DHAKA: Bangladesh has issued a tender to import 100,000 tonnes of non-basmati parboiled rice by November to meet possible emergency post-monsoon demand, food officials said on Saturday. The country s annual wheat demand is 3.5 million tonnes and it covers the shortfall through government and private sector imports and foreign grants. The shipment should be within 30 days from the date of signing of the contract, they said. Editor-in-Chief: Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman. The tender will close on Aug...

Along the frigid spine of the Andes, men and women in bare feet uproot tubers of multiple shapes and colors - yellow, red, blue, purple, violet, pink with yellow spots, yellow with pink spots; round, oblong, twisted, hooked at the end like walking canes or spiraled like spinning tops. Along the frigid spine of the Andes, men and women in bare feet uproot tubers of multiple shapes and colors - yellow, red, blue, purple, violet, pink with yellow spots, yellow with pink spots; round, oblong,...

More images GETTYSBURG - Farmers have been growing apples here since before the Civil War, and as times have changed, they have changed with them, planting smaller trees to speed up harvests and growing popular new varieties to satisfy changing tastes. Rice's family today owns 1,000 acres of orchards and packs and markets apples for 50 area growers primarily in Pennsylvania's historic growing area in Adams County, on the Maryland border. But the growers who have made this mountainous...

By JULIUS BARIGABA Special Correspondent Rwanda and Burundi, the new East African Community members, have been given up to 2009 to harmonise their trade institutions with those of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania and comply fully with the requirements of the East African Customs Union. By JULIUS BARIGABA Special Correspondent Rwanda and Burundi, the new East African Community members, have been given up to 2009 to harmonise their trade institutions with those of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania and...

Along the frigid spine of the Andes, men and women in bare feet uproot tubers of multiple shapes and colors - yellow, red, blue, purple, violet, pink with yellow spots, yellow with pink spots; round, oblong, twisted, hooked at the end like walking canes or spiraled like spinning tops. Along the frigid spine of the Andes, men and women in bare feet uproot tubers of multiple shapes and colors - yellow, red, blue, purple, violet, pink with yellow spots, yellow with pink spots; round, oblong,...

NEW DELHI (AFP) - As India struggles to deal with stagnation in its crucial agricultural sector, small-scale organic farming initiatives near the capital are providing clues on how to reap healthy profits from the land. Growth has clocked in at a mere two percent -- far behind the wider figure of nine percent -- leading the government to wager six billion dollars in a push for large-scale, industrial farms. Many farmers in India, where more than 70 percent of the people depend on the land,...