Passionate for genetic diversity, believe in science, technology, innovations for sustainable food and nutritional security🌾🌽🍌🍎 RT not always as endorsement
India’s fertility rate has fallen below replacement for the first time in the country’s history, declining from a TFR of 2.3 to 1.9 in just a decade.
Delhi’s fertility rate now sits at 1.2, lower than Finland’s.
Follow: @AFpost
INDIA: 33.4 Million hectare of wheat crop remains resilient despite weather-related challenges (heat stress), due to higher acreage, timely sowing, and improved varietal adoption.
https://t.co/NOvY6jpdNk
In India, agriculture, which still supports close to half the country’s workforce, cannot be carried into that vision on a climate-stressed, water-short, soil-depleted production base.
Indian scientists create world’s first AI-designed gene editor for crops
While a US company had earlier developed a similar AI-designed system for human cells, this is the first successful demonstration in plants
https://t.co/ViWiohmCYf
Happy 100th birthday David Attenborough! Nature salutes you
The science communicator has raised awareness of the natural world and its myriad interconnections on which humans depend
https://t.co/0lZAAJT4Sn
Did Bt cotton fail India, or did India fail Bt cotton?
For 20 years, the pink bollworm has been quietly evolving past India's Bt cotton, while the country's laboratories waited for a regulatory signature that never came.
https://t.co/ITrjotZaCb
Calling all researchers in Plant Genetic Resources from Peninsular India!
We are delighted to announce that NSPPI 2026 will be hosted at ICAR–Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bengaluru, on 17-19 September 2026.
Stay tuned for more details on registration and abstract!
Hunger declines globally, but rises in Africa and western Asia: UN report
This year’s The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report also examines the causes and consequences of recent food inflation
https://t.co/svAvya6zLf