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Africa’s indigenous foods may hold the key to a healthier, more sustainable future – if we choose to value them.
Climate change and global trade help pests move into cooler zones. These insects damage crops, risking food supplies.
Rice is a staple food for more than half of the global population. It is consumed on a daily basis by more people than either wheat or maize, also known as corn. So it is with some concern that ...
But that’s a lazy argument—conveniently ignoring the structural dysfunction that defines Pakistan’s wheat market and the ...
LAHORE: The Punjab Agricultural Research Board (PARB) on Thursday approved 23 new research projects related to various crops, ...
Wandile Sihlobo explains why there is room for a deeper conversation about how South Africa could import more wheat from ...
Wheat stocks in the world’s second-largest ... provided pauses to what was the onset of a harsh summer. Rice reserves also stood at a record 63.09 million tonnes as on April 1, exceeding the ...
This year, the wheat procurement period is off to a strong start with FCI purchases well ahead of where they were during the same period in 2024. State reserves of rice, including unmilled paddy ...
Power is consolidated in the hands of a few mega-corporations and the world relies on four main staple crops—wheat, rice, maize and soybean—to meet most food needs. In South Africa ...