Fall armyworm, an invasive insect pest, has attacked maize crops in the districts of Una and Bilaspur of Himachal Pradesh, leaving farmers worried. This insect can cause damage to the maize leaves and ...

Vijayawada: Mentioning that Andhra Pradesh was a leading performer with a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 8.8% in the ...

Faulty seeds and an early monsoon season rain on its yield expectation as the crop struggles with compounding challenges.

A research team pioneers an automated, high-throughput pipeline using open-source tools to quantify over 50 root traits in diverse maize genotypes, enabling researchers to investigate how genetics, ...

Some farmers in Gombe State have also abandoned the cultivation of rice and maize, citing the high cost of fertiliser. Reports indicate that many of them have turned to cultivating millet, sorghum, ...

Nigeria's food security threatened by soaring fertiliser prices. Farmers abandon major crops like maize, rice due to high ...

TANZANIA has been lauded as a pioneering African nation for its groundbreaking national strategy that officially recognizes ...

Andhra Pradesh Governor S Abdul Nazeer has said India achieved a record food grain production of 353.95 million tonnes in 2024, increase of 6.5pc increase compared to the previous year, driven by ...

In 2013, David Matabaro, a cassava farmer from Ruhango District, saw his entire 26-hectare cassava plantation wiped out by the devastating Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD).

THE Kibaigwa International Crop Market in Kongwa District, Dodoma Region, is facing a significant maize shortage following poor harvests caused by below-average rainfall during the current season. Dr ...

Terming it a ‘cancer-causing farming’, Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS), the farmer’s wing of Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), ...