Govt looking for way to make use of rotten rice. Costs of rice-made ethanol may be too high -association. Ethanol would need govt support to offset costs -association.
The government has chalked out plans to promote the cultivation of four special traditional rice varieties in the State that have been included in the Geographical Indications (GI) registry of India.
An international team of scientists led by the UA has sequenced the genome of African rice.
Following the Geographical Indication (GI) tag, Palakkadan Matta rice from North Kerala has started going the mobile app-based retailing way.
Rice production in Thailand will probably shrink to a five-year low as drought hurts yields and farmers curb planting after the end of a subsidy program, according to the Thai Rice Packers Association.
Vietnam unfortunately sold much of its rice before the global rice market began recovering, with export prices increasing by $10 per ton.
Based on this accumulated cultivation data, and with the support of agricultural producers, Asahi Shuzo aims to establish stable cultivation technology, while providing cultivation know-how to new producers just starting production of Yamada Nishiki, thereby enhancing initiatives to increase the production of this variety of rice.
Building homes using mud and straw is seeing a resurgence in rural Australia.
The monsoon rains have come late to northern India. In the past, that would have meant certain hardship. But this year, farmers here aren’t worried, thanks to new drought-resistant strains of rice that are helping sow prosperity across India’s grain belt.
From 2011 to 2014, the International Rice Research Institute said the country posted the highest growth in yield with the average yield hitting three to four metric tons per hectare last year.
