Ms Gao and her classmates are gunning for online popularity as China’s “new farmers” – people who use the latest ... “Just ...

Farmers growing genetically modified rice in field trials in China report higher crop yields, reduced pesticide use and fewer pesticide-related health problems, according to a study by researchers in ...

Anastasia Mwamula, a farmer in Butaleja, Uganda, transformed her agricultural output through rice-fish farming—an ancient Chinese technique taught via the FAO-China-Uganda South-South ...

Dry spell is a jarring reminder of how China, the world's second-biggest economy, relies on increasingly strained water resources to feed its people and generate its power.

A severe drought has parched Jiangxi province and other major rice-growing areas in the Yangtze River Basin. Farmers in the region are growing increasingly fearful about the coming autumn harvest.

Every year, typically in late September or early October, Beijing unveils its import quotas for the following year, covering essential agricultural products such as wheat, rice, corn, cotton and ...

A rice farmer in Wuchang, Heilongjiang province, has taken to social media to seek help after her crops were damaged by floods brought by Typhoon Doksuri. The farmer, who goes by the nickname ...

A rice paddy field in Southwest China has been turned into a giant work of art -- and is attracting throngs of tourists.

Farmers planted three types of rice to ‘paint’ a living replica of gold mask unearthed at massive archaeological site in Sichuan province earlier this year.

The deal sets complex safety standards to prevent pests from entering China with rice imported from America, which, if met, opens a market of more than 1 billion rice eaters to U.S. farmers.

Li Man, a 76-year-old maize farmer near Chengde, is putting in the time. But China’s efforts to prepare for weather-related shocks have been of little help to him.