Month: January 2018

Keywords: agriculture, Africa Up to $600 million has been set aside to aid in advancing agriculture among the world’s poorest farmers in Africa and Asia. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged $300 million over the next three years to support agricultural research that will help farmers better adapt to increasingly-challenging conditions brought about… Continue reading $600 million towards agricultural advancement in Africa

Keywords: seed, revolution Pioneering new technology is set to accelerate the global quest for crop improvement in a development which echoes the Green Revolution of the post war period. The speed-breeding platform developed by teams at the John Innes Centre, University of Queensland and University of Sydney, uses a glasshouse or an artificial environment with… Continue reading Speed breeding technique sows seeds of new green revolution

China has released new guidelines on the civilian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) industry, expecting the market value of the industry to rose 40 percent year on year on average to 60 billion yuan (about 9.1 billion U.S. dollars) by 2020. The market value would be tripled to 180 billion yuan by 2025, according to the… Continue reading China’s commercial drone market to top USD 9 bln by 2020

In order to implement the plan of “building 500 full-mechanized pilot counties” in the “Outline for the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development,” the Ministry of Agriculture has carried out the nationwide promotion of the mechanization of the entire crop production and started Demonstration County to create a job. Recently, based on… Continue reading The country’s 150 counties took the lead in realizing the mechanization of the main crop production