• Shandong will promote the full mechanization of agricultural production

• Zimbabwe introduces hybrid cotton seeds

• World Bank approves 150 mln USD loan for China’s farm produce distribution system

• New assembly of wheat progenitor offers clues to genome evolution

• Saudi Arabia may become major hub for Russian agriculture

• China mulls extending pilot plan to mortgage rural land rights

• U.S. to tighten standard for soybean shipped to China

• New assembly of wheat progenitor offers clues to genome evolution

• The country will reduce the acreage of 20 million mu of corn in 2017

• New sunflower variety keeps blooming until late November, firm claims