Stakeholders have called for the adoption of advanced technologies to transform Africa’s seed systems and boost food production across the continent. This was made known at the 7th Seedconnect Africa ...

A new propagation technique that enabled farmers to grow yams from vine cuttings rather than bulky tubers is a major breakthrough toward addressing Nigeria’s ...

Hybrid seed production is vital for enhancing crop yield and quality, yet conventional methods in rapeseed are limited by inefficiency and high costs. Researchers have developed a streamlined two-line ...

Synthetic seed technology represents a significant biotechnological advancement in plant science, enabling the encapsulation of explants—such as nodal segments, shoot tips or embryos—in a gelling ...

The Central government is preparing to usher in a major overhaul of India's agricultural seed regulatory framework through the Seeds Act, 2025, a comprehensive legislation aimed at regulating the ...

Stakeholders have called for the adoption of advanced technologies to transform Africa’s seed systems and boost food production across the continent. This was made known at the 7th Seedconnect Africa ...

Dr Eliud Kireger, Director General, Kenya Agriculture Research and Livestock Organisation (KALRO), explains the new technology, Seed Production Technology for Africa (SPTA) for hybrid maize seeds at ...

Seed plants are essential as a source of food, fuel, medicine, and more. Now, a multidisciplinary team of researchers has combined deep botanical knowledge with powerful genomic technology to decode ...

Beck’s Hybrids announces it has acquired a Syngenta corn seed production and processing facility in southeast Nebraska, near the community of Phillips. The transaction is expected to be finalized on ...

Seventy-five-thousand dollars is a lot of money to put into a tool whose only job is to obliterate weed seeds. But buying such a tool – called a harvest weed seed control system (HWSC), which uses ...