Usman Javaid is the CEO of Ricult International and Ricult Pakistan, leading an AI-powered solution empowering smallholder farmers across Asia through digital financial technology. Ricult operates as ...

In the 1920s, Soviet officials seized upon the expansion of cotton farming in Asia: Cotton was declared “white gold,” and huge tracts of land were irrigated for cotton production. The problem was, ...

Have we entered the golden age of plant engineering? In the 1960s, Norman Borlaug, an American biologist, helped spark a period of transformative agricultural innovation known as the Green Revolution ...

During the last couple of decades, the agriculture sector in India has witnessed a crisis in terms of decline in growth rate, rising numbers of farmer suicides, and a widening gap between agricultural ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The aftermath of the Second World War accelerated a looming catastrophe of a planet unable ...

Kumar’s multifaceted book recounts the story of India’s green revolution—or how the country became self-sufficient in food grain production by the 1970s. This revolution had its origins in colonial ...