An interdisciplinary team of scientists from Nanyang Technological University Singapore has identified, for the first time, a key mechanism by which a dangerous plant disease can infect crops.The Xant...
Ghana’s agricultural produce can attract premium prices, derive huge foreign earnings and help the country to reduce agriculture emissions, if the use of biological control (Bio-control) of pest and d...
Africa contributes about one-third of the global banana production. The Great Lakes region of Africa (GLA), including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, and the eastern region of the Democratic...
Due to the impact of multiple factors, the price of chlorothalonil has continued to decline since the second half of 2019. At present, the price has dropped to a historic low in recent years. Chinese ...
Ecuador's message to the global banana community is clear: Fusarium is not just a pest; it is a lethal pandemic for bananas that currently has no solution and that threatens one of the most important ...
This year, driven by raw material costs and the optimization of industry supply and demand, the price of glyphosate continued to rise from RMB 28,500 per ton at the start of the year to RMB 53,000 per...
When agricultural weeds evolve resistance to herbicides, they do it in one of two ways. In target-site resistance, a tiny mutation in the plant’s genetic code means the chemical no longer fits in the ...
African scientists are using gene editing to improve major staple crops for increased productivity, enhanced nutrition and climate resilience.Among them are John Odipo, a scientist at Uganda’s Nationa...
Pheromones that interfere with insect mating patterns, crops that are grown together with others and fields edged with wildflowers are just some of the techniques being developed by European scientist...
Every year, the spores of the wheat blast fungus lie in wait on farms in South America, Bangladesh, and beyond. In most years, the pathogen has only a small impact on the countries’ wheat crops. But t...
The dining time of different insects impacts a plant’s defenses and nutritional quality—a complexity uncovered in new research with implications for pest management strategies.A piercing-sucking, viru...
A section of agriculture lobbyists want the national parliament to assess the impact of pesticides banned in the EU on Kenya’s agricultural production before extending the same in Kenya.Fresh produce...
