"Rice is the most important staple food for more than half of the world’s population," said DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman. Indeed, rice has been the most commonly used food grain for most people in the world since ancient times and between 1961 and 2002, worldwide per capita consumption of rice increased by 40 per cent.
BASF Plant Science and KWS SAAT AG have announced that they are to collaborate to develop high-yielding sugar beet. The objectives for the long-term plant biotechnology project are to develop sugar beet varieties for the global market with higher sugar and energy yields as well as greater drought tolerance. The partners aim to bring the new varieties with 15 per cent higher yields to the market from 2020 onwards.
WHEN THE WORLD gets warmer with climate change, the dryland tracts will become even drier making it more difficult for the farmers to grow crops in this region.
p>WHEN THE WORLD gets warmer with climate change, the dryland tracts will become even drier making it more difficult for the farmers to grow crops in this region.
International agency promotes plant breeding technique to help beat world hunger
THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC Energy Agency (IAEA) has called for increased investment in a plant breeding technique that could bolster efforts aimed at pulling millions of people out of the hunger trap.
Guidance on ways to ameliorate poor, infertile soil, with reference to chemical and organic cultivation
THERE IS NO soil in the world that is not able to produce some form of healthy food crop if it is properly understood and cared for.
p>Guidance on ways to ameliorate poor, infertile soil, with reference to chemical and organic cultivationTHERE IS NO soil in the world that is not able to produce some form of healthy food crop if it is properly understood and cared for.
