Today, seed banks around the world are doing much of the work of saving crop varieties that could be essential resources under future growing conditions. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway ...

India is set to ban exports of sugar for the first time in seven years following a low-yield cane crop hurt by a lack of ... its exports of non-basmati white rice in a move that took about a ...

India overwhelmingly grows some of the thirstiest crops: rice, wheat and sugar cane. Over the last half century, farm productivity has leapt forward, but so, too, has water usage — up 500% over ...

By Rajendra Jadhav DEVAS, India (Reuters) -Soybean acreage in India is likely to fall this year as corn and sugar cane could ...

The crops grown as part of diversification will ... from farmers who grow these in place of wheat, rice and sugarcane for the next five years, a senior official said on condition of anonymity.

BANGKOK – Thailand is preparing contingency plans to deal with a potential drought that could last years and squeeze global supplies of sugar and rice ... Sugar cane is a sturdy crop, but ...

other crops such as coffee, indigo and rice were also grown. An illustration showing a sugar refinery on a plantation in the West Indies, 1725. These refineries processed raw sugar cane to make ...