KOTA KINABALU: Sabah aims to slash its dependence on imported rice with the launch of the Sabah Padi and Rice Board (SPRB), targeting a 30% food self-sufficiency level (SSL) by next year and 60% ...

(Bernama pic) The Sabah government today revived the Sabah Rice and Padi Board (LPBS), aiming to increase the state’s rice self-sufficiency level to 30% by next year and 60% by 2030. Chief ...

After years of campaigning by Greenpeace, a court in the Philippines has revoked the permit to grow “Golden Rice”, a genetically modified crop designed to combat malnutrition. The move is a ...

Farmers in the Philippines may be able to continue growing golden rice genetically modified to combat malnutrition, despite a court decision revoking the permit for planting it. The Philippines ...

The Philippines was the first country in the world to approve golden rice Workers inspect fully grown rice varieties at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Los Banos town ...

Padi planting in Kedah for the second season ... The Muda area is Kedah’s rice bowl, covering an area of 100,000 hectares and represents 23% of national rice cultivation area and almost 40% ...

In April, the Philippines’ Supreme Court heeded farmers’ and activists’ calls to look into the safety promise of Golden Rice, a genetically modified grain created to tackle the vitamin A ...

PUTRAJAYA: All padi millers and rice wholesalers have been asked to increase the supply of local white rice (BPT) by 20 percent through the Local White Rice Special Programme, as one of the ...

In the late 1990s, German scientists developed a genetically modified variety of rice called Golden Rice. It was claimed to be able to fight Vitamin A deficiency, which is the leading cause of ...

A year after regulatory approval, the Philippines has started transplanting Golden Rice this wet season, becoming the first country in the world to go for commercial cultivation of ...

The Philippines on Friday approved commercial cultivation of vitamin A-rich Golden Rice, long touted as a partial remedy for childhood malnutrition. It comes at a time when scientists in Bangladesh ...