Agriculture

Officials are racing to track the contacts of the United Kingdom's first human case of a "distinct" form of swine flu.On Monday, the U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA) announced it had detected a single confirmed human case of influenza…

This file photo taken on January 26, 2022, shows the seal for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, DC. — AFPISLAMABAD: During the ongoing review of a $3 billion short-term loan agreement, the International Monetary…

The growing global population needs sufficient food. Its production causes overfertilization and increased nitrogen concentration in agriculture, which negatively affects the population, climate, and ecosystems. According to models of…

It is impossible to imagine modern agriculture without plastics. 12 million tonnes are used every year. But what about the consequences for the environment? An international team of authors led by Thilo Hofmann from the Division of…

Farmers usually plant so-called cover crops after harvesting their main crop in the Fall. This prevents erosion of the soil and nutrient leaching. The roots of these crops also stabilize the structure of the soil. It had been assumed up to…

The government has prohibited the export of non-basmati white rice.The Minister was speaking at an event to launch ITC’s postal stamp on millets in collaboration with India Post. Union Minister of State for Agriculture Kailash…

For instance, as tomato prices surged past ₹200 a kg last week, the steepest ever the national capital region has seen, Ishwar Gaykar, a grower from Pune, Maharashtra, made a fortune from his 12 acres of tomato crop. Gaykar’s…

<!-- -->14 of the infected animals were reported to have been euthanised. (Representational)Geneva: Poland is the first country to report "high numbers" of cats infected with bird flu across a large area, the WHO said Monday, adding…

Schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease that causes organ damage and death, affected more than 250 million people worldwide in 2021, according to the World Health Organization. One of the world's most burdensome neglected tropical diseases,…

The Agriculture Department said on Wednesday that it would establish a monitoring and data collection network to measure greenhouse gas emissions and determine how much carbon can be captured using certain farming practices.The network,…