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. …
Lowland rice is a carbon sink
Pratap Bhattacharyya, senior scientist at the Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI) in Odisha, along with his team at the institute, says rice …
Solving poverty
Gurdev S Khush is the principal plant breeder in the Plant breeding, genetics and biochemistry division of the International Rice Research …
Is the joyride over ?
There was fear in the 1960s. Would India continue to wait for food imports to feed itself? The scientific community came up with an answer that …
The many ways of GM contamination
Doug Gurian-Sherman, a senior scientist in the food and environment programme at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), is among the most …
Agriculture is egocentric
Norman Uphoff, professor emeritus of government and international agriculture at Cornell University, US, likes to say that the system of rice …
A rice by another name
Thailand threatens to take the US to the WTO for allowing a Texas-based company to use "jasmati" as a trademark for a variety of rice
Dharohar's dividends
Farmers and activists in Bastar reject high-yielding rice varieties to preserve traditional varieties
Was ethanol the reason for the ban on broken rice exports
A look at official data shows that the allocation of Food Corporation of India rice for ethanol was drastically increased in 2021-22, as compared …
Villagers unite to conserve resources
The Academy of Development Sciences has brought tribals in the Konkan region of Maharashtra together to make efficient use of scarce resources.
Why Bangladesh sees golden rice as a threat
Following announcement by agriculture minister on cultivating golden rice within 3 months, farmers and environment groups call take out country-…
Agriculture is linked with malaria in complex ways: evidence from 16 African countries
This is worrying because, currently, three branches of development are trying to achieve their goals in isolation
Study paves the way for new approach to boost rice yield
The new development represents a new approach towards developing rice varieties that produce bigger and consequently heavier grains
Rice goes against the grain
An Asian staple for over a millennium, rice has become important enough for the North to start raiding and patenting strains
Do you need to wash rice before cooking? Here’s the science
Washing process has been shown to rinse up to 20% of the microplastics from uncooked rice
Basmati rice: the new authenticity rules aiming to remove sub-standard varieties from the market
If we don’t maintain today’s standards, it may harm the industry — and crucially the farmers who work so hard to produce this …
Rice politics ignores Asian socio-cultural base
Rice Science and Development Politics Robert S Anderson, Edwin Levy and Barrie M Morrison Publisher: Oxford University Press, New Delhi Price: …
Ours and theirs
An American company appropriates the name 'basmati' as its own, and the contentious issue of patents and protection comes to the fore once again
Looks like Basmati but
India is losing the pride of many a pulao -- the aroma and taste of basmati rice. What are scientists and legal experts fighting about?
Pantabhat - well slept rice
Rice has been a staple food of West Bengal from antiquity and thus was grown in abundance all across the region. At one time, 60 varieties of …
Indigenous appeal
Farmers in West Bengal are going back to indigenous rice varieties, with a little encouragement
Vindaloo with a punch
FISH CURRY AND RICE: A CITIZENS' REPORT ON THE GOAN ENVIRONMENT Publisher: Ecoforum, Goa Price: Rs 200
Rice bowls shall brim
A new and healthier version of rice promises to produce and provide more for Asia's teeming millions
Arice and fight
Two new proposed Indian legislations will please the World Trade Organisation. But will they protect the rights of Indian farmers over the …
Has low paddy acreage caused Centre’s U-turn on Telangana parboiled rice procurement
Telangana government and the Centre had been at loggerheads over its procurement for almost a year; now Centre has agreed to procure 0.…
