Straw can generate power, if available

Futures trading in rice, wheat

It could help the Indian farmer manage risks better. If it works

Weak gene

New rice varieties flourish in deep waters

New varieties of rice that can be grown in flood-hit areas are producing higher yields. Combined with other crops, they can give the farmer a …

UNITED NATIONS

Grain gain or drain?

Vitaminimum

Reaping a double benefit

Two rice crops annually in semi-arid tropic regions good for soil fertility, claims study

Rice of health

Irregularities galore in Bt trials

Coming soon: more entrants into basmati family

Rice remedy

Llama antibody makes rice a weapon against rotavirus

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 …

Erratic weather hits Bangladesh's boro rice

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?

"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 …

Pests ruin paddy on 89,000 ha

Farmers destroy DuPont’s GM rice

Demand Karnataka be declared a transgenic-free state

Russia bans rice imports from India claiming pesticide contamination