ESSEX, Mo. -- At Missouri Delta Farms, airplanes sow rice seed from the sky and a private attorney helps grow the farm's revenues by reaping as much federal aid as possible. In both respects, the farm ...

It started like a fairytale. Back in 1685, a purse of magical seeds was exchanged in the port of Charleston, S.C., between a shipwrecked pirate of unknown origins and a local doctor from a mysterious ...

THE Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF) expanded access to high-yielding and climate-resilient rice varieties through a large-scale seed distribution program covering two cropping seasons. In ...

M J Prabu, a journalist-turned-farmer, returns to his Tamil Nadu village to save native rice seeds, build community seed ...

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) on Monday said it will start providing hybrid rice seeds and inorganic fertilizers to eligible farmers under its National Rice Program. The program is intended to ...

With the farming population decreasing and growing older, the global food system now faces great uncertainty especially when the covid-19 pandemic exacerbates labour shortages. Its potential havoc can ...