Dragon fruit growers struggling to stay afloat have criticised the Federal Government for what they said is complete ignorance of the negative fallout from trade deals.   Marcus Karlsson is a second-generation farmer in the Northern Territory and his family were the first in the country to start producing dragonContinue Reading

Unidentified virus has caused killing of date trees in Khairpur district, triggering a wave of panic among the date producers.   Information gathered from farmers and researchers associated with Sindh Agriculture University Tandojam, Agriculture Training Institute Sakrand and agriculture extension department revealed that nobody is capable enough, despite collecting soilContinue Reading

A genomic analysis of some 60 citrus accessions has upended previously proposed taxonomic classifications.     Researchers led by the US Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute’s Guohong Albert Wu sequenced 30 citrus fruit genomes and compared them to previously sequenced genomes to unravel the genealogy and evolutionary history ofContinue Reading