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China’s Impossible Rice Quotas Turn Farmland Into a Numbers Game

Officials in a southern Chinese county were assigned a rice quotas that exceeded the total amount of farmland they were legally required to protect. With no way to meet the quota,...

China is making a great leap forward in food production – this time for real

In June 1958, as China’s Great Leap Forward campaign gained traction, state media began reporting astronomical agricultural yields, including claims from central Henan province of...

Ranked: The World’s Largest Agricultural Economies

August 03, 2026 | Source: Visual Capitalist | by Dorothy Neufeld Global agriculture generated $5.2 trillion in production value in 2024, making it one of the world’s largest indus...

How China’s ‘magic’ rice seeds are transforming the fortunes of Nigerian farmers

Just outside the Nigerian capital Abuja, where Green Agriculture West Africa Limited (Gawal) is based, locals do not refer to the company by name, instead as the place where the Ch...

Ranked: The World’s Largest Agricultural Economies

A handful of countries produce most of the world's food. See the latest global rankings and where each nation stands.

China’s drone-farming boom eyes emerging markets as agriculture automation spreads

To offset an ageing agricultural workforce and boost sustainable yields, China is aggressively accelerating the adoption of farm drones – a trend that analysts say could spread to...

Chinese scientists propose turning abandoned coal mines into underground farms

Chinese scientists have proposed developing “underground agriculture” in abandoned coal mine tunnels as part of a push to create a green, circular economy for the country’s massive...

US public investments in ag research declined as China’s boomed

For many decades, the United States led the world in public funding for agriculture research. But federal and state investments peaked in 2002 and have declined, adjusted for infla...

CHINA-INNER MONGOLIA-RICE FIELDS-SCENERY (CN)

(260820) -- HINGGAN LEAGUE, Aug. 20, 2026 (Xinhua) -- An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 20, 2026 shows a rice field featuring a picture at Haolibao Town in Jalaid Banner of Hingg...

As rice output falls, Malaysia looks to China’s ‘2 yields, 1 land’ model

Malaysia is looking to China’s rice-prawn farms as a model to extract more from its shrinking paddy land as a slide in rice self-sufficiency has left it increasingly reliant on imp...

China’s new hybrid rice can preserve its high-yield traits across generations, allowing farmers to...

Innovative Chinese scientists introduced a self-cloning hybrid rice system that ensures impressive yields while allowing farmers to reuse seeds. This groundbreaking method cuts dow...

Korea's agricultural outreach sees success in Asia, Africa

Korea’s Rural Development Administration (RDA) has achieved landmark successes in its overseas agricultural official development assistance projects, turning decades-long challenge...

Tariff triumph for agriculture goods

Inventories and farming method gains bolster food system against ‘super’ El Nino

Still, wars in the Middle East and the Black Sea region that impact fertilizer availability temper optimism, experts have warned.

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A farmer collects tea leaves at a plantation in Meitan County, southwestern China. — AFP

China Focus: China's cotton know-how takes root in Central Asia

URUMQI, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- Several hundred kilometers from Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, cotton plants in a 1,000-mu (about 66.67 hectares) demonstration field are approach...

China's cotton know-how takes root in Central Asia

URUMQI, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- Several hundred kilometers from Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, cotton plants in a 1,000-mu (about 66.67 hectares) demonstration field are approach...

While helping African farmers, China’s not funding food processing

China’s agricultural funding mainly goes to farm development, fisheries, irrigation, mechanisation, agricultural technology and rural infrastructure. Chinese invest less in agro-pr...

China's high-rise pig farming leads to pork glut, falling prices

Firms tap AI and sensors to boost indoor farming as Japan faces farmer shortage

The government is promoting the adoption in agriculture of advanced technologies, with a target of ¥4.6 trillion in public and private investment by fiscal 2040.

China Allocates $319M for Farm Disaster Prevention

China has allocated $319 million, to prevent agricultural disasters and repair water conservancy infrastructure. The Ministry of Finance announced the allocation on Monday. The fun...

Mohamad Sabu: Malaysia must leverage technology, rural development to strengthen food security

 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 27 — Malaysia needs to learn from China’s experience in strengthening the agricultur...

Asia-Pacific Community: Chinese know-how fuels Mongolia's Gobi greening drive

ULAN BATOR/HOHHOT, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Deep in Mongolia's Gobi area, technicians from China's M-Grass Ecology and Environment (Group) Co., Ltd. crouched on the sandy ground, inspec...

Chinese vice premier stresses disaster prevention for bumper autumn grain harvest

HOHHOT, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Liu Guozhong has stressed the need to step up agricultural disaster prevention and mitigation to secure a bumper autumn grain harve...