Ex-teacher fights lifestyle diseases with indigenous food

Ex-teacher fights lifestyle diseases with indigenous food

06 June 2019 The Star In Summary • Mugai says few people died of lifestyle diseases in the past as their diet mainly consisted of traditional foods. • Patient with high blood pressure says she manages condition with porridge using Mugai’s...
MI Farmers Rush To Plant Sorghum. Yes, Sorghum.

MI Farmers Rush To Plant Sorghum. Yes, Sorghum.

June 5, 2019 AG PRO All that rain has put farmers in Michigan way behind when it comes to planting. All that rain has put farmers in Michigan way behind when it comes to planting. However, some farmers are in a hurry to plant not just corn and soybeans but sorghum in...
Telangana-based NGO wins UN’s Equator Prize

Telangana-based NGO wins UN’s Equator Prize

June 04, 2019 The Hindu The women sangams (groups) of the Deccan Development Society have bagged the United Nation’s Equator Prize for 2019. They have been selected for standing as ‘an outstanding example of a local, nature-based solution to climate change and...
Sorghum making a rebound in Europe thanks to climate change

Sorghum making a rebound in Europe thanks to climate change

05/06/2019 France 24 Ferenc Kardos planted 300 hectares of sorghum instead of corn this year. From the fertile Hungarian plain where he lives all the way to southeastern France, the hot weather cereal is taking root in Europe. “With corn, we suffered losses...
South Africa’s sorghum area up from record low

South Africa’s sorghum area up from record low

06.04.2019 world grain PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA — After dropping to a record-low 29,000 planted hectares in 2017-18, the area planted with sorghum in South Africa rebounded in 2018-19 to 50,500 hectares, according to a June 3 Global Agricultural Information Network...
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