mediterranean resort province of Antalya on April 27-28. 

Dow Turkey announced in a press release on April 21 that it had received the Low Carbon Hero award at the Istanbul Carbon Summit, which was organized for the third time by the Sustainable Production and Consumption Association (SPCA). 

Romania is to invest 550 million euro in rehabilitating its largely disused irrigation network, covering 750,00 hectares by 2020, with most of the money coming from the European Union.

A home-made bomb has exploded in the building of the State Agency on Selection and Reproduction of Stock Breeding, located on the Bistrishko Shousse 26 in Sofia. Information on the incident has been received shortly prior to midnight on Sunday.

There is no information on people injured. There are, however, some damages done to the office building.

Romanian farmers could receive compensations from the state budget this year, to the extent to which the drought damages the crops, unless the European Commission rejects this measure, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Daniel Constantin, informed on Monday.

The index of producer prices in agriculture in the first quarter of 2015 decreased by 5.1% on the year, according to data of Bulgaria's National Statistical Institute (NSI).

The crop output index decreased by 5.6% and the animal output index - by 4.6%.

The increase of the productivity in agriculture and the processing of the domestic production are two major goals upon which we base our Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the coming years, Agriculture and Rural Development Daniel Constantin declared on Wednesday at a conference for launching the first measures of the new National Programme for Rural Development (PNDR).