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Nigeria approves bill to form the National Rice Development Council

The Nigerian Senate passed a bill seeking to establish the National Rice Development Council. The council is expected to lead to the comprehensive development of the rice sector to enhance local production of rice in the country and redcue its dependency on rice importation. The council will oversee the transformation...

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Philippne agriculture department project promotes clustered hybrid rice farms

The Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA) has launched a project that will establish clustered hybrid rice farms in different parts of country to showcase...

Vietnam pilots rice pest identification app in An Giang

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Plant Protection Department and the An Giang Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development...

Pakistan Agriculture Research Council to introduce rice varieties to enhance farm income

Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) will release four new long- and extra long- grain rice varieties aimed at increasing productivity and income...

Bangladesh Agri Minister calls for implementation of good agricultural practices policy

Bangladesh Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque urged the quick implenation of good agricultural practices (GAP) policy to increase the export...

Cambodia launches rice-growing scheme to help boost endangered sarus crane population

Over 17 hectares of farmland in Anlung Pring Province in Cambodia has been designated as a protected reserve for the endangered eastern sarus crane. Under...

Vietnam to develop alternatives to “rice first” policy to reduce methane emissions by 2030

The Vietnamese government is developing food system alternatives to rice as one of the countries that pledged to reduce methane emissions by 30 percent...

US, EU launch joint agriculture platform to tackle global sustainability and climate change challenges

The EU Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development and US Agriculture Department announced the formation of of a transatlantic collaboration...

Climate threats to smallholder farmers drive new investments in CGIAR research

Facing mounting evidence that climate change will fall hardest on agriculture-dependent regions like sub-Saharan Africa, a coalition of funders at the...

New school in France aims to attract and train next-gen, tech-savvy farmers

HECTAR, a training campus for high-tech, regenerative agriculture in France, is aiming to attract young people to go into agricuture. The school teaches...

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