Water scarcity has become a critical constraint on global agricultural production. Particularly in tropical and subtropical regions, major crops such ...

Urbana-Champaign corn breeders know profitability is about more than yield. By tweaking kernel composition, they can tailor ...

In 2025, this long-established trend again shaped harvest results. Many farmers in the highlands, particularly in counties ...

THE fields of Zimbabwe and its neighbours in the Southern African Development Community tell a story of remarkable resilience these days. Just a couple of years ago, the brutal El Niño drought slashed ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Global Perspectives is a CNN editorial and live event series exploring the dynamic economies at the frontlines of global transformation. The first Global Perspectives live event, taking ...

HARARE, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe has brought back a ban on maize imports to boost local farmers, and has grown enough of its own this year to supply its millers after a bumper harvest, a senior ...

ABSTRACT: Intra-row spacing is a key factor affecting maize production and productivity, since it affects plant growth, resource utilization, and yield. The study was conducted during the 2023 and ...

As one of the world's most important crops, maize supplied both food and feed for humans and livestock. The demand for sustainable production of maize seeds with high yield and nutritional quality is ...

At the heart of Microsoft’s AI application development strategy is Semantic Kernel, an open source set of tools for managing and orchestrating AI prompts. Since its launch as a way to simplify ...

Water engineers in ancient South America turned seasonally flooded Amazonian savannas into hotbeds of year-round maize farming. Previous excavations dated Casarabe society, which covered an area of ...

Researchers have tested ancient DNA from corn found at archaeological sites in Arkansas, shedding new light on the dispersal of one of the world's most important food crops. Researchers have tested ...