Land management

The allocation of Istanbul University's Botanical Garden to the Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) in 2015 for the use of the Istanbul Mufti's Office has stirred a debate in Turkey, with the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) blasting the move. 

The allocation of Istanbul University's Botanical Garden to the Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) in 2015 for the use of the Istanbul Mufti's Office has stirred a debate in Turkey, with the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) blasting the move. 

This is the moment an underground water pipe exploded, sending rocks and soil flying and damaging nearby cars and buildings.

The huge bulge of soil exploded into the air after a high-pressure water pipe burst in the Ukrainian capital city of Kiev on Monday.

The spectacular explosion left a huge hole in the ground as muddy water flooded the streets!

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.

In our country, coal power plants are being opened one after the other. Almost every day we say, "Agriculture has died; we import everything." To be able to understand the relationship between the two, let us look at how coal investments affect agriculture. 

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.

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).

Romania will advocate before the European Commission 1-billion-euro funds for its main irrigation infrastructure under the Juncker programme, given that under its National Rural Development Programme 370 million euros were approved for the rehabilitation of the secondary irrigation infrastructure, Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Daniel Constantin said Friday.

BELGRADE - Serbian agriculture is dominated by mixed farms, since more than half of all the farms in the country (53.7 percent) belong to one of three groups of farms that both grow crops and breed animals, according to what has been said at the Belgrade Chamber of Commerce.

The Government's fundamental objective is, through the policies promoted in agriculture, to help family farms take the step, over the coming years, from subsistence agriculture to modern one, Prime Minister Victor Ponta told Wednesday's national conference 'Family Farm - Agriculture's Core'.