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 ...

Japan’s Shiraso Brewery prides itself on creating ‘uncommon flavours’ and fusing western innovations with the country’s ...

During a field visit to Dinajpur region, it was found that coarse paddy rice, which is milled to produce coarse rice, became dearer in Dinajpur immediately after the peak Aman harvesting season. On ...

Using traditional crossbreeding, researchers have created a new strain of rice that produces much less methane, a potent ...

Enclosed by mesh fences and walls sits a lone rice paddy stretching out across 1,100 ... engineered to combat hay fever associated with Japanese cedar pollen. Hay fever is caused by allergies ...

MADURAI: The retail price of fine varieties of rice, which are being sold at Rs 60 to Rs 70 per kg, may come down by at least 10% over the next few weeks as paddy prices have dropped significantly ...

BHUBANESWAR: A day after Cooperation minister Pradeep Bal Samant urged farmers to lodge FIR in their respective police stations against rice millers who are interfering in the paddy procurement ...

The surface of Japanese rice fish's body has pigment cells that receive a hormone from cells in the pituitary gland and synthesize melanin. Cells in the gland contain the so-called Opn5m receptor ...