the high cost of crop production, which has increased manifold in recent years due to rising prices

tonnes over the course of nine years — with farmers across KP complaining about the the crop

the year end, further tilting the foreign trade balance against Pakistan. Cotton crop was blatantly

The country is estimated to have harvested 355.35 million tonnes of horticulture crops in the

MUMBAI( REUTERS)-Heavy rains brought by Cyclone Gulab damaged India's summer-sown crops such as

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The programme will target agri-food systems of four sectors — maize, rice and wheat crops; cocoa

also be used for crop forecasting and disease monitoring, ” Topp told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Northern Ireland is set to miss out on Britain’s gene-edited crops revolution because of the Brexit

prepared for the torrential rain that inundated fields earlier this summer and decimated their crops