Rice production

On July 20th, India announced that it would restrict exports of non-basmati rice to calm domestic rice prices that had risen more than 30 per cent since October 2022. The ban would halt overseas sales of the grain with…

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Rice production

Rice is the main food staple for more than half of the global population, and as the population grows, demand for rice is expected to grow, too. The challenge is producing more rice on existing cropland, and doing so…

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Rice production

Rice cultivation bears the risk of contamination with arsenic, which can get into the rice grains via the plant’s roots. In tests of more than 4,000 rice varieties, a German-Chinese research consortium has now discovered…

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Rice production

Small farmers in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria and Tanzania are being supported in boosting their rice harvests, improving product quality and raising their incomes. Through the Competitive African Rice Initiative…

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Rice production

Rice production contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. A new initiative aims to make rice production more sustainable, targeting change in farming techniques through policy and market incentives.

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Rice production

A team of Chinese and German researchers reveals a mechanism by which nitrate in the soil activates both phosphate and nitrate utilisation in rice.

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Although Vietnam is one of the world’s biggest rice producers and exporters, the productivity growth of its rice sector has reached a plateau since 2010. There is an urgent need to restructure the sector towards…

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Soils

The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) is a natural resource management technology that has supporters and opponents. Evidence of the technology’s impacts is mixed. Recent research results from Timor Leste suggest that…

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Rural development

As food import dependency has grown, many African countries have attempted to boost local agricultural production. With rice production increasing in Senegal, organisations are progressively upgrading rice value chains…

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Rice production

Laos has achieved a minor miracle. For some years now, this Southeast Asian country has been able to feed its people with rice that is exclusively grown locally. However, the success story is under threat.

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