After years of water shortages and shrinking harvests, rice farmers in Mpanda, Burundi, are hoping a new $323.75 million regional agricultural project will breathe new […]
Category: Agriculture
Xi Focus: Xi stresses prioritizing ecological conservation, pursuing green development
Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visits the Huangqihai […]
Xinjiang’s cotton fields nurturing new generation of tech-savvy farmers
Ai Haipeng (2nd R), manager of an agriculture pilot program, conducts a training on spreading pesticides with an intelligent drone on a cotton field in […]
Asia-Pacific Community: Sowing hope in tropical paddies — Chinese hybrid rice tech delivers bountiful harvests in Philippines
At a hybrid rice experimental field in Nueva Ecija, the Philippines, ripe rice plants spread like a golden carpet, their panicles heavy with tightly packed […]
Ethiopia, China explore enhanced cooperation in agricultural mechanization
The renewed partnership is expected to support the development and adoption of appropriate agricultural mechanization technologies, improve the efficiency of teff production, reduce labor requirements, […]
Advancing regenerative agriculture for food systems transformation
Farmers and development agents benefit most from proven field-level practices, which can be replicated and scaled up more effectively A National Conference on Advancing Regenerative […]
SADC, FAO reinforce collaboration for resilient agrifood systems
Annual meeting in Harare focuses on climate resilience, one health and investments opportunities for Southern Africa The Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the Food […]