International rice trading is not a business for the faint-hearted. Thailand’s exporters knew that well. They also...
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Unique to Africa, rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV) has become the continent’s most rapidly spreading disease of...
The 26th session of the Council of Ministers of the Africa Rice Center (WARDA), held in Abuja,...
This was the scene in late August 2007 throughout towns on the Philippine island of Luzon in...
The land around Pang Cang village of Suoi Giang Commune in Vietnam’s northern province of Yen Bai...
A country that is home to around one-fifth of the entire planet’s population faces some serious challenges....
On a steaming hot Beijing day in August 2007, a group of researchers from China Agricultural University...
The signs are ominous across West Africa. The price of rice is rising and, consequently, a...
According to the latest figures from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), paddy...
As if rice farming weren’t hard enough. It is patently clear now that humans have...
