Pakistan’s hybrid rice production has only increased over the years. While this has increased profitability of the rice growers, exporters have not benefited much. The country’s rice exports actually declined.

The rice exporters urged to government to urgently address the availability and price of freight logistics resulting in carryover of stocks.

Early variety of Basmati rice, PUSA 1509, has arrived in grain markets of Punjab and farmers are getting comparatively better prices during the opening days as compared to last year when the prices crashed by Rs 600 to Rs 1,000 per quintal.

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan was told on Friday that a total increase of $30 billion was possible in the current volume of country’s exports. He was informed that in

ISLAMABAD: The prices of food items including sugar and rice went down during the week ending on September 9, as compared to the previous week, the Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI)

Currency drops to 13-month low of 166.98 to a dollar in inter-bank market

The year 2020-21 has seen India’s economy suffer terribly, with its largest ever contraction in GDP of 7.3 percent. However, it has grown by 20.1 percent during the April-June quarter

Global cereal production in 2021 is forecast to reach 2 788 million tonnes, up by 0.7 percent from the year before but below July’s expectations, according to FAO’s new Cereal Supply and Demand Brief, also released today.

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s government has started seizing stocks of sugar and rice from warehouses and will release them on the open market at regulated prices from Thursday as part of

Arrival of paddy in the mandis of the northern districts of Haryana has begun with harvesting of the early varieties has started.