Treasure and the tricks

Conserving genetic purity of 750 varieties of rice with limited resources like a small piece of land and no workforce is a major challenge. Debal …

Arsenic eyes rice nutrients

The heavy metal can disrupt amino acid synthesis in the grain

Big size, bigger benefits

Brown rice of shorter size accumulates more arsenic

High carbon in paddy fields questions India's methane emission levels

Who will grow food?

Paddy cultivation reduces global warming

Farm pacts

African rice genome decoded

The genetic information allows creating varieties more resistant to environmental challenges and having higher yields to fight global food challenge

Rice genome decoded

Will poor farmers benefit from rice progress?

Irrigation can't stave off global warming

No lesser evil

But where's the data?

India bans export of non-basmati rice

Sumptuous slumber

India sleeps tight while a US company acquires a patent over three rice strains

Patented to act

Basmati embroglio -- stoked to cook

New crop scheme for Punjab farmers

Ban on futures trading to go

Pesticide causes blindness in fish in Punjab

Climate change hits food production

Global warming has resulted in 20 per cent increase in price of wheat, maize, rice and soybean

Golden dream

Rice variety to fight vitamin A deficiency

Best way to check arsenic residues in rice

Pesticide guard

Plant hormone can protect rice from toxic effects of chemicals

Poor soil, global warming

The downside of using combine harvesters

Organic drive in Uttaranchal ignores farmers' concerns

Rice fields as carbon sinks

A study by Indian scientists finds lowland flooded rice ecosystems can store vast amounts of carbon but the jury is still out on whether these …