Philippines – Colored rice
Growing organic rice in shades of black, red, pink, and brown can be profitable.
Diabetics, rejoice: We now have a super low GI rice variety
The newly identified line of rice is high yielding and has low GI with no change in its taste and palatability.
India – Wayanad farmers get rights for 10 traditional rice varieties
espite a looming agrarian crisis, farmers in Wayanad have become the guardians of critical agro-biodiversity by nurturing traditional rice varieties which are fast becoming extinct.
Ghana – Ghana to step up rice production
The strategies include the promotion of three varieties of rice, which are comparable in terms of quality with the imported ones.
USA – Rice farmers see better-than-usual second crop
South Louisiana rice farmers wrapped up their rice-growing season with an excellent second crop harvest.
India – Decoding Poverty: Nabarangpur produces enough rice for itself and more
Source: The Indian Express 26/11/2015 – Lebo Randhari sold 56 quintals of paddy from his four-acre field at Gobardhanguda in Nabarangpur’s Kosagumuda block last year, fetching him Rs 76,160 at the government’s minimum support price (MSP) of Rs 1,360 per quintal. This farmer from the adivasi Bhatra community is a beneficiary of probably the only…
Guyana – GRDB: Rice millers receive over $660M for rice supplied to Panama
GRDB said it has been working closely with all stakeholders to address the ongoing challenges farmers face in receiving early payment from millers for paddy sold.
Paddy-whacked
By meddling in the market for rice, Asian governments make their own citizens poorer.
USA – New UD study looks at adding rice residue to lower arsenic, improve crop yields
A new study by University of Delaware researchers considers how adding silica-rich rice residue — such as husks, straw and the ash of those materials — to improve crop yields and decrease arsenic uptake may affect the soils in which rice plants are grown.
Hare-grained
Subsidies and other protections for rice farmers harm some of the world’s poorest people.