By News Agency , Agency POULTRY and rice farmers in Nigeria have blamed high cost of feeds and production for the skyrocketing prices of their produce. Not only the consumers are finding it difficult at this festive period, the farmers are not finding it easy as well. The high cost of chicken which has skyrocketed […]
By Web Desk ISLAMABAD: Pakistan rice exports increased by 35.40 percent during the first five months of the current fiscal year (2024-25) in comparison to the exports of the same period last year. According to data from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), more than 2.377 million metric tons of rice, including basmati rice and […]
Potato and onion prices have dropped with the arrival of new harvests. However, Broiler chicken prices have surged by Tk20 per kg. In addition, soybean oil supply has yet to normalise. The overall rice prices have not stabilised despite the recent arrival of Aman rice. In fact, prices have surged by Tk100-Tk300 per sack over […]
Global New Light of Myanmar Under the programme of ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve (APTERR), 3,500 tonnes of rice to be provided by China and the Republic of Korea will be reserved and distributed to disaster-prone communities next year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation.Myanmar received 8,938.8 tonnes of stocks donated […]
CGIAR Initiative on Digital Innovation By Shalini Gakhar and Steve Klassen (International Rice Research Institute) The impact of drone technology is growing across various sectors, and agriculture is no exception. Globally, the market for agricultural drones is worth US $32.4 billion, compared to US $127 billion for the total value of drone-powered solutions. For smallholder […]
