Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Crop losses in African countries due to insect pests are estimated at 49% of the expected total crop yield each year, according to ...

The creation of a National Mission on Tuber Crops (NMTC) has been proposed for mainstreaming tubers into India’s food basket and increasing productivity and farmer incomes from these often sidelined ...

Vegetatively propagated crops (VPCs) and horticultural tree crops (HTCs) play an important role in food security and income and represent significant agricultural opportunities in most countries of ...

A team has engineered potato to be more resilient to global warming showing 30% increases in tuber mass under heatwave conditions. This adaptation may provide greater food security for families ...

Traditionally, sweet potato cultivation in Karnataka was confined to coastal, hilly and forest regions, grown mainly for household consumption or local markets. But with climate variability increasing ...

Root and tuber crops currently provide over 40 per cent of Africa’s food supply, according to the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). Over the past two decades, production ...

The United States grew more than a million acres of potatoes in 2017, making the number one vegetable crop in the country a tuber. But potatoes are not the only tubers. Jerusalem artichoke, potato ...

Bolanle Aishat Akinwande works as a lecturer at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria. The research was done at International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, ...

Companies are exploring the potential of genetic engineering to boost the nutritional content, productivity and climatic adaptability of so-called orphan crops in the continent. Scientists are using ...

Esther is a 2015 Food Security Fellow with the New Voices, Aspen Institute Crop losses in African countries due to insect pests are estimated at 49% of the expected total crop yield each year, ...