Water4Crops–reuse of treated wastewater delivers higher crop yields
New Delhi, India (15 June 2016) ― The safe reuse of wastewater for agricultural purposes, which has resulted in higher crop yields Read more...
Success in increasing production of sorghum and millets by up to 150%
Hyderabad, India (13June 2016) —More than 180,000 households were reached with new technologies that increased the production of sorghum and millets by Read more...
Sweet sorghum complementing ethanol production in sugar mills
To help the government achieve the national ethanol blending targets of 20% by 2017, private sugar mills and the public sector research Read more...
Rehabilitating laboratories in Central African Republic
In order to rehabilitate laboratories that were completely damaged by the 2012-2014 civil war in the Central African Republic, seven participants from Read more...
Nigerian farmers beat high temperatures with dry-season groundnut varieties
Farmers in northern Nigeria are switching over to groundnut production in the hottest months of the year. From an initial six farmers Read more...
Pioneering digital agricultural applications to help farmers cope with climate change
Telugu version / Hindi version Hyderabad, India (09 June 2016) ― A new Sowing Application for farmers combined with a Personalized Village Read more...
New initiative started to popularize hybrid pigeonpea for self-sufficiency
Mr Shobhana K Pattanayak, Secretary, Agriculture, Department of Agriculture Cooperation & Farmers Welfare (DoAC & FW), Government of India, has called on all Read more...
Our crops and croplands feed livestock
Can Africa’s growing demand for red meat be met by better utilizing cropland resources and the available feed/forage technologies produced in the Read more...
Small farmers don’t give up on Pendo groundnut in Tanzania
Annual groundnut production in Tanzania doubled from 340,770 tons in 2008 to 810,000 tons in 2012, and smallholder farmers as part of Read more...
New initiative started to popularize hybrid pigeonpea for self-sufficiency
Hyderabad, India (04 June 2016) ― Mr Shobhana K Pattanayak, Secretary, Agriculture, Department of Agriculture Cooperation & Farmers Welfare (DoAC & FW), Government Read more...