In Dhaka’s retail kitchen markets, Miniket rice is now being sold at Tk80–82 per kg, up from Tk72–74 before Eid ...

It is a double whammy for the JVP; both rice consumers and paddy farmers are demanding that their competing interests be addressed. Rice growers are threatening to march on Colombo and stage what they ...

Thennakon urged the government to take immediate action, calling for the revocation of licenses of paddy mill owners supplying rice for alcohol production. He highlighted that farmers receiving ...

Vice President and General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party, Bharrat Jagdeo, has assured rice farmers in Region Two that steps will be taken to assist them with the struggle to find ...

The rice paddy itself requires a large part of that maintenance. It is flooded with water that must be kept at a constant level, just below the height that would keep rice seedlings from growing ...