The government will survey rice farmers about their production intentions for the next year as well as in five and 10 years, agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi said Thursday. By understanding ...

Rice farmers have raised the alarm over the collapse of Nigeria’s rice industry, attributing the shutdown of local mills and mass job losses to cheap imports, insecurity, and lack of government ...

Arkansas farmers have either lost crops to weather or missed critical planting windows because of it, and it's coming down to the wire for rice farmers. The last day of the rice-planting season is ...

Jefferson County officials made clear they listened to the community on Tuesday by appointing a farmer back to the Drainage District 6 Board of Directors. At issue was an appointment to the board ...

‘We won’t survive’: Thai rice farmers brace for impact of US tariffs Crystal Wu Published: 8:54pm, 28 Apr 2025Updated: 8:55pm, 28 Apr 2025 ...

Farmers in India are known to prefer harvesting rice for its economic viability. Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh are among the top producers, accounting for a significant fraction of the country ...

Farmers in central Thailand have already begun harvesting their off-season rice, but prices have dropped to between 6,000 and 7,000 baht a tonne, compared with 10,000 to 11,000 baht a year ago ...

Louisiana is one of the nation’s top rice producers, with nearly 500,000 acres under cultivation. “When we start to see pauses in food aid shipments and sales, that creates uncertainty in the ...

Fred Zaunbrecher has been a rice farmer for 40 years. He says he’s not foreign to Louisiana's warm and moist climate, which is conducive to the growth of bacteria or fungus.

Future-proofing rice: how Asia’s farmers are innovating against climate odds From India to Vietnam, a new wave of innovation is transforming traditional rice farming into a resilient and eco ...

MANILA\ (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Alex Quinones has been a rice farmer in the Philippines for almost five decades – last summer was the first time his field dried up, forcing many of his ...

To achieve sustainable rice production and food security in the region, farmers in six Asian countries have used nuclear derived climate-smart agricultural practices and significantly increased their ...