Abia State government has said that it would next week flag off wet season rice cultivation program on a target 8,500 ...

But producing rice typically emits a lot of methane – a powerful global warming gas. The methane is produced by microorganisms that thrive in the flooded fields where rice is grown. They break down ...

A new study, appearing in Nature Genetics and led by researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST ...

Pioneering agritech startup firm Agrilever has comitted to help the country’s agricultural sector boost productivity and improve resiliency by empowering small Filipino rice farmers with technological ...

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 ...

This Japanese microbiologist, farmer and philosopher decided to become a small-scale rice farmer and spent 25 years not ploughing his 1.5 acres, not using artificial chemicals (not even artificial ...

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 ...

Vice President and General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party, Bharrat Jagdeo, has assured rice farmers in Region Two that steps will be taken to assist them with the struggle to find ...

Farmers say they are losing livestock to dingoes after a ban on controlling the animals. Lethal control of dingoes in the Mallee was banned a year ago, due to concerns over the dwindling ...

BANGKOK/HANOI/JAKARTA -- Prices in Southeast Asian rice markets are plunging because of oversupply after India resumed exports of the staple grain. White rice export prices in Thailand were $412 a ...

Yet, the solution—a part of our agricultural heritage for centuries—is being glaringly ignored: rice-duck integration. Indeed, the ancient practice alone can provide small farmers in rice ...