Farmers have asked the government to provide certified seeds, training and tools, especially during this long rains season.

ISLAMABAD: The country has missed the wheat production target as the estimated production of the commodity is 28.42 million ...

Traditionally reliant on sugarcane, Busoga sub-region now stands to benefit from diversifying into maize, which serves both ...

Ms Grace Mutai was a successful maize farmer in Bomet County until she stumbled on avocado farming, an enterprise she ventured into by accident. And the transformation has improved her fortunes.A ...

“According to Sadc and FAO [Food and Agricultural Organisation] reports, maize production is expected to remain 10%–15% below ...

Farmers across northern Nigeria are expanding their farmlands to cultivate more of the high-yielding TELA maize variety following a bumper harvest last season.The move signals growing confidence in ...

DURING a visit to Africa by its Director General, Manuel Otero, the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) pledged to intensify its ...

India plans to borrow from Brazil’s playbook to raise yields of soybean, maize and tomatoes. With demand for food and fuel ...

Henry Sila Nzioki has developed a weed-killing fungus to improve food security. “I’m a plant pathologist at the Kenya ...

Companies and experts have said with a significant portion of India's net cultivated area relying on monsoon rains for ...

Cotton acreages in Central India expected to decrease as farmers shift to maize due to low yields and high costs.

Most smallholder maize farmers are at risk of facing food shortage this year due to premature maize harvesting (PMH) driven ...