How can we guarantee the human population will be able to feed itself as it swells from 7 billion in 2012 to 9 billion by 2044? Growth of the human population and disparate patterns of resource ...

A study examines how ants optimize plant cultivation. The ant Philidris nagasau is known to cultivate epiphytic plants of the genus Squamellaria, but the evolutionary tradeoffs in this relationship ...

In this article, we will discuss the most cultivated crops in the world and discuss AI startups that are trying to increase the agriculture sector’s efficiency. If you want to skip our analysis of big ...

If you haven’t taken the leap and you’re unsure about whether or not to sow a cover crop, know that it’s worth it. Specifically, when it comes to your bottom line, cover crops save money. They may not ...

The discovery of figs in an 11,400-year-old house near the ancient city of Jericho may be evidence that cultivated crops came centuries before the first farmers planted cereal grains. Archeologists in ...

Sugarcane cultivation, once a key cash crop in the Rangpur region, has shrunk by more than 90 percent over the past five years following the closure of local sugar mills.

Thoothukudi Collector K. Elambahavath on Thursday expressed concerns at the farmers grievance redress meeting that the area under crop cultivation area in the district was steadily declining. He ...

Studying the domestication of any crop that people once ate helps scientists reveal how modern crops have evolved. Abigail Eisenstadt Although pumpkins and other gourds have become staples at ...