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EU envoys strike new deal on Ukraine food imports

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Ambassadors from European Union countries reached a revised deal on Wednesday to extend tariff-free food imports from Ukraine - with restrictions - after some states complained the original agreement risked destabilizing the bloc's agricultural markets.
Scenic autumn view of the rural landscape, orchards, vineyards, and wineries of Oliver located in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, Canada. Photo: laughingmango/iStock/Getty Images Plus
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Local food system would reap big economic benefits researcher says

B.C. researchers found that the Okanagan could produce two thirds of its own food while maintaining exports

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Assuming an average Canadian diet, the Okanagan can currently produce 88 per cent of its dairy needs, Mullinix and colleagues wrote in a report on the study. It can produce 60 per cent of its poultry needs, 34 per cent of its fruit needs (due to fruits eaten that can’t be grown in the region, or are eaten out of season), and small amounts of other food groups like grains, red meat, eggs and oils.
The money will be aimed at improving living quarters for temporary foreign workers, the federal government said. Photo: Getty Images
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Agriculture workers not mentioned in TFW rule changes

Food processing sees foreign worker limit reduced by ten per cent; construction, healthcare exempted

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Reading Time: 2 minutes The federal government announced Thursday that, effective May 1, some sectors would be allowed no more than 20 per cent of their workforces to be made up of temporary foreign workers (TWFs) brought in via the low wage stream—down from 30 per cent since 2022. 
Polish farmers use tractors as they protest against the European Union’s Green Deal and imports of Ukrainian agricultural products, in Zakret, near Warsaw, Poland March 20, 2024. REUTERS/Aleksandra Szmigiel
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Polish farmers intensify protests against ‘executioner’ EU

Germany proposes income smoothing to reduce farmers' taxes in face of farmer anger

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Polish farmers blocked roads with tractors and flares on Wednesday in escalating protests against EU environmental regulations and cheap food imports from neighbouring Ukraine which the bloc provisionally agreed to prolong.
Farmers attend a Maha Panchayat or grand village council meeting as part of a farmers’ protest to press for the better crop prices promised to them in 2021, New Delhi, India, March 14, 2024. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
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Thousands of farmers rally in New Delhi to demand higher crop prices

Allowing farmers to enter the city seen as a concession from Modi government

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Thousands of farmers rode buses and trains from across India to gather on Thursday at a rally in the capital, New Delhi, pressing a demand for higher guaranteed prices for their crops, as they faced down police barricades and tough security.
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EU backs another year of access for Ukrainian food

Proposal includes tariff 'emergency brake' for some products in response to farmer protests

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Reading Time: 2 minutes European Union lawmakers approved on Thursday granting Ukrainian food producers tariff-free access to EU markets for another year, rejecting amendments that could have increased restrictions.
Polish farmers gather as they protest at Lithuanian border, alleging Ukrainian grain transports are brought back into Poland as ‘EU’ grain, and against European Union ‘Green Deal” near border crossing at Polish Lithuanian border in Budzisko, Poland, March 1, 2024. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
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Poland urges EU sanctions on Russian, Belarusian farm products

Polish farmers have been protesting EU environmental regulation, competition from Ukrainian imports

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Poland plans to ask the European Union to put sanctions on Russian and Belarusian agricultural products as it seeks to meet the needs of protesting farmers, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Monday during a visit to the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.
Grapes growing on a vine in a vineyard at Niagara on the Lake, Ontario. Photo: Linda Yolanda/iStock/Getty Images
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Wine sector support program extended

Program must continue to help Canadian wineries compete with imports, sector says

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Reading Time: < 1 minute A program that pays grants to Canadian wineries to help them adapt to industry and competitiveness challenges has been extended to 2027, the federal government announced today.

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