Monthly Archives: July 2020

It takes a village to raise a child and it took a “village” of experts to develop new machinery designed to raise the efficiency and productivity of...

A final application was made to get a Geographical Indication (GI) tag for Wada Kolam, a fragrant rice variety unique to the Palghar District of Maharashtra. ...

Almost 90% of Australian rice growers will not plant rice this season due to years of severe drought. As a result, the country’s supermarkets may...

We now know that conservatism—the reluctance of farmers to accept new ideas—only partly explains the low adoption of the new rice technology. The primary...

Cuba’s rice output in 2020 of 162,000 tons is insufficient to meet the 700,000 tons of rice needed to meet the country’s consumption. The shortfall...

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed transgenic rice that contains a gene that enables it to produce high levels of an amino acid...