The effect of a small insect that played havoc with local rice crops last fall remains unknown for 2026 as planting season ...
With temperatures creeping up as the climate warms, those very hungry caterpillars could get even hungrier, and more abundant. Crop losses to pests may grow. Insects will be “eating more of our lunch, ...
"It's a very simplified and vulnerable system." Experts issue warning about looming threat to global food supply: 'A major ...
SCIENCE CITY OF MUÑOZ (PIA) — The Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) recommends effective insect pest management in the rice fields. This is in line with the agency’s PalayCheck System, ...
Some rice farmers in Mangaldan, Pangasinan continued harvesting palay this January 2026, trying to recover what was left of ...
Climate change might lead to bigger populations of hungrier insects. This could have serious consequences for grain-growing regions in the Northwest and across the world. "And, of course, the impacts ...
Synthetic chemical elicitors, so called plant strengtheners, can protect plants from pests and pathogens. Most plant strengtheners act by modifying defense signaling pathways, and little is known ...