Two Haryana government agencies involvement in the procurement of fortified rice kernels (FRK) have raised a red flag citing delays by five companies empanelled by the Haryana food, civil supplies and consumer affairs department in supplying the fortified rice kernels

On the issue of Parboiled rice, Goyal said that the Food Corporation of India had enough stocks to meet the demand for four years and the MoU with the State clearly says that the Food Corporation of India’s purchase of rice for the central pool will depend on the demand in the rest of the country.

China has started importing Indian rice for the first time in at least three decades due to tightening supplies and an offer from India of sharply discounted prices, Indian industry officials told Reuters.

Egypt is a prominent rice market in the North African region with the country’s rice supply being tabulated at 60.9 kg paddy/capita/year. The demand is higher than production which makes the region dependent on rice imports. The government in the country imports rice from China, India, Thailand, and Russia.

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for National Food Security and Research, Fakhar Imam Monday said the country will have “rice exportable surplus of 8.03 million metric tons worth $4.85 billion in fiscal year 2021-22, which can potentially generate the highest growth in the entire export sector”.

Customs data showed that China imported 1.95 billion yuan worth of paddy and rice from Pakistan in the first 10 months of this year, 3.9 times higher than the same period of last year.

Rice export prices in India this week slipped to their lowest since December 2016 as a weaker rupee allowed exporters to cut rates amid climbing local supply from fresh crops.

The prosperity bestowed upon rice, noodles & pasta by pandemic-driven stockpiling is a thing of the past. Combined sales have plummeted £91.4m on volumes down by 2%.

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