Innovations ratchet up rice production
Global rice production has increased enormously over the past few decades, improving the world’s food security.
USA – Can cover crops work in a rice rotation?
A report from the 2016 Southern Agricultural Soil Health, Cover Crops and Water Management Conference
Thailand – University in Thailand accepts rice for fees in nation awash with grain
The goal is to help farming families, and the university will put a higher-than-market value on the grain since prices for some strains are near a decade low.
Benin – ‘Smart-Valleys’ bring rice bounty
In just four years, small farmers in Ouinhi, southeastern Benin, have seen their harvest double from three to six tonnes of rice per hectare.
USA – Rice Farmers: Cut Water Use 30%, Lose No Yields
The “alternate wetting and drying” or AWD technique saved an average of $50 a season across fields ranging from 20 to 80 acres.
New Guinea – New rice for ‘Roots’ families
Trukai Industries has developed a new high quality, high affordability rice product
Nigeria – Farmers to make rice affordable by 2017
Goronyo gave the assurance that rice production rate would be doubled in 2017 above the seven million tonnes produced this year.
India – Preserving a rare medicinal rice variety
Unlike other rice varieties, which are white in colour, Navara is deep red and has been cultivated in the Palakkad region for more than 2,000 years.
Mexico – Searching for a new Mexican “rice miracle”
Mexico´s 6,200 rice growers hope that the rice sector can witness a new miracle, which will not come from the Philippines this time, but from the joint efforts of a sector that believes in the future.
Thailand – Direct-sale rice markets spring up in growing areas
Farmers are selling their own rice production directly to consumers.