I’m not sure if this is the real start of spring, or a false dawn, but the recent weather has been welcome either way. It has ...

THE Teesta River is a vital transboundary river shared between India and Bangladesh, playing a crucial role in the ...

The Centre should call a stakeholders’ meeting, including States, and come out with a consensus estimate of wheat output ...

Microplastics are hindering photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert energy from the sun into the fruit and vegetables we eat. This threatens massive losses in crop and seafood production ...

To protect crops from rising droughts, scientists are looking to the genes of a small group of plants that can survive months ...

Grains such as maize, rice, wheat and sorghum, dominated food imports last year, accounting for P2.8 billion of the total ...

Russia, the world’s leading wheat exporter, delivered 21 million tonnes of the vital grain to Africa last year, largely ...

The use of a strip-till cultivator has halved the number of maize establishment passes and more than doubled work rate at a ...

This is the last part of the three-part series that investigates the dominance of wheat, its consequences and whether jowar ...

Goss’s wilt and leaf blight is caused by clavibacter nebraskensis, a bacterium named after Nebraska, where the disease was ...

Rising carbon dioxide boosts plant growth but reduces key nutrients, weakening global food quality and crop nutrition.

Warming food prices were primarily behind the increase in inflation to 2.7 percent in February from 2.5 percent in January, ...