Several experts underscored the ill effects of using chemicals excessively in agriculture and stressed on ecologically sound alternatives while backing a recent government draft order to prohibit a bu...
Microplastics (MPs), i.e., tiny plastic particles less than 5 millimeters in length, can now be found throughout the ocean and other aquatic ecosystems, and even in our seafood and salt. As MPs have b...
Many uncertainties remain around the scale of the impact of the coronavirus crisis and the economic recovery. Nonetheless the food supply chain has proven resilient throughout the crisis. With lockdow...
Three dozen United Nations human rights experts recently called on wealthy countries to end the “deplorable” practice of exporting banned toxic chemicals and pesticides to poorer nations that lack “th...
The government is planning or restrict use of glyphosate , a popular herbicide used to control weeds in tea plantations – a proposal that has upset industry.The agriculture ministry, in a draft notifi...
Agriculture remains a central pillar of the Indian economy. The sector serves the food consumption needs of the whole country, while also placing among the top exporters of agricultural produce in the...
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, ra...
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 ...
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 locu...
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 eg...
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 na...
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 p...
