By Kate Abnett. BRUSSELS, May 20 (Reuters) – The European Union’s agriculture sector loses an average of 28.3 billion euros ($31.9 billion) each year from extreme weather made worse by climate change, EU-backed analysis published on Tuesday showed. Most of these losses – which are equivalent to 6% of annual EU crop and livestock production […]
Rice and other agricultural crops have become one focus of tariff negotiations between Japan and the United States, but Japan is already a major importer of US crops. Japan has faced criticism from the United States for high tariffs on rice. However, under its “minimum access” (MA) system, it allows annual tariff-free imports of rice […]
By John Perkins. The USDA is projecting larger cotton and rice stocks in the coming marketing year. New crop rice ending stocks are seen at 47.5 million hundredweight, with increased imports and decreased exports canceling out a decline in production, while old crop stocks were up slightly from April to 45 million hundredweight on demand […]
Punjab grows rice on over 32 lakh hectares (64 per cent of the state’s total geographical area). However, a study by Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana, reveals a contrasting reality: no more than 30 per cent of the state’s geographical area (15.28 lakh hectares) is suitable for intensive crops like rice, suggesting the state needs […]
Local communities say they’re already experiencing harm from the government-backed project, which environmental watchdogs say is the largest current planned deforestation operation in the world. Jakarta: Indonesia plans to clear forests about the size of Belgium to produce sugarcane-derived bioethanol, rice and other food crops, potentially displacing Indigenous groups who rely on the land to […]
Farmers in Cà Mau Province are achieving higher profits by rotating rice with short-term crops, thus conserving water during the dry season. CÀ MAU – Farmers in Cà Mau Province are achieving higher profits by rotating rice with short-term crops, thus conserving water during the dry season. The country’s southernmost province primarily relies on groundwater […]
Jay Allen. It’s getting more expensive to eat rice in Japan, with prices nearly doubling. Will a release of strategic reserves help? Those of us living in Japan are watching as the price of everything seems to go up month after month. The latest price spike, however, is really hitting home. Rice, a staple of […]
New Scientist unveils in its recent article that researchers have developed a new variety of rice through traditional crossbreeding techniques that could significantly reduce the crop’s methane emissions. A new rice variety developed through basic crossbreeding techniques has the potential to cut methane emissions from rice cultivation by nearly 75 per cent. Rice farming is […]
Dr Solomon Gyan Ansah, the Director of Crop Services, the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has called for the need to improve local rice production in the West Africa sub-region. He said the knowledge of farmers and experts and stakeholders in the rice value chain ought to be enhanced to add value to local […]
The country’s floriculture industry has grown into a high-performing sector, earning its status as a ‘sunrise industry’ with a 100% export orientation, according to the Survey. Written by Sandip Das. The survey has noted that growing flowers in rice-based crop sequences gave higher net returns than other intercropping patterns such as rice-soybean, rice-bell pepper, rice-fodder […]
