There is need for stakeholders in the agriculture sector to put in place mechanisms to lessen the burden of hunger and famine in some parts of the country.

NAIROBI: President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged farmers to embrace modern farming methods to increase production. He particularly appealed to small land holders not to resist new farming ideas and ...

Leading Indian farmer associations are planning to collaborate with the Foundation for Critical Choices for India (FCCI) to ...

ABOUT 250 residents of Taman Perwira Setia in Gombak, Selangor, learned about modern farming using nutrient film technique ...

AMES, Iowa — Public interest in the environment is increasing and the news is full of stories about food safety. Those developments have led many to push for a return to small organic farms. Such ...

In a world worried about looming food shortages triggered by the climate crisis, the collapse in rice prices — now approaching their lowest in 18 years — is evidence that interventions by governments ...

Nigeria is stepping up its efforts to reduce poverty by increasing productivity from agriculture through the Transforming Irrigation Management in Nigeria (TRIMING) Program. The World Bank, with ...

Soil salinization is a serious problem, especially in areas with less rainfall and increasingly arid climates. As climates change, flooding becomes more prevalent – another factor that leads to high ...

This 1930s footage offers a fascinating glimpse into agricultural and cultural life in Asia and Africa. In Japan, workers meticulously harvest rice, while in China, women beat grain from crops in ...

What if the future of farming didn’t involve sprawling fields or endless rows of crops under the open sky? What if the solution to feeding a growing global population lay not in expanding farmland but ...

ROURKELA: Indigenous aromatic and non-aromatic paddy cultivated with natural farming methods is showing moderate yields ...