CAXITO, Angola -- After decades of civil war destroyed Angola's fertile farmland and a booming oil industry pushed out all other commerce, Santa Rodrigo wondered how she could ever bring up her five ...

A stroll around the Imenti area in Meru reveals swathes of lush green farms where banana plantations are flourishing alongside the region's traditional crop, miraa (khat). As farmers increasingly ...

Bartle Frere Bananas, located in Queensland, Australia, is using cellular and radio frequency identification (RFID)-based Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to ensure the sustainability of its farm ...

Producers in Martinique and Guadeloupe have significantly reduced their use of pesticides over the past decade, but the extra ...

Panama disease, an infection that ravages banana plants, has been sweeping across Asia, Australia, the Middle East, and Africa. The impact has been devastating. In the Philippines alone, losses have ...

This article by Nan Lwin is from The Irrawaddy, an independent news website in Myanmar, and is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. This 500-acre banana plantation in ...

(Beyond Pesticides, November 7, 2024) Organic banana production is significantly more conducive to microbial decomposition than its chemical-intensive counterparts in the Caribbean nation of ...

CAXITO, Angola, May 19 (Reuters) - After decades of civil war destroyed Angola's fertile farmland and a booming oil industry pushed out all other commerce, Santa Rodrigo wondered how she could ever ...