A closer look at Zambia’s bumper harvest and the real drivers behind reduced milling activity ...

IT’S almost sunset but Musa Maile, a resident of Machenje village in Kongwa District, Dodoma Region is still in his 30-acre ...

India is about to receive its first 2G ethanol produced from bamboo at the state-run Numaligarh Refinery Ltd's bio-refinery ...

The maize stem provides structural support to other plant organs and stores carbohydrates and nitrogen (N) that can be remobilized to grain. Yet it remains unknown whether breeding programs have ...

We would have to work so hard, but receive little.” Indigenous communities around the world are losing the crops their ...

In Bihar, marigolds (genda phool) are more than just flowers—they're a lifeline for small farmers. As traditional crops face climate challenges, floriculture in Bihar offers quicker returns and ...

The coming weeks will see large acreages of land throughout the UK planted out in forage maize, writes Richard Halleron.

Nigeria’s quest for food security is being hindered by poor access to credit, outdated farming techniques, and weak ...

The use of a strip-till cultivator has halved the number of maize establishment passes and more than doubled work rate at a ...

A prominent agricultural contractor is predicting that the first forage maize crops of the year could be planted before the ...

Maize needs a pH of 5.8-7, and outside this range, many key nutrients will not be available to the plant, advises nutrition agronomist Guillaume Franklin of Origin Soil Nutrition. “If the basics ...

Spring planting is well ahead of recent years and spring barley continues to be planted across the country this week.