In recent years, China's grape planting area and production output have continued to grow. Up to end of 2016, China's total grape planting area reached 809,600 hectares which is only next to Spain, ranking second in the world while production output reached 13.745 million tons, r...

A 7,000-year-old crop variety discovered in China has been turned into commercial crop that can be planted in desert, which has the potential to help solve food crisis in regions and countries with a dry climate. Dry rice, also known as upland rice, has attracted attention of som...

The global upsurge of locusts is on the brink of becoming a plague, aided by unusually favourable weather for three years and the international community’s failure to curb their growth. Swarms of locusts took Delhi and the National Capital Region by suprise on June 27, 2020, the ...

The desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) is a species of locust, a periodically swarming, short-horned grasshopper in the family Acrididae. The locusts with a lifespan of 3-5 months, prefer to lay eggs in damp soil. They breed at a greater scale, laying as many as 1,000 eggs per...

Farmers are growing increasingly nervous about the long-term reliability of chemical supplies and want Canberra to adopt an industry strategy encouraging minimum production capacity, similar to the national fuel reserve policy.Concerns have hit a new peak with big crop chemical p...

On the eve of the United Nations’ Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises day, the importance of SMEs has never been more critical to the economic and social fabric of African nations.The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought unprecedented damage upon the economies of nations across th...

Portugal a member state of the European Union (EU) has recorded the greatest reduction in sales and use of agrochemicals, between 2011 and 2018, registering a drop of 43%. This data was released by Eurostat, the EU's statistical service, which published a EU fact sheet on the con...

India on Tuesday deployed a helicopter and a dozen drones spraying insecticide to stop desert locusts that have spread to nine heartland states of the world’s second-biggest producer of rice and wheat.The move came after swarms invaded Gurugram, a satellite city of the capital Ne...

As the largest cotton producing country in the world, China's total cotton output in 2019 was 5.89 million tons, accounting for 22.5% of the global total, with Xinjiang's total cotton production amounting to 5.02 million tons, accounting for 84.9% of the national total.However, s...

Chinese experts offered advice to neighboring India as it faces its worst locust swarm in 27 years, amid the novel coronavirus epidemic. The Indian government should conduct a large-scale spraying of pesticides and track locust movements through weather (wind pattern) monitoring,...