According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the country's high-standard farmland has expanded to about 67 ...

If your primary vision of a family farmer is someone dressed in overalls and carrying a pitchfork, you are in for a stark awakening on March 21-22. That’s when dozens of companies, organizations and ...

Farmers can also grow crops that can handle the high saline content either in soil or in irrigation water. Those with high ...

The World Economic Forum says the world faces a new crisis, “One-third of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions come from food production.” With the world’s population expected to reach 10 billion ...

Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have engineered sorghum plants with more upright leaves that produce higher yields while using the same amount of water, according to a news ...

In Ghana, vegetable farming remains a vital source of food and income for thousands of smallholder farmers. Yet, the sector continues to grapple with persistent challenges, especially low yields and ...

As of now, around 50 percent of this season's watermelon crop has been harvested in the Khulna agricultural zone, with full harvesting expected by October ...

This week, I received an email from a reader in response to last week’s column on three ways to grow agriculture advocacy. The opening line of the email said: “Does that mean you don't want to hear ...

It’s a recurring disaster that can seem like a biblical plague: bees cropping up covered in parasites, with deformed wings, or slaughtering their own larvae. Sometimes workers will vanish from the ...

Last June, I quit my office job and booked a flight to France. I was 24 and dewy-eyed, and I wanted to farm—or, at least, I wanted to try. A few weeks later, I was face-to-face with 64 goat udders, ...