ISLAMABAD: The second batch of 1,000 Pakistani agricultural specialists has returned home after completing intensive training in China, carrying with them advanced knowledge in smart farming technologies aimed at modernising Pakistan’s agricultural sector.

Segments of U.S. agriculture are looking to the Trump administration to increase exports to China, even if it takes bending free-market principles. Farm groups representing major commodities sent comments this month to trade officials investigating whether China reneged on a 2020 pledge to remove non-tariff trade barriers and buy more U.

BEIJING, March 4 (Reuters) - China retaliated swiftly on Tuesday, March 4, against fresh U.S. tariffs with hikes to import levies covering $21 billion worth of American agricultural and food products, moving the world's top two economies a step closer ...

Optimism that Washington and Beijing could be close to a trade agreement seemed to lose some steam on Wednesday, even after reports that China bought U.S. soybeans for the first time since May. China’s COFCO has purchased three cargoes of soybeans from ...

China’s determination to become self-sufficent and resolve its food security challenges could put the U.S., as the world's leading producer in agriculture, in Beijing’s crosshairs, a federal report warned this week. The report released by the U.S ...

An unmanned crop seeder works in a demonstration at an intelligent farm in Jiangxiang Town of Nanchang County, east China's Jiangxi Province, Nov. 14, 2020. Various farming devices produced by more than 20 manufacturers are displayed at the intelligent ...

China’s 1.4 billion people are building up an appetite that is changing the way the world grows and sells food. The Chinese diet is becoming more like that of the average American, forcing companies to scour the planet for everything from bacon to bananas.

This is a map of soil moisture trends in Northern China during the growing seasons from 1983-2012. The shading shows the trend in satellite-observed surface soil moisture, and the circles represent monitoring stations within agricultural plots. A Purdue ...

The beginning of agriculture is one of the most significant events in human history. The origin and spread of agriculture accelerated the development of human society and economy and fundamentally altered humans’ role in the Earth’s ecosystem.