Mushroom production is inherently the practice of expanding mycelium. But since wanted and unwanted fungi flourish under the ...

Farmers have long fought a quiet war against the fungi that rot crops in fields and storage sheds. Each year, these diseases destroy harvests of lettuce, beans, oilseed rape, wheat, and many other ...

Regulatory pressure in the US and the EU has widely driven biopesticide growth, pushing these compounds from niche tools in ...

The National Turmeric Board on Tuesday conducted a farmer awareness and quality improvement training programme at Kowtla (B) in Nirmal district to promote the adoption of Integrated Pest Management ...

A new fungus, Neopestalotiopsis rosae, detected for the first time in Costa Rica could slash strawberry yields by up to 40%.

Sigma Foods has teamed up with precision fermentation startup Onego Bio to explore innovations with its animal-free egg white protein.

Onego Bio, a food ingredient company producing non-animal egg protein, and Sigma Foods (“SIGMA”), a leading multinational food company, have entered into a collaboration agreement to evaluate the ...

The Sugar Industry Research and Development Institute (SIRDI) has received an in‑kind donation valued at $10,000.00 from the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), one of its ...

The sugarcane farmers of the north have put last year’s disastrous harvest of 870,000 tonnes of cane in their rearview mirror; and they are hoping for a cane harvest of over 1 million tonnes of cane ...

The Green Revolution of the 1950s and 1960s dramatically increased yields and secured the global food supply for a rapidly ...

A research team has found that as almond cultivation continues to expand across the Mediterranean Basin, growers are increasingly challenged by ...

U.S. industrial output charged ahead in January, according to data published by the Federal Reserve Wednesday morning. Production rose by 0.7% last month, after rising by 0.2% in December—a third ...