Plant scientists have been employing science to improve crops for centuries. David Harris from the University of London believes that gatherers began selectively breeding wheat about 12,500 B.C.

Pointing to a wriggling earthworm, a sign of good soil health, Gail Fuller explained that conventional, tilled fields would be too cold for earthworms to be that close to the surface.

The article below begins by explaining (the definition) of The fourth industrial revolution, going over to where Africa stands in total with respect to the revolution.

Perhaps because there are no chimney stacks belching smoke, the contribution of the world’s farms to climate change seems somehow remote.

“What would South Africa be like if the ANC ruled it for 27 years?” If this question had been asked in 1986, most whites (and probably many blacks in private) would have predicted utter disaster, as happened in Zimbabwe, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, Angola, Mozambique and other African countries post-colonisation.

From assessing and sorting fresh fruit to assembling vegetable packages.