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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Ministry of Agriculture yesterday began spraying rice fields in Region Six to address the paddy bug issue, the Department of Public Information (DPI) reported. The paddy bug infestation has ...

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 ...