The use of a strip-till cultivator has halved the number of maize establishment passes and more than doubled work rate at a ...

This study summarizes the current research status of the impacts of crop domestication and improvement on root ...

However, being on heavy land means achieving good seed-beds for maize and the following crop ... increased earthworm diversity, better soil structure and provides food and habitat for wildlife ...

Modern agriculture highly depends on the achievements of crop domestication and improvement. While these activities increase yields, they also reduce ...

Rising carbon dioxide boosts plant growth but reduces key nutrients, weakening global food quality and crop nutrition.

Over generations of living and working there, humans left heaps of discarded squash seeds, maize kernels ... They have tentatively dated the structure to the late fourth or early fifth century.

Genetic analyses and interviews with Indigenous farmers revealed that most manioc crops resemble each other across time and ...

In this opinion piece, Shikhadri Mahanta says there is a better way to protect wheat from post-harvest losses due to ...

Three weeks after the government ordered a reduction in maize seed prices ahead of the long rains, farmers across the country continue to face high costs with retail outlets still selling at the old ...