Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla urged farmers, scientists, and industry leaders to boost India’s oilseed production, reducing import dependency. Speaking at the...
Tanzania prioritizes sunflower in its Agricultural Transformation Master Plan 2050 to tackle edible oil shortages. The government promotes irrigation farming and subsidized...
Sugar prices rose modestly on Thursday, with NY sugar #11 up 1.57% and London ICE white sugar #5 gaining 1.18%. Prices have...
A World Bank study reveals that Sub-Saharan Africa’s contribution to global food yield growth remains minimal, despite its vast arable land potential....
Climate change has affected crop yields through CO2 fertilization, temperature shifts, and altered water availability. While higher CO2 levels boost photosynthesis and...
In Sonepat, Haryana, farmer Rajbir Singh lost over 60% of his rice crop due to heavy rains on September 19-20, just before...
Russia's IKAR agricultural consultancy has cut its forecast for Russia's wheat crop to 81.8 million metric tons from 82.2 million tons and for...
In the 2023-24 period, Telangana became India's top rice-producing state, with a record 168.75 lakh metric tonnes (LMT), contributing 12.5% of the...
The Kenyan government will buy maize from farmers at Sh4,000 per 90-kg bag, as per Agriculture PS Paul Ronoh. Farmers can sell...