Globally, soil erosion is threatening to reduce the availability of soil suitable for agriculture in the upcoming decades. In India, the rate of soil erosion is particularly alarming. As of 2017, the country saw an average soil erosion rate of 16.35 tonnes per hectare per year, a rate significantly higher than the 2020 global average […]
Plenty's vertical farm uses a fraction of the land and water required by horizontal farming.
Sophie, 58, looked stylish in a pair of sage green trousers and a cream blazer as she arrived at Berkshire College of Agriculture near Maidenhead this morning.
In areas of Colombia once controlled by guerillas, conflicts over land continue and deforestation has risen considerably. But it's in these same areas that researchers have found that farmers implementing sustainable land use systems, like agroforestry driven by cocoa (one of the key ingredients of chocolate), has contributed to reducing conflicts.
With government support and technological breakthroughs, the agriculture sector is likely to thrive. Given the expanding market, quality agriculture stocks, ICL Group (ICL), Dole (DOLE), and MariMed (MRMD) might be
Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson said he's yet to hear of any issues
Limited accuracy and transparency of national greenhouse gas emission inventories are curbing climate action, especially in the agriculture and land use sector.
At its monthly board meeting, the Kentucky Agricultural Development Board approved $4,689,347 for agricultural diversification and
With traces of winter’s unusually heavy snow still lingering but a warm sun finally shining, farmers were out dawn to dusk in early May on their tractors, planting corn and soybeans across southwestern Minnesota fields many have owned for generations.
An Aberdeenshire MSP has slammed UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman for her ‘total disregard for Scotland’s farmers’ after she said the UK should train its own workforce of fruit pickers rather than import foreign labour.
In Florida, agricultural workers have been fearful and farmers are worried since Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law a restrictive immigration bill.
By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press LAKE BENTON, Minn. (AP) — With traces of winter’s unusually heavy snow still lingering but a warm sun finally shining, farmers were out dawn to dusk in early May on their tractors, planting corn and soybeans across southwestern Minnesota fields many have owned for generations. The threat of losing these