IN the face of a growing threat to banana farming across East Africa, a coalition of research institutions, agricultural authorities and farming organisations in Tanzania is working tirelessly to ...

Lucas was working at a friend’s guesthouse in Mwanza. Though titled “manager”, his duties included scrubbing sheets, serving ...

Looking ahead to 2025/2026, the Ministry plans to continue imple­menting horticultural strategies to achieve a production target of nine million tonnes. The Ministry also aims to increase avocado ...

Director of TARI from Maruku Centre in Kagera, Dr Mpoki Shemwela said the varieties offer better resistance to diseases and suit different agro-climatic conditions “Our work ensures that these seeds ...

Earth8 Green partnership | Plant roots and fungi join forces for sustainable future crops Scientists at Salk Institute research how plant roots communicate with fungi to improve nutrient uptake.

A live field vegetable crop establishment and band-spraying demonstration will take place at the Teagasc Crops Research Centre in Oak Park on June 25 ...

THE trip to the selected mangrove planting sites located near the distant hills surrounding Infanta, Quezon, from the town proper took about one to two hours, one way. It involved a short trek weaving ...

Bland tasting produce. While most vegetables contain 80 to 90 percent water, overwatering adds too much moisture and dilutes the flavor of the harvest. Soft, limp root crops.

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The scientists analyzed six crops — maize, soybeans, rice, wheat, cassava and sorghum — in more than 12,000 regions across 54 countries. Together, these crops provide more than two-thirds of ...