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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rice output dips despite record Boro harvest Aush acreage shrinks, Aman hit by floods Hybrid varieties boost yields, expand cultivation area Imports, favourable weather ease price pressures Bangladesh ...

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 ...

Rice isn't grown in the United Kingdom, but this staple of many Asian diets is imported and consumed in Britain every year. The diaspora population in London and across Britain shops for its monthly ...

The expansion of shrimp cultivation has changed the land-use pattern and had a negative effect on the coastal ecosystems of Bangladesh. This study aimed to examine how socioeconomic conditions have ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Bangladeshi rice researchers’ concern over a Bloomberg report about methane emission resulted in the installation of a real-time data-providing GHG ...