In the past month, The Nature Conservancy of California implemented a new rescue program called BirdReturns where donors put up money to pay farmers to flood their rice fields early with well water, starting last week, and to leave them flooded into April next year, well past when they are usually drained.
Increased demand for alternative staples may enable the Philippines to become sufficient in rice sooner than expected, an Agriculture official said over the weekend.
The prizes will be awarded at the United Nations Climate Summit next Sept. 23 in New York City.
Wild rice is a natural crop in northwestern Ontario and Manitoba.
Prices of rice have increased by around Tk 2 a kilogram in last one week in Dhaka city.
Scholarship prizes total $8,500.
Besides automation, the rice millers in state are also looking at technology upgradation that will bring efficiency in sorting with colour sorting machinery, improved quality for polishing and whitening of rice.
It’s mid-season here in Soc Trang Province, Vietnam. The fields are full, and under an easy monsoon wind, the crop rolls like massive emerald sheets.
Until a few years ago, no one would have considered exporting much rice to China, but that’s changing.
India should focus on production of indigenous aromatic rice varieties so that export avenues open up, an expert with the Philippine-based International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) said.
