No tears: Onion economics
India's version of the Big Mac index
India's version of the Big Mac index
A fall in rice yields has left China more reliant on imports
Cooperation between farmers is mutually beneficial
Foreign agri-tech firms need to aim small and be patient if they are to win over China’s farmers
Improving the lives of China’s farmers is a government priority, but breathing life into a creaking agricultural sector is not easy
Beijing may quadruple spending in biotechnology by 2010 to improve food security, according to Jikun H
A drought in southwestern China is threatening the water supplies of one million people along the Yang
Cautious opportunity for foreign fertilizer
Developing ambitious reform programs is easy. The challenge is paying for them
It was the end of the harvest season in Hubei province, and not a very good harvest at that, due to the dry weather. There were tinges of brown visible in the fields already, the ponds and streams were low to disappearing to gone, although I wondered if it is overuse of water upstream that is also a part of the problem.
China confirmed Monday the outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in northwest China's Ningxia region and
Cheap US cotton, subsidized to the tune of US$3 billion a year, will cost China US$208 million in inco
The illegal sale of genetically modified rice seed has spread from Hubei Province to Guandong Province
Chinese authorities are reported to have slaughtered at least 2,000 cows at dairy farms in Yanqing dis
As Greenpeace called a global recall of genetically modified rice, the ministry of agriculture said it
Despite China's increasing grain output, income growth among mainland farmers will slow to 5% this yea
Greenpeace says "rogue" scientists in the Hubei province are illegally growing genetically engineered
Citing Project Director Zhang Jiyao, state media said a long debated Yangtze River water diversion sch
Citing a report from the State Flood-Control and Drought Relief Headquarters in Beijing, state media s
As China's sugar demand is expected to exceed supply by 1m tons due to production shortfalls blamed on
Beijing aims to top last year's record grain production by redoubling efforts to protect farmland and
China has enough grain to feed its 1.3bn people for now, but the future looks questionable, according
In an effort to mitigate grain shortages and to shrink the income gap between rural and urban citizens
Land allocated to growing cotton is expected to decline 10% this year to 0.67m hectares, state media r
Beijing has committed to giving Taiwan agricultural producers greater access to the mainland market, i
China may approve genetically modified organism rice within two years, opening the door for the first
Reuters reported that police today detained Chairman Zheng Junhuai, Chief Financial Officer Zhang Xian
Taiwan's Council of Agriculture said it would launch a promotion campaign in Guangdong province, Japan
China's wheat crop is projected to cover 21.20 million hectares this year, an increase of one million
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