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Start ups bringing Pakistan's farming into digital age

Jan 30, 2022 (AFP)

Until recently, "the most modern machine we had was the tractor", Aamer Hayat Bhandara, a farmer and local councillor behind one such project told AFP in "Chak ...

X-rays will make plant diets of the future more tasty

Jan 27, 2022 (SPX)

Such a fantasy could become reality if the Small Angle X-ray Scattering method is used, known as SAXS. By using X-rays, SAXS makes it possible to study food at ...

NASA Spinoffs help fight coronavirus, clean pollution, grow food, more

Jan 26, 2022 (SPX)

"The value of NASA is not confined to the cosmos but realized throughout our country - from hundreds of thousands of well-paying jobs to world-leading climate s...

Fickle sunshine slows down Rubisco and limits photosynthetic productivity of crops

Jan 21, 2022 (SPX)

"Rubisco plays a central role in photosynthesis and frequently limits carbon assimilation in crop plants," said Elizabete Carmo-Silva, professor of crop physiol...

In UK 'rhubarb triangle', spring arrives in January

Jan 19, 2022 (AFP)

For four generations, Tomlinson's family have been cultivating "forced rhubarb" in the winter months at their farm in Pudsey, northern England, and are profitin...

Hong Kong watchdog shell-shocked no crustacean in lobster meatballs

Jan 17, 2022 (AFP)

Meatballs are ubiquitous in food-obsessed Hong Kong -- offered up on skewers by lunchtime food vendors and also a popular menu item in hot pot and barbeque rest...

Ozone pollution costs Asia billions in lost crops: study

Jan 17, 2022 (AFP)

While ozone forms a protective layer around the Earth in the upper atmosphere, it is a harmful pollutant at ground level. It is created by a chemical reaction w...

Powerful sensors on planes detect crop nitrogen with high accuracy

Jan 14, 2022 (SPX)

Predicting the amount of nitrogen needed by a particular crop in a particular year is tricky. The first step is understanding crop nitrogen status in real time,...

Transforming farming with farmer led experimentation

Jan 13, 2022 (SPX)

Critics also suggest that research has been prone to generating information that is less actionable, and is structured so that recommendations tend to trickle d...

Ancient Mesopotamian discovery transforms knowledge of early farming

Jan 13, 2022 (SPX)

"Overall, the presence of millet in ancient Iraq during this earlier time period challenges the accepted narrative of agricultural development in the region as ...

Too much meat? Spain factory farming debate creates beef

Jan 09, 2022 (AFP)

In an interview published in British daily The Guardian, Consumer Affairs Minister Alberto Garzon lashed out against Spain's "so-called mega-farms", calling the...

Sri Lanka bows to Chinese pressure over fertiliser

Jan 08, 2022 (AFP)

The state-run People's Bank of Sri Lanka said it paid Qingdao Seawin Biotech Group $6.87 million in connection with an out-of-court settlement over the shipment...

Chinese national pleads guilty to economic espionage

Jan 06, 2022 (AFP)

Xiang Haitao, 44, was employed as an imaging scientist by Monsanto and its subsidiary, The Climate Corporation, from 2008 to 2017, the department said in a stat...

Dutch cow farmers face tough climate choices

Jan 04, 2022 (AFP)

Livestock farming is one of the main emitters of greenhouse gases in the Netherlands, where climate change threatens to swallow up the low-lying fields. "It's m...

Is urban food farming a priority?

Jan 01, 2022 (XNA)

At the Central Economic Work Conference in early December, President Xi Jinping urged local governments to achieve food self-sufficiency to ensure grain securit...

Foreign businesses worry as China food import law kicks in

Dec 31, 2021 (AFP)

Chinese consumers bought $108 billion worth of imported produce in 2020, with that number set to grow for 2021 as imports jumped nearly 30 percent year on year ...

Bird flu kills 100,000 hens at Czech farm

Dec 28, 2021 (AFP)

The farm in Libotenice, about 45 kilometres (28 miles) north of Prague, had a total of 188,000 hens before Christmas. "The culling of hens from halls affected b...

Sticky situation: Canada taps maple syrup reserves to meet soaring demand

Dec 18, 2021 (AFP)

Experts are warning the shortages could be further compounded by climate change, which is already being blamed for last spring's shorter and warmer sugaring sea...

Taiwan votes against reimposing US pork ban

Dec 18, 2021 (AFP)

President Tsai Ing-wen's ruling party had campaigned against reinstating a block on all imports of pork containing ractopamine, an additive used by American far...

Seeds of crisis: Climate change, price hikes hit Dijon mustard

Dec 16, 2021 (AFP)

The industry's woes are a prime example of the difficulties faced by the food industry as a whole. Production of mustard grains in 2021-2022 is estimated to hav...