The winter rice is growing well due to favourable weather and good irrigation, MARD said. (Image source: Mee Lin Woon/sxc.hu)
Vietnam is expected to produce 45mn tonnes of paddy rice in 2014, up almost 800,000 tonnes over 2013, according to Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD)
The development of the app stemmed from a collaboration between Seed Services Australia and UniSA’s School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences. (Image source: IRRI/Flickr)
Australian researchers have developed a new smartphone app to help farmers and exporters test the quality of seed
World inventories of wheat at the end of the 2014-15 season may total 195mn tonnes. (Image source: Nupur Das Gupta/Flickr)
Global wheat production will rise to a record 717mn tonnes in the 2014-15 season and 0.6 per cent higher than the previous year, UK-based International Grains Council (IGC) said
With the various funding schemes, AVA and NParks will work closely with the farms and nurseries respectively to help them build up their capabilities. (Image source: fauxto_digit/Flickr)
The Singaporean government has pledged US$50.4mn to aid farmers in transforming their farms and nurseries into high-tech, productive plots
The oilseed rape has the most duplicated genome among all flowering plants or angiosperms. (Image source: Evelyn Simak/Wikimedia Commons)
Scientists from France’s INRA, Genoscope and University of Evry, in collaboration with international teams, have sequenced the reference genome of the oilseed rape
