MORE the foodgrain, less the space to store them. Fihding itself in such a piquant situation, the Food Corporation of India (FU), has embarked on an ambitious Rs 10 billion project to suitably

Scientists at the Cuttack-based Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI) have developed a high yielding variety of rice called Lunishree that requires the minimal use of fertilisers, has a high

FLOODED-PRONE regions of Bangladesh, China and North India could benefit from the discovery of a new improved variety of deep water rice. Scientists at the international rice research instutute

An Indian scientists has challenged the estimates of methane a greenhouse gas produced from paddy fields

A rice hybrid developed in India can help reap an extra Rs 2,500 per ha

Japan will import Indian rice only if it is free from harmful chemical residues

An Asian staple for over a millennium, rice has become important enough for the North to start raiding and patenting strains

YEARS of government protection and a ban on imports had so far insulated Japanese rice farmers from foreign competition. Now, however, they face double trouble -- emergency imports of foreign rice by