Current Headlines

  1. Insights On Soil Health Help Sustainable Farming In Vietnam's Central Highlands 8/5/2026

    The fertile basaltic soils of Vietnam’s Central Highlands have helped make the country the world’s largest producer of Robusta coffee.

  2. Drought-Hardy Ryegrass Raises New Challenge 8/5/2026

    A study by La Trobe University researchers has found annual ryegrass, the most damaging weed in Australian grain systems, can adjust its growth and reproduction to survive under drought stress, making it potentially harder to manage as climate conditions become more variable.

  3. IRRI Supports Can Tho's Transition From Pilot Fields To Large-Scale Low-Emission Rice Production Zones 8/4/2026

    Government agencies, researchers, agricultural cooperatives, farmers, and private-sector partners gathered to showcase major strides in scaling high-quality, low-emission rice production under Vietnam’s One Million Hectares of High-quality and Low-emission Rice (1Mha) Programme.

  4. ICAR's Genome Breakthrough Paves Way For Better Pigeonpea Varieties 8/4/2026

    In a major scientific breakthrough Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has developed India's first fully annotated telomere-to-telomere (T2T) reference genome of pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan L. Millsp.) variety 'Asha'.

  5. Soilless Farming System Design Can Determine Microbial Growth, Impact On Crops 8/4/2026

    Vegetable production from soilless farming — a method of growing plants in a nutrient-rich solution rather than traditional soil — is significant, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), with more than half of tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce grown using hydroponics.

  6. UGM Partners With WorldVeg To Strengthen Global Plant Disease Diagnostics 8/4/2026

    Emerging plant diseases are becoming an increasingly serious global challenge, threatening crop productivity and food security.

  7. Warwick Researchers Power AI-Driven Pest Monitoring For UK Vegetable Growers 8/4/2026

    Researchers at the University of Warwick are helping to develop an artificial intelligence-powered pest monitoring system that enables UK vegetable growers to detect damaging insect pests earlier.

  8. Securing The Future Through Smarter Resource Management 8/3/2026

    Healthy natural resources are the foundation of food security, resilient livelihoods and sustainable development. By prioritizing conservation and integrated landscape management, countries can strengthen agricultural productivity while safeguarding the ecosystems that support long-term prosperity.

  9. ICRISAT Secures Gene Editing Deployment License To Strengthen Small Farms, Farmer Profitability Across Asia, Africa 8/3/2026

    In a key milestone for food security and climate-resilient agriculture, the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) has secured long-term access to CRISPR-Cas9 in order to deploy gene editing, one of the world's most transformative new technologies, across smallholder Asian and African farms.

  10. Limagrain And Qi Biodesign Sign Worldwide Licensing Agreement For Genome Editing Technologies To Accelerate The Development Of Next-Generation Crop Varieties 7/31/2026

    Limagrain and leading genome editing player Beijing Qi Biodesign Biotechnology Co., Ltd. ("Qi Biodesign") today announced a global licensing agreement granting Limagrain access to a portfolio of genome editing technologies for field and vegetable crops.