Rice production is critical to food security worldwide. However, the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae (M. oryzae) causes destructive disease and huge yield loss worldwide. Exploiting and breeding rice with broad-spectrum resistance to rice blast is therefore of great value for ensuring global food production.

A team of global researchers that includes Ted Wilson, director of the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Beaumont, have studied rice yield gap and resource-use efficiency across

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An international group of scientists has made a global assessment of rice-cropping systems in search of opportunities to improve rice production. Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the global population. Although the demand for rice is expected to grow, its production is challenged by factors like climate change, energy shortages and resource degradation.

India’s rice exports is expected to surpass its previous year’s record of 17 million tonnes amid dispatches to newer markets. The world’s largest rice exporter sold over 11.79 million tonnes of the foodgrain in overseas markets during April-October in the ongoing financial year, according to government data. That’s a 33% increase over the same period in the preceding year, and includes basmati and non-basmati variants.

Dec 16 (Reuters) – Export prices for rice from Vietnam hit their lowest level in more than three months due to weak demand, while rates in other Asian hubs held steady this week. Rates for Vietnam’s 5% broken rice variety slipped to $400-$410 per tonne, the lowest since Sept. 9, from $410-$414 per tonne last week.

As many as 400 rice mill owners in Punjab, whose mills have been lying shut for the past 11 years due to their inability to return prescribed rice from substandard paddy variety given to them for milling by the government, have decided to launch an ‘agitation’.

All white rice starts out as brown rice before it is polished. All unpolished rice is nowadays sold under the term brown rice,” nutritionist Bhuvan Rastogi said. There is often a debate around the numerous health benefits of brown rice as compared to the white grained variety. But is one type actually healthier than the other, or it is just a fad?

Commerce Advisor Abdul Razak Dawood has sought Prime Minister’s intervention to enhance rice quota allocation to China due to bumper crop, official sources told Business Recorder.

The country’s rice imports in January to November have expanded by more than 25 percent to 2.5 million metric tons (MMT) from 1.98 MMT a year ago, latest Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) data showed.