A daily digest of market, agri-policy, technology and climate news — from Ukraine and the world. 77 news items in 19 sections.
New modeling suggests cassava can spread to more African regions, but cassava brown streak disease risk may expand even faster.
A Scientific Reports study applied a CEC-based fertility index for variable soybean seeding and reported higher yields and net returns than fixed-rate seeding.
Nature Genetics reports a genomics-guided maize breeding strategy for high-density planting, with new hybrids delivering 4.1–9.2% higher yields than Yufeng303 across test environments.
Farmers in Australia’s Riverina say rabbit pressure is causing losses of up to $100,000 a year on individual properties, with crop damage, baiting costs and weakening biological control…
Johns Hopkins researchers found that tomatoes, carrots and lettuce irrigated with treated wastewater tend to accumulate trace pharmaceuticals mainly in leaves, while edible tomato fruits and carrot roots…
A Scientific Reports study found that combining naphthalene acetic acid and salicylic acid improved cucumber performance under salinity, supporting growth, fruit quality and antioxidant activity.
Nanoplastics are emerging agricultural contaminants. Two decades of engineered nanomaterials research offer methods and mechanistic insight, but nanoplastics’ polymer diversity, weathering, and additive loads require hybrid characterization and…
Biologically synthesized silica nanoparticles using chia seed extract enhanced stability and surface area, and when used at 100 ppm for nano‑priming improved germination, biomass and multiple physiological and…
Laboratory tests show a staple legume can germinate, grow, flower and produce viable seed in simulated moon soil when compost-like organic matter and beneficial fungal partners are added,…