Use of this biotechnology will allow farmers to effectively grow their crops using fewer resources. (Image Source: Unsplash/Pixabay)
New research has successfully used biotechnology to enhance a plant’s tolerance to stress, which in turn improves how it uses water and nutrients from the soil
Thailand is the world’s number one producer of natural rubber. (Image Source: jefftollefson1968/Flickr)
The 12th Global Rubber Conference (GRC 2016) will take place at Deevana Plaza hotel in Krabi, Thailand from 11-13 October this year
FAO and China have agreed to broaden the scope of their cooperation. (Image Source: absent84/fotolia)
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Chinese government have announced plans to intensify their partnership in south-south cooperation activities, FAO announced last week
The programme will identify 600 rice varieties to accelerate crop breeding.(Image Source: iaea_imagebank/Flickr)
Scientists from UK-based The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC), in partnership with Agricultural Genetics Institute (AGI), hav begun bioinformatics training programme to rice breeders in Vietnam
The organisations will combine their resources to breed potato varieties suitable for South Asia markets. (Image Source: 16:9clue/Flickr)
The International Potato Center (CIP), global seed potato company HZPC and the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA) have come together in a new partnership to develop better potatoes for tropical and subtropical conditions
