The 12th Chengdu International Urban Modern Agriculture Expo was held from September 28 to 30 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. Covering 33,000 square meters, the expo attracted 816 companies from ...

Wheat that can help make its own fertilizer is no longer a speculative idea from plant biology textbooks, it is a working prototype that could reorder how the world grows one of its staple grains. By ...

In the last five years, Indigenous agriculture has received attention in academia as an alternative model, though on a smaller scale, to modern farming systems. Research has shown that some ...

“There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks,” said Robert F. Kennedy in 1964. “They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a ...

As global water resources become more strained, the insights gained from traditional agricultural systems could pave the way for the development of innovative, low-water-use agricultural practices to ...

XI'AN, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- For the first time, Li Fuping traded his usual National Day in the fields for a new adventure. During the early October holiday, the grain farmer drove his wife and two ...

Agriculture as thebackbone of our economy is a common refrain that continues to shape thelivelihoods of millions of small-scale farmers. For generations,farming, which is largely subsistence, has ...

The World Economic Forum says the world faces a new crisis, “One-third of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions come from food production.” With the world’s population expected to reach 10 billion ...

Agricultural technology is an ever-important branch of development across technologies. AgriTech is a significant part of various initiatives in Europe and around the globe. AgriTech engages solutions ...

Alley cropping is the agricultural practice of planting rows, or alleys, of trees in fields of crops. According to a new study by an international, multidisciplinary research team led by the ...

Midwest soil is eroding at an alarming rate according to new, first-of-its-kind research. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts found that the rate of soil erosion in the Midwestern US is 10 ...