Kiambu has always been known to be a farmers' hub with crops such as coffee, tea and diverse vegetables and fruits. However, to improve crop yields, many farmers in the area have embraced grafting, ...

For nearly a year, Hellen Rono, a farmer from Bomet County in western Kenya, has successfully kept tomato wilt disease at bay using grafting technology introduced through a China-Kenya agricultural ...

The buzz about grafted tomatoes gets louder all the time. So we decided to ask readers about their experiences growing them. The majority reported good -- or great -- results, and said they will plant ...

In South Louisiana, all of the citrus trees we grow are grafted. So, too, are many other fruit and nut trees, rose bushes and camellia plants. Grafting is a common horticulture technique. It's an ...

SANTIAGO, CHILE - Grafting of seedlings has been used for decades in many parts of the world, but adoption of the technique is still limited in many countries, due in part to higher costs of grafted ...

Agricultural grafting dates back nearly 3,000 years. By trial and error, people from ancient China to ancient Greece realized that joining a cut branch from one plant onto the stalk of another could ...

Recently, I was visiting my sister at Wrightsville Beach and we were invited to a tomato tasting party. Because I love tomatoes, I was looking forward to attending this summer party. When we arrived, ...

The widely used farm practice of grafting watermelon and other melon plants onto squash or pumpkin rootstocks results in larger amounts of certain pesticides in the melon fruit, scientists are ...

THE Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA) has stepped up its efforts to revitalise the cocoa sector with the recent planting of 100 grafted cocoa seedlings on a commercial farm ...

TUBOD, Lanao del Norte (PIA) — The provincial government here, through its Provincial Agriculture Office (PAO), distributed grafted calamansi seedlings as part of its comprehensive pre- and ...