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Business
Taiwan fruit, fish farmers feel squeeze of China’s sanctions
TAIPEI: As a Taiwanese fighter jet screamed over the lush green fields of eastern Hualien county last week, pomelo farmer…
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World
Indian farmers head home after year-long protest
NEW DELHI: Thousands of Indian farmers packed their belongings and dismantled tent cities on the outskirts of Delhi yesterday as…
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Business
Turkey’s hazelnut farmers fume at Nutella ‘monopoly’
AKYAZI, Turkey: Kneeling from dawn till dusk, the Turkish farmers picking most of the hazelnuts going into Nutella spreads complain…
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Business
Malaysia’s highland farmers fight for survival in pandemic
CAMERON HIGHLANDS, Malaysia: Vast tea plantations spread out over Malaysia’s rugged highlands, where a network of greenhouses harvests fruit, vegetables…
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Lifestyle
Farmers and football: The Vietnamese women scoring big on the field
Legs stiff from long days in the rice terraces of northern Vietnam, scores of female farmers dressed in colorful cloth…
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Business
In Peru, pre-Columbian canals offer hope against drought
HUAROCHIRI, Peru: In the mountains of western Peru, a farming community is restoring a network of stone canals built more…
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Health
India’s desert salt farmers feel the heat from climate change
LITTLE RANN OF KUTCH, India: Roshni Thakor left school to harvest salt from a sun-baked Indian desert, a backbreaking trade…
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Subcontinent
Milk and music: Indian villages support protesting farmers
MAKRAULI, India: Blasting catchy pro-farmer songs from a speaker, an electric-blue tractor rattled down an Indian village road collecting pails…
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Subcontinent
Delhi clashes overshadow army parade
NEW DELHI: Thousands of Indian farmers fought street battles with police across New Delhi yesterday as they took protests against…
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Subcontinent
Telecom towers targeted amid Indian protests
AMRITSAR: This photo taken on Monday shows farmers standing near telecom towers of Reliance Jio during a demonstration against the…
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Subcontinent
Indian PM makes fresh appeal to farmers
NEW DELHI: This handout photograph taken on Friday and released by the Indian Press Information Bureau (PIB), shows Indian Prime…
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Subcontinent
Foot massages, tattoos and dentists for India farmers
SILIGURI: Activists and supporters of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) collect funds from the shop owners in support of…
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