The largest expense for rice farming after labor is typically the purchase of fertilizers. Fertilizer prices have...
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Can organic agriculture feed Asia? What next for Sri Lanka? Is intensive farming sustainable? Thai rice industry...
The publication in 2005 of the rice genome—the sum total of genetic information in the rice plant,...
Even before the dramatic price spike in early 2008, rice prices on the world market increased every...
It’s easy to think of rice as a commodity that sells itself. Demand is growing faster than...
World market rice prices tripled between April 2007 and April 2008, with most of the increase coming...
“Farmers are getting older and older. When they are gone, who will produce the food? Few farmers...
Percentage of households buying rice, at any time of the year 2007, in communes of Madagascar. Rice...
“Everyone to the farm,” is the new decree of President Wade of Senegal—a country that has seen...
