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Farm Pass, the agricultural solution on Mastercard’s Community Pass digital platform, helps connect people in the most remote and underserved communities to service providers, including banks, schools, healthcare providers, governments, and international development organizations. Piloted in Kenya in...

Severe water shortage during the rice-growing season in the province of Sindh is forcing some rice farmers to sell their land to real estate developers...

Despite an earlier ban on its wheat exports, India is not considering any restrictions on its rice exports. The world’s biggest rice-exporting...

A Philippine senator urged the country’s farmers to move away from subsistence farming toward farm enterprise management and development to increase...

A climate change hotspot region that features both small-scale and intensive farming, South Asia epitomizes the crushing pressure on land and water resources...

More than 60,000 Indian farming families are reducing their carbon footprint by practicing natural farming and agroforestry on almost 165,000 hectares...

High-yielding rice varieties from China are easing food insecurity in the rural areas of Northern Bangladesh during lean periods. The country’s...

The Central Java Provincial Government has urged the Andalan Farmers and Fishers Association (KTNA) to use digital technology to attract millennials to...

Rice researchers at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center launched a project that uses data collected by drones to speed up rice cultivar selection...

Fiji will be self-sufficient in rice within 20 years, according to the country’s Minister for Agriculture. The minister cited increasing rice...