RAJSHAHI, Apr 15: Transplanted boro and Irri rice, mango and maize cultivation in the region may be badly affected due to drought there being no rain for about a month in Rajshahi. Drought may affect rice, mango cultivation in Rajshahi this year. The farmers of Barind region said, there being no rainfall for the last one month, the green mangoes are withering, the maize plants are drying up, the seeds of the boro rice are not getting matured. As the sheaf of the boro rice plants are...

An undisclosed biotechnology firm had asked the board for permission to plant its genetically modified rice in Fresno County, but the board ordered that the rice be planted only in Imperial County, and required that the crop be harvested with a dedicated set of farm equipment, among other restrictions. In a compromise on an issue that has riled the nation's rice farmers, a state panel on Wednesday authorized an outdoor test planting of biotech rice but restricted it to a site hundreds of...

Guyana is threatening legal action against its Caricom member states which routinely breach a five year pact on production, export and import of the commodity. Several regional countries routinely ignore the requirement, a Caricom-based trade body has found, or, at best, provide only partial data while sidestepping application for the 25 per cent common external tariff (CET) on imported rice. Vincent and the Grenadines to explain the non-submission of data on their individual rice imports....

Senior officials and scientists of the Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development (IAARD), and other agencies of the Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture, signed the three-year agreement with the Philippines-based International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) on March 23 in Jakarta. Efforts by Indonesia to avoid food shortages by increasing its rice production have received an important boost with the signing of a new agreement to help the nation's millions of poor rice...

WARDA, others collaborate on Africa's rice development Lagos, Nigeria 04/09 - The Africa Rice Centre (WARDA) has entered into strategic partnership with other research institutes to create a strong synergy for rice research on the continent, the centre said in a statement made available to PANA in Lagos Sunday. First page.Politics.Economy.Social.Sport.Culture.Africa.International.Specials. WARDA, others collaborate on Africa's rice development Lagos, Nigeria 04/09 - The Africa Rice Centre...

The decision comes after a 1,200 MT consignment of rice was seized by Rosselkhoznadzor officials at the port of Novorossiisk because the rice contained dead grain pests. Thailand doesn't have a system to monitor the presence of residual dangerous substances in export rice, Russian officials said, although the country had the possibility of carrying out such tests. At the time Rosselkhoznadzor officials visited Thailand, and it was discovered the local standards of food safety control...