09/13/2022 SOURCE: www.agriculture.com
KYIV, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Ukrainian farms in almost all regions have started sowing winter wheat for the 2023 harvest, seeding 141,000 hectares, or 3.5% of the expected area, the agriculture ministry said on Tuesday.The ministry did not provide a forecast, although minister Mykola Solsky told Reuters last month that the area could fall to 3.8 million hectares from 4.6 million a year earlier due to the Russian invasion.The minister said that Ukraine's winter barley sowing area for the 2023 harvest could also fall by 20% from last year while the winter rapeseed area would remain unchanged.The mi
Ukrainian winter wheat sowing underway, 3.5% complete - agriculture ministry
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John LaRose Jr.
Topics: Agriculture Global, World Hunger, Ag Africa,
Better seeds and biotechnology can boost Africa's crop productivity, study finds - Alliance for Science
Though Africa has a quarter of the world’s arable land, its crop productivity falls well below the world average, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Much of that is due to poor quality seeds and constraints facing smallholder farmers, according to a new study that suggests crop biotechnology as a way to boost production and productivity […]
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Nancy Kavazanjian
Topics: Agriculture Global, Trade (Commodities), USDA,
The Export Sales Data Snafu
On August 25, the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service released its weekly Export Sales Report using a new reporting system. Based on some implausible values in this report, regular users of…
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09/10/2022 SOURCE: rcg.org
It can be easy to take the soil beneath our feet for granted. Yet its health has always been a key to our survival.
A Missing Ingredient for World Peace
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09/10/2022 SOURCE: geneticliteracyproject.org
This paper updates previous estimates for the global value of using genetically modified (GM) crop technology in agriculture at the farm level. It examined impacts on yields, important variable costs of production.
Study: $261 billion — That’s how much GMO crops have boosted farmers’ incomes
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09/08/2022 SOURCE: www.financialexpress.com
Target for winter crops output set at 164.8 MT
Govt sets 2022-23 grain production target at 328 mt, up 4% on year
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09/08/2022 SOURCE: nation.com.pk
ISLAMABAD - Exporters feared a drop in rice exports during the current fiscal year after the recent floods wiped out most parts of the cultivated areas.“The floods have washed away rice crop on thousands of acres. The disaster is so big and it will
Drop in rice exports feared as floods damage crop
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09/08/2022 SOURCE: www.newtimes.co.rw
Carbon farming in Africa has the potential to store up to 1.2 billion tonnes of carbon or 10 percent of the carbon reduction needed to avoid the catastrophic 1.5 degrees of global...
Farmers expected to earn, reduce carbon emissions in new project
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09/07/2022 SOURCE: geneticliteracyproject.org
What are the world’s most damaging farm products? You might be amazed by the answer: organic, pasture-fed beef and lamb. I realise this is a shocking claim.
The Guardian’s anti-GMO columnist George Monbiot reports organic, pasture fed beef and lamb are 'some of the world’s most damaging food products'
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09/06/2022 SOURCE: qz.com
Three of the world's top five cotton producing countries are impacted.
Pakistan flooding, drought in Texas, and the Xinjiang ban are pushing cotton into crisis
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