Have we entered the golden age of plant engineering? In the 1960s, Norman Borlaug, an American biologist, helped spark a period of transformative agricultural innovation known as the Green Revolution ...

A sweltering heat wave decimated Pritam Singh’s wheat crop in 2022. That year, temperatures reached a record-breaking 127 degrees Fahrenheit in Haryana, India, where Singh operates a 35-acre farm. The ...

The rise of advanced artificial intelligence (edge AI) could well mark the beginning of a new era for sustainable agriculture. A recent study proposes a roadmap for integrating this technology into ...

This article is authored by M Chuba Ao, national vice president, BJP and Nagender Parashar, director, Parashar Industries.

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Around 65% of Africa’s farmland is degraded due to decades of mono-cropping and overgrazing Nairobi Declaration aims to ...

Although China is the third largest country in the world in terms of land area (9.7 million square kilometers), it ranks 131st in terms of arable land per capita, at less than one tenth of a hectare ...

In the 1920s, Soviet officials seized upon the expansion of cotton farming in Asia: Cotton was declared “white gold,” and huge tracts of land were irrigated for cotton production. The problem was, ...

E-commerce giant PDD is poised to disrupt the trillion-dollar agriculture industry in China through data-driven insights and technology-enabled growth optimization. The company is leveraging big data ...

India’s farmers have long carried the nation’s food security on their shoulders. Today, they stand at a turning point. Falling groundwater levels, erratic monsoons, shrinking landholdings and a ...