KUCHING: Sarawak plans to expand padi cultivation areas as part of efforts to increase its rice self-sufficiency level (SSL), says Datuk Seri Dr Stephen Rundi. The state Food Industry, Commodity ...

However, the initiative faces two key challenges: low yield and the reluctance of farmers to accept the new method of rice cultivation in about 25% of the country’s paddy fields. Yet ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist ...

“There is also cultivation of rice on an additional 150 hectares of land at Owerrinta in Isiala Ngwa South local government area” the commissioner further said. “Recall that before ...

Throughout the Yangtze River Delta, a region in southern China famed for its widespread rice production, farmers grow belts of slender green stalks. Before they reach several feet tall and turn ...

Exports may suffer due to two key geopolitical issues: the proposed 26% US tariff on Indian goods, currently on hold, and rising tension between Iran and the US over Iran’s nuclear development ...

Over 80% of Liberia's 4.5 million population relies on small-scale subsistence farming, with rice serving as the staple crop. For centuries, Ttraditional shifting cultivation which requires both ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation The Malagasy government aims for self-sufficiency in rice production by 2027, targeting 6 million tons in 2024 and 11 ...

BMI, a unit of Fitch Solutions, projects that the Philippines’s rice production will pick up in the 2025/26 season due to “better weather conditions” and the extended Rice Competitiveness ...

Dr Solomon Gyan Ansah, the Director of Crop Services, the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has called for the need to improve local rice production in the West Africa sub-region. He said the ...

Rice cultivation is responsible for around 12% of global methane emissions, and these emissions are expected to increase with global warming and as the human population continues to grow.