Agriculture

No tears: Onion economics

India's version of the Big Mac index

Food fears: Asia's rice dilemma

A fall in rice yields has left China more reliant on imports

Strength in numbers: farmer associations

Cooperation between farmers is mutually beneficial

Big tech, small packages

Foreign agri-tech firms need to aim small and be patient if they are to win over China’s farmers

Seeds of hope

Improving the lives of China’s farmers is a government priority, but breathing life into a creaking agricultural sector is not easy

China to invest in agri-biotech

Beijing may quadruple spending in biotechnology by 2010 to improve food security, according to Jikun H

One million face water shortage

A drought in southwestern China is threatening the water supplies of one million people along the Yang

Sniff test

Cautious opportunity for foreign fertilizer

Pushing for change

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.

Foot-and-mouth outbreaks reported

China confirmed Monday the outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in northwest China's Ningxia region and

Cotton farmers under threat

Cheap US cotton, subsidized to the tune of US$3 billion a year, will cost China US$208 million in inco

GM rice illegally sold

The illegal sale of genetically modified rice seed has spread from Hubei Province to Guandong Province

Foot and mouth disease resurfaces: report

Chinese authorities are reported to have slaughtered at least 2,000 cows at dairy farms in Yanqing dis

China to investigate Greenpeace claims

As Greenpeace called a global recall of genetically modified rice, the ministry of agriculture said it

Farmer income growth to slow

Despite China's increasing grain output, income growth among mainland farmers will slow to 5% this yea

China growing GE rice illegally: Greenpeace

Greenpeace says "rogue" scientists in the Hubei province are illegally growing genetically engineered

Water project to displace 400,000

Citing Project Director Zhang Jiyao, state media said a long debated Yangtze River water diversion sch

Drought puts crops under threat

Citing a report from the State Flood-Control and Drought Relief Headquarters in Beijing, state media s

China faces sugar shortage

As China's sugar demand is expected to exceed supply by 1m tons due to production shortfalls blamed on

Beijing commits resources to raise grain output

Beijing aims to top last year's record grain production by redoubling efforts to protect farmland and

Grain production not enough to feed country: experts

China has enough grain to feed its 1.3bn people for now, but the future looks questionable, according

China to subsidize farmers with RMB5.5b

In an effort to mitigate grain shortages and to shrink the income gap between rural and urban citizens

Less cotton to be grown this year

Land allocated to growing cotton is expected to decline 10% this year to 0.67m hectares, state media r

Market access widens for Taiwan farm goods

Beijing has committed to giving Taiwan agricultural producers greater access to the mainland market, i

China may soon launch biotech rice

China may approve genetically modified organism rice within two years, opening the door for the first

Dairy leader under investigation

Reuters reported that police today detained Chairman Zheng Junhuai, Chief Financial Officer Zhang Xian

Taiwan in mainland fruit campaign

Taiwan's Council of Agriculture said it would launch a promotion campaign in Guangdong province, Japan

Wheat acreage up 5%

China's wheat crop is projected to cover 21.20 million hectares this year, an increase of one million

History repeating

"History repeats - first as tragedy, second as farce."