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Less land available to grow food locally will lead to rise in prices of imported produce

Official lampuki season is from August through to the end of December

In Biblical terminology, a pomegranate is a metaphor for the richness of the promised land. But the sweetness of the fruit in January spells the promise of a Paradise Lost by the crisis of man-made climate change

Farmers have become entrapped in European policies that are visionary on paper but sometimes shoddily implemented or inconsiderate of local realities

Warmer weather means higher yields, though some fruit trees are suffering

Oriental hornets have been responsible for the decimation of 70% of Maltese beehives, which will result in problems with honey production and potential repercus

Farmers hope a new authority to manage agricultural land leased to them by private landowners, will secure the national food supply by protecting them from the market’s extortionate prices for rural land

Farmers are relieved that tilled land will no longer be sold off to the highest bidder as so-called ‘recreational land’ but they are waiting with ba

Updated 4.20pm, adds PN statement Up to 75 per cent of farmers who till private land risk being evicted from their rented fields, an agricultural lobby group h

Farmers have enlisted the help of a satellite imaging expert in their fight against the leasing of agricultural land to the highest bidder.    M