LAHORE: Secretary Agriculture Punjab Iftikhar Ali Sahoo on Saturday said that the department of agriculture Punjab has intensified its actions against the burning of rice straw. To date, 1,289 incidents of burning rice straw have been reported. A total of 1,700 acres of land have been affected by rice straw burning across the province. As […]
The Punjab government promoted PR-126 to conserve groundwater, but experts argue that the rush to adopt this variety led to inadequate seed supply, allowing spurious and poor-quality hybrid seeds to flood the market. Vibha Sharma/Tribune News Service The Centre has released its first advance estimate for the Kharif season, predicting a record food grain harvest […]
By Adrian H. Halili, Reporter PHILIPPINE rice imports in 2025 will be driven by the expected decline in the production of palay (unmilled rice) this year, analysts said. “We will have to import more next year to cover up the drop in production this year. Aside from this, demand for rice will increase because of […]
The central government has fixed an estimated target of 185 lakh tonnes for paddy procurement for the ongoing KMS (kharif marketing season) 2024-25 which will continue till November 30. Press Trust of India New Delhi The Centre has procured 120.67 lakh tonnes of paddy so far from Punjab, or 65 per cent of the estimated […]
Farmers who have harvested the fragrant rice are happy despite drop in prices. By Prabhudatta Mishra Basmati farmers in Punjab are happy despite receiving prices lower than last year. The reason for their happiness is the problems with the current procurement situation in the State amid a late purchase of non-Basmati paddy after a fortnight-long […]
By Mayank Bhardwaj and Rajendra Jadhav NEW DELHI, Nov 8 (Reuters) – India’s rice inventories surged to an all-time high of 29.7 million metric tons in November, sources said on Friday, nearly three times the government’s target, as export curbs imposed over the past two years bumped up local supplies. Higher stocks would allow the […]
MANILA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Alex Quinones has been a rice farmer in the Philippines for almost five decades – last summer was the first time his field dried up, forcing many of his neighbors to swap farm life for street sweeping. “We were not able to harvest any rice. This drought was unlike anything […]
Say they won’t accept paddy with even the slightest deviation from the norms. Ruchika Khanna / Tribune News Service The rejection of rice samples shipped from Punjab to several states has triggered fear psychosis among rice millers over milling of this year’s paddy, thus affecting the procurement once again. “Forced” by the state government to […]
The event was organised by the International Commodity Institute (ICI) and The Rice Trader (TRT) from the US. The Phnom Penh Post Cambodian fragrant rice has been selected once again as the “World’s Best Rice” at the 2024 International World Rice Conference in Manila, Philippines on November 7. This marks the sixth time the country […]
Evidence on the genetically modified crop is overwhelming: it poses no dangers while offering fantastic life-saving potential. William Reville Vitamin A deficiency (VAD), practically unknown in the western world, has been a deadly public health problem in parts of the world for more than 30 years. VAD, causing blindness and death, is common in countries […]
