The main objection to the cultivation of oil palm by the Central Environmental Authority (CEA) and several other environmentalists is its purported excessive consumption of water, leading to the...
Local social media has been giving huge publicity to a recent San Francisco Federal court judgement in favour of a plaint filed by a groundskeeper, Dewayne Johnson in...
In recent years, there has been no subject in agriculture as widely discussed as glyphosate, both locally and globally, but no country has rushed into banning this global...
The President, ministers and other dignitaries were recently seen pushing ploughs in paddy fields wading knee deep through the mud and sipping ‘kahata’ with...
The government recently launched a new food drive with slogans such as atu kotu purawamu (lets fill the garners and farmyards) and “cultivate every inch of crop land...
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