Adding animal diversity to rice paddy farms reduces weed pressure, increases food production, and makes fertilizer use more efficient, according to a study published late last month in the journal eLife.

Prices of rice exported from top Asian hubs jumped this week on solid demand, while Vietnamese traders also flagged high shipping costs due to the Ukraine crisis.

Cambodia recorded an increase in this year’s rice exports for January and February compared to the same period in the previous year. This is according to a statement from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries released to local news in March 14.

A new rice grain variety is set to revolutionize crop production, increasing by almost double per acre. The hybrid variety which is high yielding, early maturing and disease resistant is capable of yielding up to 54 bags of paddy rice as compared to a maximum of 30 bags of the basmati crop.

Karimanagr task force sleuths busted a Public Distribution System (PDS) rice illegal sale racket and arrested three persons on Sunday.

The police arrested two persons and seized seven tonnes of PDS rice and two luggage vans carrying the load on the outskirts of Gudupalle, close to Karnataka border, in the early hours of Sunday.

The retail prices of various varieties of rice have been increased by up to Rs40 per kilo almost a month before Ramazan.

The Civil Supplies CID personnel have seized 500 kg of rice meant for public distribution system in Thanjavur Corporation limits from a middleman.

Rice exports from the country during first 07 months of current financial year increased by 11.16% as compared to exports of the corresponding period of last year.

Shivaji University Kolhapur (SUK) will soon make a record of releasing two new varieties of non-basmati aromatic rice. Genetically improved mutants of Ajara Ghansal and Kala Jirga, two famous rice varieties have been researched by the researchers from the Botany department of SUK that can overcome the deficiency which earlier traditional ones had.