Venkatesan Sundaresan, a distinguished professor of plant biology and plant sciences at UC Davis, has been awarded a Gates Foundation grant to develop self-cloning crops for Indian farmers. The ...

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Rapeseed and mustard planting in India are set to drop despite higher prices, as above-average temperatures during the sowing season prompt farmers to switch to crops less affected ...

Indian chilli prices rise due to strong domestic demand and reduced crop yields, despite significantly lower exports to China ...

India's summer crop acreage declines 2% due to lower paddy and maize sowing, despite an increase in pulses and bajra.

MUMBAI (Reuters) -India is set to see above-average temperatures in February after a warmer than normal January, the weather office said on Friday, posing a risk to key winter-sown crops such as wheat ...

WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- Reds lentils are the hot commodity. The Indian winter crop, by far the world's largest, suffered from a lot of rain right at, or just before, harvest. Yields were not greatly ...

MUMBAI, March 16 (Reuters) - Untimely rains and hailstorms could damage India's key winter-sown crops such as wheat, rapeseed and chickpeas just before harvesting begins for plants that have already ...

Poor, fragmented data continues to limit AI’s impact on farming in India, say experts ...

NEW DELHI, March 21 (Reuters) - Unseasonal rains and hailstorms have damaged ripening, winter-planted crops such as wheat in India's fertile northern, central and western plains, exposing thousands of ...

Global experience shows that AI delivers results not when it replaces human systems, but when it strengthens them ...