BHATINDA - Indian farmers are for the first time abandoning genetically modified cotton after a devastating pest attack ravaged their fields, sowing doubts about the crop technology that had been ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Jon Whatley is a 4th-generation farmer in South Texas. His great-grandfather moved the family down from Tennessee to Odem, just north of Corpus Christi, to grow corn, sorghum and ...

A collaboration between the University of Arizona, cotton growers, and government and industry partners eradicated the pink bollworm -- one of the world's most damaging crop pests -- from the United ...

MWANZA: TANZANIA Cotton Board(TCB) has purchased 16 modern self-propelled boom sprayers to streamline pest control in cotton farming. Information from the Ministry of Agriculture today, February 24, ...

Researchers report the effects of land use, transgenic cotton, and weather on cotton pests in China. China is one of the world's largest pesticide consumers, with cotton being the most heavily treated ...

KORHOGO, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Without pausing to wipe the sweat from their brows, workers in northern Ivory Coast picked cotton by the handful - a crop saved by the use of extra insecticides after ...

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI - Two Indian states are suffering the first major pest infestation since the country adopted genetically modified cotton in 2002, raising concerns over the vulnerability of the ...

Using pests as part of an insect birth control program helps to get rid of them, UA researchers find. A new approach that combines the planting of pest-resistant cotton and releasing large numbers of ...

PERRY, Ga. — Blake Bledsoe has been farming for nearly 30 years. However, this cotton season, he and his team at the Minerva Plantation Farms in Perry are dealing with something unlike anything he's ...

Experts and farmers say cotton acreage in Punjab has steadily declined since 2021-22. Due to the sharp decline in work in cotton fields, farmworkers are switching to other jobs ...

Cotton jassids, found in Georgia in July, pose a threat to several major crops, including cotton and peanuts. The cotton jassid, an invasive insect native to India, is spreading in the state, posing a ...