The National Food Authority (NFA) said its procurement of paddy rice jumped more than eightfold in January due to its “competitive buying prices.” The NFA said it procured 282,033 50-kilo bags or ...

The rice paddy itself requires a large part of that maintenance. It is flooded with water that must be kept at a constant level, just below the height that would keep rice seedlings from growing ...

In the 2024 procurement season, Punjab’s agencies procured 177 lakh tonnes of paddy, expecting an OTR of 119 lakh tonnes of rice. However, millers reported yields as low as 62-63%, citing hybrid ...

"Farmers have ultimately brought 5,09,056 hectares of land under Boro rice cultivation, exceeding the fixed target by 78 hectares, or 0.02 percent," said Agriculturist Md Afzal Hossain.

“Rice farming is a fundamental part of our culture in Japan. Niigata prefecture has one of the biggest areas of paddy fields in the country.” But decades of Koshihikari rice farming in the ...