DUBAI (Reuters) – United Arab Emirates agriculture technology start-up Pure Harvest Smart Farms has raised $20.6 million in fresh funding and secured commitments for a further $100 million, it said on Monday. Wafra International, an investment firm owned by th... More »
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s agriculture ministry said on Monday it plans to issue biosafety certificates to a domestically grown, genetically modified (GM) soybean crop and two corn crops, in a move toward commercializing GM grain production in the world’s top... More »
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) – Argentina’s farmers have some questions for President-elect Alberto Fernandez, after the center-left Peronist won a decisive election on Sunday, ousting business-friendly leader Mauricio Macri. Across the country’s fertile P... More »
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese state media said on Sunday the United States has shipped several million tonnes of soybeans to China since the two countries’ leaders met in June, although U.S. government data shows that the volume was much less. The U.S.-China tra... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Ocado is plowing 17 million pounds ($22 million) into the emerging “vertical farming” industry, further diversifying the online grocer and technology group’s business. Vertical farming involves producing food indoors, with crops gr... More »
WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The United States and Mexico struck a deal on Friday to avert a tariff war, with Mexico agreeing to rapidly expand a controversial asylum program and deploy security forces to stem the flow of illegal Central American migrant... More »
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa is likely to harvest 16 percent less maize in 2019 compared with the previous season after drought delayed plantings, a Reuters poll showed on Monday. The government’s Crop Estimates Committee (CEC), which will provide its... More »
FILE PHOTO: Gil Ronen, Co-founder and CEO of NRGene, an Israeli genomic big data company, gestures during his interview with Reuters at a field in Givat Brenner, Israel January 8, 2017. Picture taken January 8, 2017. REUTERS/Baz Ratner TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Isr... More »
Scientists have answered one of nature’s most pungent questions: what gives the world’s smelliest fruit its distinctive aroma. More »
The recipe for a record-breaking guacamole? 25,000 avocados and 1,000 people to mash them. More »
FILE PHOTO: Ford cars are seen on sale at a dealership of Genser company in Moscow, Russia, February 14, 2017. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo Mexico’s economy minister will travel to Detroit on Friday to meet with executives from automakers Ford Motor Co (F... More »
Workers process lettuce for shipment at the Kernel plant in Los Alcazares, Murcia, southeast Spain February 13, 2017. REUTERS/Francisco Bonilla A shortage of iceberg lettuce is likely to continue into March, Spanish farmers say, because freak weather condition... More »
Uzbekistan’s government plans to provide almost two million households with chickens and lemon trees so they can feed themselves and sell their produce, according to a draft document published for public discussion. More »
A helicopter is used to dry cherries at New Zealand Cherry CorpÕs orchard in Cromwell, in the South Island of New Zealand, January 18, 2016. New Zealand Cherry Corp/Handout via REUTERS New Zealand cherry producers are flying helicopters low over their orchards... More »
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull reacts as he listens during Question Time in the House of Representatives in Parliament House, Canberra, Australia, November 28, 2016. AAP/Lukas Coch/via REUTERS Support for Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull ... More »
WASHINGTON Scientists have gotten to the root of the carrot, genetically speaking. Researchers said on Monday they have sequenced the genome of the carrot, an increasingly important root crop worldwide, identifying genes responsible for traits including the ve... More »
WASHINGTON Global warming is shrinking the terrain where bumblebees live in North America and Europe, with these vital pollinators departing the southernmost and hottest parts of their ranges while failing to move north into cooler climes, scientists say. Thei... More »
