From Nigeria to Brazil 'halo'
crops reap pandemic profits
As the pandemic rages, people around the world have sought to guard against illness by turning to so-called halo foods
From Nigeria to Brazil 'halo'
Plague of mice overruns Australia
The stench hits you first, pungent, musty and rotting. Then you hear them: a sound like ocean waves, or pouring rain hitting concrete
India's farmers eye
record wheat crop
Amid COVID chaos and protests, they are on track to gather a record 109 million tonnes of wheat this year
Why diversity is
an advantage in
a vegetable plot
Forget whatever you’ve heard about which plants 'love' which other plants. This isn’t Match.com for vegetables: There’s a science to it
Deported from Europe, Afghan
man pioneers mushroom farming
Rasool Rezaie learned how to grow mushrooms during a stay in Russia, and set up his farm two years ago
Interest brewing
in coffee farming
Bangladesh plans large-scale commercial production of coffee beans
Egypt's farmers tap
technology to save
water, boost crops
The system uses a sensor buried in the soil to measure moisture levels and a transmitter to send the data to the user, who accesses it through a mobile app
It’s time to shop
for seeds
The 2021 garden season officially begins this month, with the arrival of seed catalogues. Here’s what to expect after last year’s chaotic spring
Drip irrigation
emerges to solve
rice paddy problem
An Israeli company develops a system to replace the flooded paddies that have supplied the world with rice for generations but cause damage to the environment
Pakistan looks to
new tech to curb
crop burning
Air pollution in Punjab shoots up every October and November as farmers burn rice stalks left behind after harvesting to clear their fields
