Two investors from China today offered to share modern agricultural technology to increase the production of rice in Kelantan in tandem with the government's aim to increase the income of padi farmers.

But he has a newly created job: vice-ranking Republican in the House Judiciary Committee. Congressman Bob Goodlatte has served for six years as the top Republican in the House Agriculture Committee. But after four years as the committee's chairman and -- after Democrats won control of Congress in 2006 -- two years as its ranking Republican, Goodlatte is stepping down because of a six-year ...

China's agriculture insurance income reached 10.54 billion yuan (1.54 billion U.S. dollars) by this November, soaring 112 percent compared with the same period last year, the country's top insurance regulator announced here Saturday. "With what we have achieved in 2008, we will further develop insurance related to agriculture, farmers and rural areas in 2009," said Wu Dingfu, chairman of the ...

11 a.m. -- The Department of Agriculture will be taking Christmas trees to mulch, free of charge. The service begins at 8 a.m. tomorrow. A staging area will be set up near the Agriculture Department's Mangilao office. Residents are requested to unload trees and stack them neatly at the staging area.

Bhubaneswar, Dec 27 : The Orissa government today took a policy decision to set up a government engineering college and an agriculture college in tribal-dominated Kalhandi district.

MANILA, Dec. 27 (PNA) -- In these difficult times of global economic slowdown and the ill-effects of climate change, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said it has lined up an array of measures that include aggressive planting initiatives, higher investments in hard infrastructure, and stepping up the implementation of its root crops production program to sustain Philippine agriculture's growth ...

4:30 p.m. Dec. 27 -- The Department of Agriculture will be taking Christmas trees to mulch, free of charge. The service begins at 8 a.m. Monday.

The Agronomic Division of the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is pushing to be more tech savvy, asking clients to receive reports electronically and launching a new barcode tracking system to make communication easier between the soil testing lab and its users.

Agriculture futures rise on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for March delivery gained 17 cents to $5.9925 a bushel; March corn rose 14.25 cents to $4.1225 a bushel; March oats advanced 12.25 cents to $2.31 a bushel; and March soybeans jumped 37.5 cents to $9.565 a bushel.

Agriculture futures rise on the Chicago Board of Trade.