With the scheme supplying more than 60 per cent of the country’s rice, farmers argued that the government should prioritise local rice. KENYA – Rice farmers from the Mwea Irrigation Scheme in Kirinyaga County are advocating for the establishment of a national rice council to advise the government on policies and enhance farmer welfare. The […]
Global rice markets are bracing for turbulence after reports that India, the world’s largest rice exporter, is preparing to release around 20 million tonnes of stockpiled rice in September. The move is aimed at clearing storage space for the new harvest season, with the government planning to purchase fresh crops from local farmers. According to […]
Source: Down To Earth Kenya has announced plans to import half a million tonnes of rice duty-free, mostly from India and Pakistan, to address what it calls an imminent shortage. But the decision has sparked outrage among local farmers, who insist they are already sitting on unsold stocks from recent good harvests and warn that […]
Author: Gusty Da CostaEditor: Imanuddin Razak The Ministry of Agriculture, the National Food Agency (BPN), and the State Logistics Agency (Bulog) have launched coordinated strategic measures to address rising rice prices and ensure national food security. These measures were outlined during a hearing with agriculture and forestry Commission IV of the House of Representatives (DPR) […]
The three-year project seeks to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, particularly methane, from rice cultivation. NIGERIA – The German government has launched the Carbon Offsetting Rice Emissions (CORE) Project, a €2.5 million (US$2.9M) initiative aimed at supporting 12,000 smallholder farmers in Benue, Nasarawa, and Kano states to adopt climate-smart rice farming practices. The three-year project, […]
Ghana is importing rice despite milled rice production being forecasted to reach 900,000 metric tons this season. GHANA – Ghana is projected to import one million metric tons of rice for the 2025/2026 season, accounting for more than half of the country’s total rice demand, according to the latest annual Grain and Feed report from […]
Market analysts and consumers call the trend ‘abnormal,’ blaming syndicates, with many seeing the government as helpless. Shafiqul Islam Rice prices in Bangladesh have been climbing for several days across all varieties—coarse, medium, and fine grains—despite repeated government assurances of sufficient production and supply. Currently, coarse rice that was selling at Tk50–54 per kilogram is […]
Leticia PINEDA AFP Outside Havana, a combine belonging to a private Vietnamese company is harvesting rice, directly farming Cuban land — in a first — to help address acute food shortages in the country. The Cuban government has granted Agri VAM, a subsidiary of Vietnam’s Fujinuco Group, 1,000 hectares (2,470 acres) of arable land in […]
Recorder Report LAHORE: The Punjab government has addressed the fluctuations in production of rice through a better understanding of supply and demand factors, with this year’s rice sowing anticipated to expand to 70,000 acres, representing a robust increase that supports national food security and export potential. This was highlighted during a meeting of the Agriculture […]
Sukanta Halder Apparently for floods, data inconsistencies. Bangladesh’s rice imports surged to a seven-year high in the last fiscal year (FY25) of 2024-25, driven by a shortfall in domestic production, according to official data. Public and private importers brought in 14.36 lakh tonnes of rice last fiscal year, the highest since FY18, when Bangladesh imported […]
