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 ...

Satish Kumar sits in front of his submerged rice paddy in India’s Haryana state, looking despairingly at his ruined crops. “I’ve suffered a tremendous loss,” said the third generation ...

HYDERABAD: The decade-long efforts of the Indian Institute of Rice Research (IIRR) to develop varieties of paddy high in nutrition through biofortification have yielded results. The institute has ...