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 ...

After drying, treat the rice seed with 3 g of Sprint 75 WS (mancozeb + carbendazim) per kg of seed. Make a paste of the fungicide by dissolving it in 10–12 mL of water and rub it on the seed.

“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 ...

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 ...

SINGAPORE – To mitigate the effects of rice cultivation on climate change and meet rising demand for rice, researchers in Singapore have come up with a way to grow it more sustainably.

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 ...

If you shift from the cultivation of rice to alternative cereals such as millets, maize and sorghum, it could significantly reduce climate-induced production losses, while increasing farmers ...

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 ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesia’s rice production from January to March 2025 is expected to grow, reaching 15.06 million tons of dry milled rice grain (GKG), said the Acting Head of Statistics Indonesia ...