FARM NEWS - AFRICA DAILY

Stress a key factor in causing bee colonies to fail

Oct 09, 2013 (SPX)

Scientists from Royal Holloway University have found that when bees are exposed to low levels of neonicotinoid pesticides - which do not directly kill bees - th...

Scientists unlock secret of cattle ticks' resistance to pesticide

Oct 09, 2013 (SPX)

have discovered how a tick which transmits devastating diseases to cattle has developed resistance to one of the main pesticides used to kill it. Approximately ...

Russia again cites tainted meat imports from Poland

Oct 07, 2013 (UPI)

Russia, in keeping with a recent pattern, has again raised questions about the quality of meat from Poland despite assurances it has not launched a trade war. R...

Hotpots and snake blood: Asia's libido-boosting foods

Oct 04, 2013 (AFP)

Holding aloft a half-metre long horse penis, chef Xiao Shan confidently declares it "the most delicious" of the ingredients in a Chinese hotpot of male genitali...

Farmers need help to plow through new food safety regulations

Oct 03, 2013 (SPX)

Agricultural extension educators should take a flexible approach in teaching farmers about the changing landscape of food safety regulations, according to Penn ...

Understanding soil nitrogen management using synchrotron technology

Oct 03, 2013 (SPX)

As food security becomes an increasingly important global issue, scientists are looking for the best way to maintain the organic matter in soils using different...

Toxic metal selenium and diesel fumes baffle bees

Oct 03, 2013 (AFP)

Diesel exhaust fumes alter the flowery smells that guide bees when they forage, potentially sending them off course and putting the food-growing industry at ris...

Protecting the weedy and wild kin of globally important crops

Oct 03, 2013 (SPX)

Over the past few decades, crop breeders have increasingly relied on the wild and weedy relatives of domesticated crops as new sources of disease resistance, dr...

First step to reduce plant need for nitrogen fertilizer uncovered

Oct 01, 2013 (SPX)

Nitrogen fertilizer costs U.S. farmers approximately $8 billion each year, and excess fertilizer can find its way into rivers and streams, damaging the delicate...

Sustainable livestock production is possible

Oct 01, 2013 (SPX)

Consumers are increasingly demanding higher standards for how their meat is sourced, with animal welfare and the impact on the environment factoring in many pur...

Japanese fast-food chain to farm in Fukushima

Oct 01, 2013 (AFP)

Major Japanese fast-food chain Yoshinoya said Tuesday it would grow rice and vegetables in Fukushima prefecture, home to the nuclear plant that was crippled by ...

Discovery offers bio-solution to severe canola crop losses

Sep 30, 2013 (SPX)

A genetic discovery by a University of Calgary-led international research team offers a solution to a long-standing "green seed problem" that causes millions of...

Modifying Rice Crops to Resist Herbicide Prompts Weedy Neighbors' Growth Spurt

Sep 27, 2013 (SPX)

Rice containing an overactive gene that makes it resistant to a common herbicide can pass that genetic trait to weedy rice, prompting powerful growth even witho...

Swedish team hope to create buzz in fight against bee deaths

Sep 27, 2013 (AFP)

Researchers in Sweden said Friday they had developed a new medicine to protect bees from diseases that kill entire populations of the insect in the US and Europ...

Livestock is major contributor to global warming: UN

Sep 26, 2013 (AFP)

Livestock farming makes up 14.5 percent of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, the UN food agency said Thursday, proposing solutions like breeding less-f...

Economic rewards of better land management

Sep 26, 2013 (SPX)

Adopting proven sustainable land management practices could raise world crop supplies by an estimated 2.3 billion tonnes, worth $1.4 trillion, experts say in a ...

Weather, yield compared for horticultural crops in Wisconsin and southern Ontario

Sep 25, 2013 (SPX)

Because Wisconsin and Ontario are similar in terms of agricultural practices, types of vegetable crops produced, climate, and latitude, researchers in Ontario l...

Yellow peril: Are banana farms contaminating Costa Rica's crocs?

Sep 25, 2013 (SPX)

Shoppers spend over Pounds 10 billion on bananas annually and now this demand is being linked to the contamination of Central America's crocodilians. New resear...

Climate change to shift Kenya's breadbaskets

Sep 25, 2013 (SPX)

Kenyan farmers and agriculture officials need to prepare for a possible geographic shift in maize production as climate change threatens to make some areas of t...

China takes 12.5% stake in Russian potash giant: company

Sep 24, 2013 (AFP)

A Chinese state investment vehicle has taken a 12.5-percent stake in Russia's leading potash producer Uralkali, the company said on Tuesday, in a new sign of Ch...