After more than 9,000 years in cultivation, annual paddy rice is now available as a long-lived perennial. The advancement means farmers can plant just once and reap as many as
Government agencies have begun introducing new rice varieties and climate-smart technology to reduce the shortage of rice in Kenya which stands at 600,000 metric tons
CERTIFIED SEEDS DISTRIBUTION. Certified seeds distributed to rice farmers in various cities and municipalities in Western Visayas in this photo taken in November 2023. As of Jan.
By Charlie Devereux and Corina Pons MADRID, Feb 8 (Reuters) – A Spanish rice variety traditionally used to make paella is under threat from a fungus after the European
This paper analyses the challenges of various types of capital assets to Indigenous rice farming in Bali, Indonesia, and Ifugao, the Philippines. Resilient rice farming in
Reports say in the first eight months of 2023, India sold rice worth over 500 million dollars to South Asian countries. A farmer works on rice saplings at a paddy field on the
The state government has been able to bring only 1.72 lakh acres under direct seeding of rice, against its target of 5 lakh acres. For the 2024 kharif season, Punjab plans to
What you need to know: When former Agriculture and Livestock Cabinet Secretary Mithika Linturi was invited to Parliament last year to speak about maize shortage in the country, he
Overall price growth down but global conditions cause food costs to climb. Farmers plant rice seedlings that are part of a breeding program for late-maturing varieties, at the