Climate change impacts hit rice harvests for some farmers Vegetable production on the rise as a more profitable crop Yet farmers say swapping rice for vegetables has challenges RAJSHAHI, Bangladesh, ...

KISHOREGANJ DISTRICT, Bangladesh, May 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Standing in his paddy field in northeast Bangladesh, Shafiqul Islam Talukder holds a handful of empty stalks - all chaff, with ...

Traders attribute the softer market to government-approved rice imports that continued until 30 November, increasing supply and exerting downward pressure on local prices. While Aman farmers initially ...

Paddy seeds of the BRRI-developed variety BRRI dhan-108 have been distributed free of cost among the farmers of Gopalganj. Under the Partner Project, the Gopalganj regional office of the Bangladesh ...

Matiur Rahman has been forced to slash his annual rice cultivation almost by half due to low rainfall and lack of water for irrigation over the past fifteen years. Rahman, 55, from Kurigram district ...

About 15 million farmers in Bangladesh grow just five to six rice varieties, despite the availability of more than 130 different rice varieties, giving rise to an effective monoculture that leaves ...

SHYAMNAGAR, Bangladesh, July 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Farmer Dilip Chandra Tarafdar was tired of fighting to keep his rice crop alive in the Bangladeshi coastal village of Chandipur. If the ...

Government slashes Aman paddy procurement target Parboiled rice goal raised to 600,000 tonnes Procurement prices increased to support farmers Sunned rice target halved this season The government has ...

DHAKA, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Bangladesh began buying 200,000 tonnes of rice and paddy from local farmers on Tuesday to boost emergency food stocks to 3 million tonnes in the fiscal year to June 2009, ...

Thailand's rice prices rose to their highest in more than six months on flood-driven supply worries and expectations of ...

The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) has set a record target of producing 23,08,712 tons of clean Boro rice (34,63,068 tons of paddy) from 5,09,095 hectares of land for Rangpur agriculture ...