Fodder

Plastics or cosmetics made from espresso coffee grounds, a plastic substitute from banana peels, yogurt packaging or even pizza boxes, animal feed with protein from worms that feed on fruit, vegetable and even beer waste: These are some Greek-origin green ideas that attempt to utilize tons of waste food or plastic, reintroducing products made with strange ingredients to the market.

In the last 12 months, the cost of running Jean-Marie Dirat's lamb farm in southwest France has jumped by 35,000 euros ($38,000), driven up by increasingly expensive fertilisers, fuel, electricity and pesticides.

Money is so tight that this year he won't pay himself. To his surprise, he even calculated he would be eligible for the minimum welfare benefit, given to society's poorest.

Bulgarian Agriculture Minister Kiril Vatev engaged in an online discussion with Ukrainian counterpart Mykola Solsky, focusing on violations in the export licensing system for key crops like sunflower, rapeseed, maize, and wheat. Vatev highlighted concerns over attempts to bypass licensing requirements through specific imports, vowing that corrective action is necessary.

Argentina lost half of its seasonal soybean harvest in its main production area, the rich and normally humid center of the country, due to drought, the Rosario Stock Exchange has said.

Russia's war on Ukraine has sent grain prices skyrocketing, a worry for consumers worldwide but potentially a boon for producers like Argentina, which hopes an influx of soybean "agridollars" will boost its faltering economy.    

In a bid to make their job easy, villagers in the southeastern province of Hakkari's Yüksekova district have come up with an innovative method of using a 3,000-meter-long zipline to transport hay bales collected from mountains to their villages during the summer months.

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They used a compound found in soybeans

Interior Minister Marcel Vela announced on Thursday evening that exports of wheat, barley, oats, corn, rice, wheat flour, soybeans, seed oil and sugar are to be suspended during the state of emergency. AGERPRES (RO - author: Daniel Alexandru Florea, editor: Antonia Nita; EN - editor: Adina Panaitescu)

However, experts, according to the media, are warning that these products are most likely finding their way to our tables. It's about processed food of foreign origin.

The final rapeseed crop figures published by the Ag Ministry of Bulgaria were left unchanged from their preliminary level. As a reminder, the 2017/18 total rapeseed crop amounted to 479 KMT that is down almost 6% from the previous year. The harvested area was the smallest in four years, at 160.7 Th ha, while yield was the highest on record in Bulgaria, at 2.98 MT/ha.