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LOW-CARBON rice farming practices and technologies as well as carbon credit opportunities in agriculture were introduced to ...
Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn has presided over an elaborate annual ceremony that marks the start of the rice-planting ...
Regardless of the numbers, the pressure of negotiating with the U.S. is putting a spotlight on an ongoing rice crisis in ...
Small farmers, however, were not as receptive. In Dumangas, Iloilo, tenant rice farmer Ricardo Domines said that while the program may favor consumers, it threatens to drive farmers like him ...
NAKHON PATHOM — Thai farmer Daeng Donsingha was already worried for her family of nine when rice prices in the world's second-largest exporter of the staple crashed this year after India resumed ...
Thai rice farmers face significant challenges as rice prices drop and U.S. tariffs threaten exports. The potential tariffs could make Thai jasmine rice uncompetitive, handing an advantage to Vietnam.
"I just learned about GM rice today and am not sure exactly what it is. But it does frighten me," the daily quoted rice farmer Wichean Janthoona as saying. Farmers feared GM crops would reduce ...
Kutigi, a rice farmer, explained that some farmers who usually come from Kebbi, Sokoto, Katsina and Kano states, who are also a huge sources of revenue to Niger State, are seriously affected by ...
The response from the farming community has been positive. Amrit Persaud, a rice farmer from the region, expressed appreciation for the Vice President’s swift intervention and the government’s ...
Imagine a rice farmer in Maharashtra receiving a message like this on a demand aggregator app, which she also uses to source input materials like seeds, pesticides, fertilisers, etc., through the ...
Researchers are turning to rice value addition as a way to improve diets, enhance nutrition and reduce dependence on imports. As rice consumption continues to rise across Africa, researchers are ...
SAN MIGUEL, Bulacan, Philippines — The farmer’s group 4SM Agri Multi-Purpose Cooperative, using its own rolling stores, has started selling rice at only P32 per kilo here. Simeon Sioson ...