As the global population grows, we’ll have to find ways of feeding the planet without accelerating climate change.

Before those grim visions could come to pass, the green revolution transformed global agriculture, especially wheat and rice.

Rice, often hailed as the “grain of life,” has nourished civilisations for thousands of years. Across Asia, nearly 90% of the population depends on it as a staple food, sustaining over two billion ...

HANOI: Known as a major rice producer worldwide, Vietnam is making significant strides in reducing the environmental impact of this staple crop.

'Rice revolution' Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính has called for revitalising the rice production through digital technology, green development, the circular economy, the sharing economy, the knowledge ...

A recent spate of crop biotech breakthroughs presage a New Green Revolution that will boost crop production, shrink agriculture's environmental footprint, ...

The Green Revolution was so successful that dire predictions of worse famine to come—fueled by alarming population growth —no longer seemed likely.

NEW DELHI: The Green Revolution that brought self-sufficiency in food grains production to India has a troubling downside. High-yielding wheat and rice strains over the last 50 years have steadily ...

Did the Green Revolution, which brought high-tech agriculture to developing nations in the 1960s, prevent famine? Recent research takes a much more skeptical view.

Rapidly dwindling water table is putting Haryana farmers in a dilemma. The government is discouraging harvesting water-intensive crops as agriculture alone consumes 80 per cent of groundwater.