MANILA, Philippines - Higher prices of fragrant rice varieties and strong demand, coupled with exchange rate adjustments, ...

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From a pedigree analysis, we selected 30 cultivars including the “miracle rice” IR8, a GR landmark ... Notably, knockout lines have significant changes in plant height (P < 0.003), a key GR trait, ...

The Indo-US agricultural trade has experienced significant changes and steady growth in the last two decades, signalling ...

Field officers of the state agriculture department say that farmers are apprehensive that the advancing sowing period may ...

Leftover rice is one of those things that we always seem to have in the fridge, and that we never find a use for. Unless ...

In a major boost to sustainable farming and rural development in Jammu and Kashmir, the Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare and Rural Development, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Saturday ...

The scientists said they initially suspected that the rice plants in Laguna were infected with tungro or orange leaf disease, but further tests confirmed a co-infection of Rice Grassy Stunt Virus ...

A former professional baseball player for the Hanshin Tigers and native of Yosano in Kyoto Prefecture recently returned to his roots -- this time in a rice field. Yoshio Itoi, whose physical prowess ...

The ERECTA family of receptors (ERfs), encoding leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinases (LRR-RLKs), can regulate multiple aspects of plant development and abiotic stress responses. The rice (Oryza ...

The government is considering making registration of export contracts mandatory with its agri-export promotion body APEDA for non-Basmati rice before shipments are allowed by the Customs Department.