In court

Grain glut

India faces a surplus of foodgrains. Is exporting a good option?

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

Cola and the paddy farmer

Whose water is it, anyway?

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

Who will grow food?

Trouble in store

Paddy cultivation reduces global warming

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Finance minister announces Rs 1.7 lakh crore relief package

Rice yields could plummet 40% by 2100 due to climate change: Stanford University

At least 2 billion people, especially in Asia, could be affected due to the scarcity

Simply put: Temperature shift confuses farmers

Farm pacts

South Asia

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

Farmers on holiday

Andhra farmers shun growing paddy this kharif in absence of buyers, storage space

The GM snare

Impact of stalled monsoon: 30-45% decline in sowing of kharif crops in June

Cotton, oilseeds, pulses and coarse cereals are among the worst-hit crops

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