The majority of Asian equities decline prior to Powell's Federal Reserve speech.

The majority of Asian stocks declined on Friday, discouraged by a decline on Wall Street that followed a profit report from Nvidia and conflicting economic data from the United States.

In afternoon trading, the Nikkei 225 decreased 2.0% to 31,634.37. The S&P/ASX 200 in Australia fel...

Reaping material resource from rice analysis

I keep in mind my granny, a single farmer, sowing "arate," a newly-introduced rice selection that was the utter her village. It had been the late Sixties or early Nineteen Seventies. IR8 was a semi-dwarf, and high-yielding selection, that the International Rice analysis Institute (IRRI)...