#agriculture

Farmers are feeling the pressure from rising production costs and unreliable water supply, MPs said on Monday as the government insisted it’s doing everything it can to support the ...

Women managed just 6.5 per cent of Cyprus’ utilised agricultural area in 2023, well below the EU average of 17.5 per cent, according to figures published by Eurostat on Thursday. The figures place ...

Recent rainfall across Cyprus has benefited the agricultural sector, with farming organisations welcoming the wet weather and reporting no significant damage on Thursday. “The rains were very beneficial in every ...

Five agricultural organisations on Tuesday called on Agriculture Minister Christos Senekis and Energy Minister Michael Damianos to extend the licence for grain storage at Larnaca port, which is due to ...

The Veterinary services are to officially record 3,000 cases of foot-and-mouth disease found in the summer in five livestock units, with the animals to be culled within days. The units in ...

Projects aimed at upgrading the local water infrastructure will total more than €200 million by 2030, Agriculture Minister Christos Senekis said on Wednesday. “Water cannot be addressed with short-term solutions, depending on ...

The Council of Ministers on Wednesday approved two financial support schemes worth €1.5 million for farmers facing higher production costs as a result of the crisis in the Middle East, particularly ...

The government presented a twelve-year plan worth some €610.9 million to rebuild the livestock sector on Friday, following the foot and mouth disease outbreak that led to the culling of more ...

Strengthening the primary sector is a matter of food security, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday evening, announcing at a dinner hosted for the Cyprus Grain Producers Organisation that the ...

Cyprus is forecast to see a significant rise in barley yield this year, according to the monthly crop monitoring bulletin published on Monday by the European Commission’s Joint Research ...

A new framework aimed at ending the uncontrolled dumping and burning of agricultural plastics shall head to the House, with farmers set to receive free collection points for waste. The ...

Israeli scientists have released around 200 predatory beetles in Cyprus in order to save the island’s prickly pear trees from a destructive invasive species. According to Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, ...

Changes in Cyprus’ landscape often happen gradually. A plant that once appeared healthy begins to weaken. A familiar patch of countryside looks slightly different from one year to the next. ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday that the veterinary services had deemed a second round of tests for foot and mouth (FMD) unnecessary, calling on all parties to cooperate in ...

Agricultural resilience and food security were at the centre of discussions during the European Union’s Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting in Brussels on Tuesday, held under the Cyprus presidency, ...

European Affairs Deputy Minister Marilena Raouna on Monday hailed the European Union’s new simplified rules regarding the use of biocides in food and feed production, while the Council of ...

The EU–Mercosur trade agreement continues to hang “like a sword of Damocles over the heads of farmers”, Akel MEP Giorgos Georgiou cautioned on Wednesday, warning that recent safeguards approved ...

Police on Wednesday arrested a 66-year-old man in Limassol on suspicion of extorting €32,000 from a couple under false pretences in connection with the alleged sale of agricultural land. According to ...

MPs on Tuesday demanded that the government temporarily suspend charging farmers for using water from boreholes, a move farmers say could deal them the final blow and drive them out ...

Severe reductions in water supply to agriculture will have devastating consequences for farmers and consumers alike, agricultural association president Kyriakos Kailas cautioned on Saturday. Kailas described the scale of the ...

Water resources will remain under full state control, the water development department (WDD) insisted in a statement issued on Wednesday. The department stressed that under existing law, water is a ...

The EU-Mercosur agreement was scrutinised on Wednesday at the House agriculture committee, focusing on the impact it will have on the rural economy, with minister Maria Panayiotou assuring that the ...

Agricultural payments in 2025 reached €138.7 million, while the total amount the Republic has received from the EU since it acceded in 2004 totals €2.3 billion, commissioner Andreas Kyprianou said on Friday. Speaking at ...

The cabinet on Wednesday approved €1 million in emergency aid to help farmers cope with rising electricity costs caused by prolonged drought. Over the past three years, reduced rainfall has cut ...