From 2003 to 2009, the total grain loss from various natural disasters was 303.35 million tons - more than four times the increase in output over the same period, CAAS statistics showed. "Nearly 60 ...

As an approach to compensate for agricultural labor shortage in Japan of an aging society, a factory that plants vegetables by farming is planned to appear in Kyoto, where a robot (= a machine that ...

The business concept of growing vegetables indoors using "vegetable factories" -- which is being pushed by a number of major Japanese electronics companies -- is continuing to make steady progress ...

Yang Qichang, a leading agricultural technology scientist at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, checks vegetables growing in a plant factory in Beijing. Feng Yongbin / China Daily ...