Robusta coffee can suffer severe losses from coffee leaf rust and other leaf and fruit diseases unless protected with copper fungicide. (Image source: Dr Terry Mabbett)
Copper fungicides are still the most widely used protectant fungicides for tree crop disease control in the tropics, having undergone continuous development in formulation technology and spray application technique over the last 100 plus years
Maize harvest is expected to be the lowest in nine years. (Image source: Wikimedia)
In a new forecast, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation reveals that world cereal production will be reduced by 2.6 per cent by the end of 2012 following last years record crop
Indonesias white sugar production could rise as much as 14 per cent in 2012. (Image source: Wikimedia)
Indonesias white sugar production could rise as much as 14 per cent in 2012 to 2.4 million tonnes, helped by good weather, but will miss a government target because of a lack of land to plant cane
Dairy, poultry and pork helped push the Index up slightly. (Image source: Tambako The Jaguar/Flickr))
Following two months of stability, the FAO Food Price Index rose slightly in September 2012, up 1.4 per cent, or 3 points, from its level in August
DNA techniques are being used in a research which aims to develop a new variety of rice with greater health benefits. (Image source: Wikimedia)
DNA techniques are being used to analyse genes in rice in pioneering research which aims to develop a new variety of the grain with greater health benefits
