Araza urged the participants, composed of rice farmer groups and associations, irrigators' associations, and key officials from the municipal agricultural office and local government units to take ...

Despite a significant increase in Boro rice production in the haor (marshy) region—thanks to favourable weather this year—the price of newly harvested paddy has not dropped, due to the enhanced ...

Pokkali rice farmers in the district have demanded that the district administration take over the rice fields in coastal areas in view of the situation where the fields continued to be flooded by ...

Once the National Food Authority's (NFA) stocks of 350,000 metric tons (MT) is exhausted, the agency will encounter operational difficulties replenishing it because it has to source its supply from ...

The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Gomoa East, Margaret Naana Ackom, has pledged possible compensation for rice farmers affected by a spillage at Gomoa Okyereko in the Central Region.

The country's largest group of rice collectors and wholesalers, the Japan Agricultural Co-operatives, are significantly raising their advance payments to farmers, a benchmark for setting the ...

The local industry and farmers are also relieved that several ... Trade sources told FE that keeping in mind the apprehensions expressed by rice processors in UK, a proposal to reduce import ...

The government plans to allocate more than 7 billion baht this year to support off-season rice farmers, while ensuring all farmers have access to affordable fertilisers. Commerce Minister Pichai ...

Segun Atho is the National Vice President, Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN). In this interview with Charles Okonji, the Lagos-based farmer who went into agriculture due to his inability ...

Kakinada: A farmer with a modern mindset in Chebrolu village ... He's also doing experiments in rice varieties. He cultivated Basmati rice in four acres and got yields of 30 bags per acre.

Our experimental site (Yunnan Province, China) favours the development of rice blast epidemics because of its cool, wet climate. Farmers commonly make multiple foliar fungicide applications to ...

YANGON/PHNOM PENH (Bernama): Farmers throughout South-East Asia continue to honour a centuries-old ploughing ceremony that ushers in rainfall and a new rice planting season. Many agrarian ...