Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas – The Philippine Star Workers unload sacks of rice from a delivery truck along Dagupan Street in Tondo, Manila on January 22, 2024. MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Agriculture (DA) is pushing for the restoration of its powers to register, monitor and visit rice warehouses and retailers to boost its surveillance […]
Rice is the staple crop of more than half of the world’s population. Demand is growing with the rising population in South and Southeast Asia. However, a significant portion of rice farming still relies on traditional cultivation methods that lead to substantial methane emissions, which are a major contributor to climate change — methane is […]
Alternate wetting and drying can help reduce emissions and save water in rice cultivation. Age old methods of rice cultivation can be modified slightly to reduce emissions from cultivation. ASingapore-based startup is helping Southeast Asian farmers reduce methane emissions from rice cultivation. The crop that feeds nearly half of the world’s population has a large […]
Home Affairs Minister Tito Karnavian at a coordination meeting on regional inflation control in Jakarta on Monday (July 15, 2024). (ANTARA/HO-Puspen Kemendagri) Jakarta (ANTARA) – Home Affairs Minister Tito Karnavian has urged regional governments to raise rice production to bolster national food security. “Specifically today, our attention is on the rice issue. Rice (prices), that […]
Nigeria’s information minister said this is the first step as the government takes steps to address food shortages in the country. By Lanre Lasisi FILE: Bags of grains are offloaded from a truck at the market in Jibia on February 18, 2024. (Photo by Kola Sulaimon / AFP) The Federal Government has distributed 20 trucks […]
Louella Desiderio – The Philippine Star Tons of imported rice are hauled at a port in Manila. MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Department of Agriculture (DA) are conducting a nationwide price monitoring to assess the impact of the tariff reduction on rice imports on the supply chain. In […]
Copyright Canva Agri-tech startup Rize is helping rice farmers In Southeast Asia to reduce their methane emissions, while giving their businesses a boost. Rice feeds nearly half the world’s population, but the way we grow it has left a surprisingly high methane footprint. Of the 42 per cent of global methane emissions that agriculture accounts […]
Rice farming in the Western Division is set to thrive with the opening of a new mill in Ba today. Fiji Rice Pte Limited Chair Raj Sharma says there are 600 registered rice farmers across Fiji, with only 100 from the West. Sharma says research shows that some rice variety can be grown in dry […]
By Asmadee Bueheng In the lush landscape of Thailand’s Deep South, a quiet revolution is brewing. A network of farmers and activists is breathing new life into abandoned rice fields – and preserving local culture as they go along. The grassroots movement is encouraging young people to return to their forgotten family fields, build granaries […]
PRICEWATCH Rice prices in this stall at the Marikina City public market on Feb. 15 range from P45 a kilo, the cheapest variety of well-milled rice, to P70 a kilo for the “fancy” red rice. Keeping food, especially rice, affordable to ordinary wage earners is among the major challenges faced by the Marcos administration. —GRIG […]
