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Southeast Asia is the hub of the world’s rice economy. As a region, it has been a net exporter of rice for most of the past 110 years (the exception...

(Photo: R Raman, AfricaRice) The 3rd Africa Rice Congress, held in Yaoundé, Cameroon, in October 2013, emphasized the need to invest in the modernization...

A GPS-guided field canopy sensor system mounted on a spray boom is used to measure some physical traits of rice plants. (Photo: IRRI) Since the first type...

Farmers holding rice baskets. For the past four decades, the global rice market has been dominated by a few exporters, namely, Thailand, Vietnam, the United...

Promoting locally produced rice sustains cultivation of the crop, which leads to the country’s economic growth.(Photos: R. Raman, AfricaRice) A celebration...

The Rice Trader’s 4th annual World Rice Conference revealed that the global rice market was hinged on political decisions that would dictate rice exports,...

(Photo: The Rice Trader) The 3rd World Rice Conference India’s export machine emerged as the talk of the town in Ho Chi Minh City during The Rice Trader’s...

Compared with other West African countries such as Mali and Senegal, which have been growing rice for centuries, Uganda is just “a new kid on the...

Lien Dai of the Vietnam Food Association (left) with V. Subramanian. (Photo: The Rice Trader) Sustained price volatility” was the conclusion at the...

Rice is an integral part of life, history, and culture in the Philippines. (Photo: Ariel Javellana, Gene Hettel, and Jose Raymond Panaligan)  The smattering...