Machine learning detects importance of land stewardship in conservation policy

A machine-learning algorithm finds success in cooperative forest management policies that allow greater autonomy by smallholder farmers.

At the southern tip of the Himalayas, farmers in the Kangra region of India's Himachal Pradesh graze cattle among rolling hills and forests.

GM seed use has exploded in India: Socially motivated decisions

A cotton packer and her son rest between shifts compressing cotton into 200 kilogram bales at a cotton gin on the outskirts of Warangal, Telangana. Many former farmers are migrating to cities where they can make higher wages and find new opportunities, but the city also has higher costs of living and fewer ties to family and friends

Suicide rates among Indian farmers remain high, accounting for more than 12,500 deaths in the country in 2015, according to a government report. While many have blamed climate change for farmers' distress, the issue is likely much more complex.

Tracking pollen with quantum dots

Tracking pollen with quantum dots

A pollination biologist from Stellenbosch University in South Africa is using quantum dots to track the fate of individual pollen grains.

Ethiopia Gets Its Teff Back

Men and women harvest the Ethiopian staple grain teff in a roadside field between Axum and Adwa in Northern Ethiopia

The Ethiopian government is celebrating a major victory in a long-running dispute over who owns the patent for products made from teff - an ancient grain that forms the basis of Ethiopia's staple food, injera.

Surprise findings turn up the temperature on the study of vernalization

Surprise findings turn up the temperature on the study of vernalization

Researchers have uncovered new evidence about the agriculturally important process of vernalization in a development that could help farmers deal with financially damaging weather fluctuations.

Insects crave salt and search grasslands for the limiting nutrient

The OU team conducted 54 experiments in both grazed and ungrazed grasslands from Texas to Minnesota.

A University of Oklahoma team from the Geographical Ecology Group has published a new study in the journal Ecology on the nutritional preferences of diverse insect communities from Texas to Minnesota.

‘We will ensure that members get loan for wet season farming’

Newly elected President of National Association for Sorghum Producers and Processors Exporters and Marketers (NASPPEM), Alhaji Muhammad Babayo Maina

‘We will ensure that members get loan for wet season farming’

Recently, Foodfarmnews had a chat with the newly elected president of National Association for Sorghum Producers and Processors Exporters and Marketers (NASPPEM), Alhaji Muhammad Babayo Maina where he promised better working conditions for members of his association and much more. Excerpts...

COMMUNIQUÉ OF THE 42ND REGULAR MEETING OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL ON AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT (NCARD) HELD AT DR. OBI WALI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTRE, PORT HARCOURT, RIVERS STATE, NIGERIA FROM APRIL 24 – 28, 2017

Minister of Agriculture Chief Audu Ogbeh

The 42^nd Meeting of the National Council on Agriculture and Rural Development (NCARD) held at Dr. Obi Wali International Conference Centre, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria from April 24 – 28, 2017 under the Chairmanship of the Honourable Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Innocent Ogbeh, OFR, was declared open by His Excellency, the Governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, CON. The theme of the 42^nd National Council on Agriculture and Rural Development (NCARD) Meeting was “Agribusiness Investment for Economic Stabilization, Diversification and Growth”.The Council meeting commenced after the opening ceremony. 

FG pledges support for organic fertilizer production

  Farmers hail Eco-clean sapropel

The CEO, Marshal & Mitchel International Services Ltd, Mr. Sunny Onyeaso speaking on its potential nutrients to soil and yield to crops.

The Federal Government (FG) has reiterated its support for organic fertilizer based on its high demand and premium price importance to agriculture productivity in the world market just as the farmers under the umbrella of Federation Agricultural Commodity Associations (FACAN) have expressed happiness to the introduction of Eco-clean sapropel based organic fertilizer into the market.

Demand for Nigerian produce soars in Brazil, says FACAN representative

Brazilians at the recently concluded trade fair held at Novotel Hotel, Sao Paulo Brazil rushed at buying all the Nigerian agricultural processed products at the Federation of Agricultural Commodity Associations of Nigeria stand where products like shea butter, ginger, turmeric, castor and others were all bought because of their health uses.