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Problem is set to worsen after a massive snowstorm in the United States and floods in Australia. World food prices have hit their highest level on record in January, the United Nations has said. It said on Thursday that its Food and Agriculture Organization Food Price Index rose for the seventh month in a row [...]
Mango trees are affected by a number of pests of which the hopper is a major and serious threat during the flowering season. If uncontrolled they can cause severe damage. Theses insect pest also damage the crop by secreting a sweet sticky substance called honey dew. Life cycle Shade and high humidity conditions favor its [...]
Plant growth that had been spurred by global warming has reversed, despite temperatures that continue to rise. Researchers say the change could affect food security and development of biofuels. The amount of carbon taken up by growing plants increased from 1982 through 1999 as temperatures rose and the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere [...]
The `Praja Patham’ programme failed to take off at Gangannagudem under the Denduluru mandal limits on Tuesday in view of the strong protest by palm oil farmers, demanding a fair deal for their produce. The growers, who gathered in good number from Gangannagudem, Sanigudem, Jogannapalem and Galayagudem villages, detained Eluru Revenue Divisional Officer (RDO) V.R. [...]
The moratorium on commercial cultivation of Bt brinjal in India, which has led to a controversy over genetically modified (GM) food crops in the country, has caught farmers’ attention across south-east Asian countries none where of which, except the Philippines, has so far gone in favour of such crops. Taking keen interest in the controversy [...]
More food needs to be produced with less water and land. The challenges of a growing population, changing diets, and the unquenchable thirst of agro-energy puts increasing pressure on the limited land, water and environmental resources at both the global and local scales. Poor countries need to frame important strategies for agricultural development through biotechnology [...]
American farmers expect to plant 88.8 million acres of corn — the second-largest acreage since 1946 — and a record 78.1 million acres of soybeans in response to high prices for the crops, the government said on Wednesday. While the survey results point to the prospect of bumper crops, the acreage figures were slightly below [...]