Towards wetland conservation

The Union environment ministry has been working for the past four years to create a regulatory framework to protect the country’s wetlands. …

Coming soon: more entrants into basmati family

Breach of trust

The world’s premier rice research institute tilts towards intellectual property rights

Rice remedy

Llama antibody makes rice a weapon against rotavirus

Erratic weather hits Bangladesh's boro rice

Spotted rice gets clean chit

The fate of 400,000 tonnes of rice hung in balance for more than a year

Arsenic: Lurking in the shadows across Ganga, Brahmaputra basins

As the geography of arsenic contamination spreads, there is an urgent need for governments to reorient mitigation measures. That’s because …

Black beauty

Black rice is drought resistant and has rich medicinal properties. Manipur and Assam are reviving this variety

Genetic engineering

Promising initial tests of new rice strains with high potential for farmers have spurred biotechnologists to press ahead with the search for …

Indian firm finds new way to create GM hybrids

Rice -- the staple food of 65 per cent of India's population -- is in for a revolution. An Indian firm has developed a technique to develop …

Orissa faces acute food insecurity

It is well known that farmers of Orissa are not the 'privileged ones'. What is not known, albeit, is the fact that their plight is all set to …

Why is Telangana asking the Centre to procure its excess stock of parboiled rice?

The Telangana government is asking the Centre to buy more than 90 per cent of its stock of parboiled rice at Minimum Support Price, some of which …

Another problem with China's coal: Mercury in rice

A study finds that coal pollution in China is leading to people getting significant levels of mercury poisoning from …

Tinkering with root hair may help boost crop yields

Researchers are exploring mechanisms adopted by plants to survive in low phosphate soils to figure out if they can enhance survival in poor water …

FSSAI sets standards for basmati rice; to be enforced from August

The move could increase exports of this fragrant rice of India

Sweet and sticky

Easy-to-digest saathi rice is a good choice for making kheer and khichdi

Wetlands in danger

Kerala government plans to dilute strict legislation in the name of plugging loopholes

Burdened with bumper crop

Faulty procurement, rising farm inputs force West Bengal farmers to commit suicide

Tidy gains

Rice millers to tap CDM

Ploughing on in Punjab

How successful will the state's crop deversification scheme be?

Pests ruin paddy on 89,000 ha

Farmers destroy DuPont’s GM rice

Demand Karnataka be declared a transgenic-free state

Ragi is back - but only as exotica

No body knows for sure how the ragi bandwagon started, but all of a sudden the urban elite became curious about the grain. Today, it is being …

"We have to produce more rice using less water"

Robert Zeigler, director general of the Manila, Phillipines-based, International Rice Research Institution (IRRI) talks to Sourav Mishra about …

Russia bans rice imports from India claiming pesticide contamination