Yamunanagar: Damla village of Yamunanagar district in Haryana—now emerging as a centre for rural innovation—on Wednesday ...

When Zimbabwe’s government seized his family farm in 2001, Graham Rae looked for a way to start over. He cashed in an overseas nest egg, took out some big loans and moved north across the Zambezi ...

Barely three months after provisionally agreeing on a deal to provide Kenyan commercial farmers with land to grow maize, President Hakainde Hichilema is looking to attract Rwandan farmers to invest in ...

Digital tools are starting to transforming agriculture. Much of this is centered on gathering data, and analyzing it, in order to make the necessary agronomic insights for precision farming. The idea ...

When Mwaka Sangwa, 63, first arrived in Meheba refugee settlement in North-Western Zambia in 1993, she never imagined that she would end up spending more than half of her life there. Despite losing ...

In this opinion piece, Dilip Bhandari of Heifer International argues that scaling up an initiative providing educational ...

Joseph Goeb receives funding from USAID. Two commonly reported pests are bollworms and nematodes. These can dramatically reduce the amount of tomatoes that meet quality standards. To address this, ...

LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia's current 2015/2016 maize crop is expected to be a third lower than the previous year due to severe drought in many parts of the country, a farmers' group said on Monday.

LUSAKA (Reuters) - Commercial maize production in Zambia will fall by about 80 percent in the 2011/2012 season compared with the previous crop season after farmers turn to more lucrative cash crops, ...

LUSAKA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Repeated failed crops caused by worsening drought have forced Christine Mwenda, a small-scale farmer in Zambia's central Mumbwa region, to do what was previously ...