New automatic rice mills will now need a no-objection certificate as the government seeks to spread them more evenly across ...

Rice prices have seen an abnormal increase recently in Bangladesh, despite higher yields and an adequate supply. Even a sharp ...

The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) has set a record target of producing 23,08,712 tons of clean Boro rice ...

KISHOREGANJ DISTRICT, Bangladesh (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Standing in his paddy field in northeast Bangladesh, Shafiqul Islam Talukder holds a handful of empty stalks - all chaff, with no rice ...

Two decades ago, most seeds in Bangladesh came from farmers’ own reserves or the state-run Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC). Today, that picture has changed dramatically ...

DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh will buy 100,000 tonnes of rice from Myanmar, putting aside a rift over the Rohingya refugee crisis as the government races to overcome a shortage of the staple food for ...

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, ...

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 ...

Indian rice export prices fell this week despite robust demand as the rupee hit a record low, while widespread flooding laid waste to crops in Bangladesh. June 23 (Reuters) - Indian rice export prices ...

Oct 27 (Reuters) - Prices of rice from top exporter India edged up this week on an uptick in the rupee and supply concerns, while a cyclone destroyed crops in Bangladesh at a time when it was already ...