RUSHINGA, Zimbabwe (AP) — While others in her Zimbabwean village agonize over a maize crop seemingly headed for failure, Jestina Nyamukunguvengu picks up a hoe and slices through the soil of her ...

Venkatesan Sundaresan, a Distinguished Professor of plant biology and plant sciences at the University of California, Davis, ...

Millet is one of the oldest food crops consumed by Kenyans in different parts of the country. With time, many farmers abandoned growing millet and opted for the tastier and more promising maize. With ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has declared 2023 as the International Year of Millets, but these crops are unfamiliar to many Iowa farmers. Expect that to change soon say ...

A grain that millions of people in Asia and India eat every day is almost unheard-of in Iowa, but a researcher at Iowa State University says it has the potential to make Midwestern agriculture more ...

GENESEE, Idaho — Eric Odberg walked through his millet field on an autumn day. The crop glowed a golden bronze in the late afternoon sun. Odberg had planted the millet in June and would harvest it in ...

Climate change caused drought and flooding is damaging Nigeria’s staple foods, maize, cassava, millet and yam, smallholder ...

The study found that climate change is a serious threat to food crop production. Drought was the most severe risk, particularly affecting maize and cassava. Flooding was the second major threat. It ...