India shouldn’t be dumping rice into US market
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President Donald Trump unveiled a multi-billion-dollar farm relief package while sharpening his criticism of agricultural imports from India and other Asian suppliers, telling a White House roundtable that tariffs would be used aggressively to protect American producers.
Mars’ Raising Rice Right platform aims to future-proof rice supply chains, helping farmers adapt to climate change while maintaining crop productivity, following last week’s $20 million investment announcement.
The co-investment, which according to Walmart has already helped rice farmers supplying its Great Value private label brand reduce emissions by over 37,000 metric tons of CO₂e, conserve over 11 billion gallons of water, and return more than $900,000 into farmers, is now being expanded by Kellanova's participation.
Researchers with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station have identified genetic mechanisms in rice that can help counteract the negative effects of higher nighttime temperatures.
Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD), a water-saving irrigation technique, has increased rice production in Bangladesh, according to a recent study. Boro and Aus rice cultivated using the AWD method showed yield increases of 32.
Scientists show that molybdenum nanoparticles sprayed on leaves can suppress toxic cadmium uptake and harmful oxidative stress in rice Cadmium-contaminated soils threaten food safety worldwide, particularly rice safety in Asia.
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Plant biologists win VinFuture Prize for developing self-cloning crops
Venkatesan Sundaresan, a Distinguished Professor of plant biology and plant sciences, and Imtiyaz Khanday, an assistant professor of plant sciences, travelled to Hanoi, Vietnam to receive the prize at a special VinFuture Foundation ceremony Dec.
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PhilRice forms co-op network to increase rice farmers' income
A NATIONAL network of cooperative has been formed to improve the earnings of rice farmers while giving consumers greater confidence in the rice they purchase. Organized by Department of Agriculture-Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA-PhilRice),
JAKARTA, INDONESIA — Corn and rice production in Indonesia is forecast to decline in marketing year 2025-26 despite another year of favorable weather, while wheat imports climb to meet feed and consumer demand, according to a report from the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of the US Department of Agriculture.