M.S. Swaminathan, an Indian agricultural scientist who vastly expanded his country’s production of wheat and rice as a mastermind of the “Green Revolution” in the 1960s, an initiative that was ...

A Singapore-based website tapping into the growing demand for environmentally careers in Asia is hoping it would be the link to "meaningful" employments as countries try to revive economies hit hard ...

Have we entered the golden age of plant engineering? In the 1960s, Norman Borlaug, an American biologist, helped spark a period of transformative agricultural innovation known as the Green Revolution ...

Even now, in a number of major crops, India's yields lag China and in some cases, by half - and that's been very puzzling, ...

In the 1920s, Soviet officials seized upon the expansion of cotton farming in Asia: Cotton was declared “white gold,” and huge tracts of land were irrigated for cotton production. The problem was, ...

A female fruit seller was preparing her products at the side of a bustling street in Hanoi, Viet Nam. Despite economic growth over ...

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