A new book explores the inexorable rise of the use of machinery in farmers’ fields. (Image source: FAO)
Farm machines have revolutionised agriculture and made life easy for farmers, but the machinery of tomorrow will also have to contribute to agriculture that is environmentally sustainable, says a new FAO book
This project is expected to help the people in the target provinces increase the water productivity and land-use efficiency. (Image source: Eva Schuster/sxc.hu)
World Bank has approved a funding of US$180mn to improve irrigated agricultural production systems in seven selected Vietnam provinces, which will help farming families with better irrigation, drainage service and farming techniques by 2019
Brende distributed sacks of rice seedlings in districts of Can-abay, Tingib and San Antonio. (Image source: IRRI/Flickr)
Norway has recently donated rice seedlings to 1,914 typhoon-affected farmers at three Samar districts in the Philippines
The total agricultural exports from Taiwan reached US$5bn globally in 2013. (Image source: Antonella Falbo/sxc.hu)
Taiwanese agriculture exports to Brunei for the first 10 months of 2013 reached a total of US$87mn
About 380,000 rural households are expected to directly benefit from the Modern Agriculture Development Project. (Image source: Rita Juliana/sxc.hu)
The World Bank has approved loans totalling US$305.1mn for two projects to support development of climate-resilient sustainable agriculture and control agricultural pollution in China
