ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s State Fertilizer Company will give upto a 30,000 rupee fertilizer subsidy to small rice farmers for the current Maha season, Cabinet spokesman
PNA Negros Occidental recorded the highest rice yield at 4.01 metric tons (MT) per hectare in Western Visayas in 2023 to remain the second top-performing rice producer in the
By The Manila Times AMID a decline in the number of young Filipinos becoming rice farmers, the Department of Agriculture-Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA-PhilRice) has
by Nnaemeka Onyekachi An agri-business company, Hermam Synergy Ltd., has announced a support program aimed at empowering 13,000 farmers in Ibaji, Kogi State, to improve their
A number of issues such as climate change, environmental sustainability and food security accelerated the transition to sustainable agriculture. But what is sustainable farming
By Gurpreet Singh Nibber Market trends show that the rates of freshly harvested 1509 basmati variety, which has arrived in some mandis of Punjab’s Majha belt, is fetching
This year, Kharif crop sowing has risen by 2 percent, with the total area reaching 1031.56 lakh hectares, up from 1010.52 lakh hectares last year. Notable increases have been
Basmati rice prices have dropped even before the season has begun, falling by 28.5 percent compared to last year. Currently, prices are approximately Rs 2,500 per quintal, down
By HIRONORI KATO/ Staff Writer As the quality of rice across Japan has been devastated by the intense heat of recent summers, the agricultural industry is increasingly turning