South African farmers are projected to yield 17% more maize in the 2024/2025 season, with the Crop Estimates Committee ...

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, ...

By combining image-based phenotyping with gene expression analysis, the research reveals significant variability in root morphology and ...

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

For the first of these tasks Dr Baker and his colleagues use RF diffusion, an AI model they have developed to predict a ...

Rice pass more dan just staple food. For more dan half of di world population, na staple of daily life – na symbol of culture ...

Across Kashmir’s Pulwama, fields once filled with apples now bloom with lavender — a crop that’s cheaper to grow, easier to ...

In rural Tanzania, farming is a way of life. Families pass down traditional knowledge to help grow crops like beans and maize ...

Dr Peterson Wambugu, a chief research scientist with the national gene bank at the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research ...

IIT Bombay, alongside IITM Pune, has developed a smart irrigation model that reduces water usage by up to 30%. The system utilizes weather forecasts and soil moisture data, predicting irrigation needs ...

Heatwaves and drought have taken a toll on East Anglia's crop yields - but farmers said early results from the 2025 harvest ...