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China's 'new farmers' learn to livestream in rural revitalisation

Jul 09, 2025 (AFP)

To prevent her crops from rotting unsold in the fields, the 56-year-old is now back in school, attending a "hands-on livestreaming bootcamp" to learn to take he...

Rotten insects, viral videos and climate change: S.Korea battles 'lovebug' invasion

Jul 09, 2025 (AFP)

First identified in South Korea a decade ago, Seoul is now annually hit by a weeks-long infestation of the Plecia nearctica insect, a type of March fly nickname...

Beijing decries 'discriminatory' ban on Chinese purchases of US farmland

Jul 09, 2025 (AFP)

The Trump administration said this week that the United States would begin restricting purchases of farmland by Chinese nationals and other "foreign adversaries...

Drought-hit Morocco turns to desalination to save vegetable bounty

Jul 03, 2025 (AFP)

"We wouldn't be here without it," said Abir Lemseffer, who manages production for the tomato giant Azura. Severe drought driven by climate change has gripped th...

Sri Lanka court stops state land grab from Tamils

Jun 27, 2025 (AFP)

Sri Lanka's north bore the brunt of the conflict in the 37-year-long Tamil separatist war, which was brought to a bloody conclusion in May 2009. Many among the ...

Six million donkeys slaughtered for Chinese medicine: charity

Jun 26, 2025 (AFP)

It is driven by an increase in China's production of ejiao -- a product marketed as a health supplement that uses collagen from donkey skins -- which is a $6.8-...

Climate change could cut crop yields up to a quarter

Jun 18, 2025 (AFP)

As soon as 2050, this "moderate" scenario in which greenhouse gas emissions peak around 2040 and slowly taper off -- a trajectory aligned with current trends --...

Brazil says free of bird flu, will resume poultry exports

Jun 18, 2025 (AFP)

The world's top exporter of chicken meat was forced to halt exports to its main client China, the European Union and fellow Latin American countries over an out...

Heat tolerant crops achievable but require long timelines and major investment

Jun 17, 2025 (SPX)

Scientists can now fine-tune photosynthesis, adjust leaf chemistry and orientation, and enhance thermal tolerance in crops. However, translating these traits in...

Sri Lanka counts seven million crop-busting monkeys

Jun 12, 2025 (AFP)

Agrarian Research and Training Institute (ARTI) Chief Executive A. L. Sandika said that the refined data was in line with a previous survey "a few years ago", b...

Turkmenistan names high-yield wheat after its leaders

Jun 12, 2025 (AFP)

Among the fifteen former Soviet republics, Turkmenistan is the most threatened by severe food insecurity, affecting over 12 percent of its seven-million populat...

UK's sunniest spring yields unusually sweet strawberries

Jun 11, 2025 (AFP)

Long periods of sun and cool nights provided "perfect" conditions for the strawberry harvest, according to James Miller from WB Chambers Farms. The dry and plea...

China extends anti-dumping probe into EU pork imports

Jun 10, 2025 (AFP)

Beijing launched the probe last year amid Brussels' scrutiny of Chinese state subsidies for the electric-vehicle (EV) industry. The Chinese commerce ministry sa...

Climate strategies of agri-food giants insufficient: study

Jun 03, 2025 (AFP)

The annual report by the NewClimate Institute and Carbon Market Watch analysed the climate strategies of five of the world's top 10 food and agriculture corpora...

New digital tool provides satellite monitoring of crop health across US

Jun 03, 2025 (SPX)

The free digital tool integrates Google Earth Engine with high-resolution imagery from the European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite mission, cons...

New rare wild orchid seen in UK for first time in 100 years

Jun 03, 2025 (AFP)

Over-picking by Victorian collectors, gripped by the orchid craze of the time, was thought to have made the yellow cup-shaped and purple-petalled plant extinct ...

Report: 'Future-proofing' crops will require urgent, consistent effort

Jun 02, 2025 (SPX)

Higher temperatures, more frequent and longer droughts, catastrophic rainfall events and rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels all influence the growth, deve...

'Moving forward': the Gen-Z farmer growing Fukushima kiwis

Jun 01, 2025 (AFP)

Haraguchi was 11 years old when Japan's strongest earthquake on record struck in March 2011, unleashing a tsunami that left 18,500 people dead or missing. The w...

Mango deal sweetens ties between Bangladesh and China

May 28, 2025 (AFP)

Bangladesh, still reeling from the political fallout of a 2024 uprising that ended the autocratic rule of Sheikh Hasina -- who fled by helicopter to New Delhi -...

Ancient bread rises again as Turkey recreates 5,000-year-old loaf

May 27, 2025 (AFP)

Now, more than 5,000 years later, archaeologists have unearthed it, and helped a local bakery to recreate the recipe -- with customers lining up to buy it. Roun...