Sri Lanka will import 200,000 metric tonnes of rice immediately from Pakistan, Myanmar and India to meet a rice shortfall in its domestic market, a statement from the Ministry of Commerce and Industry said here Friday.
ByAPDWriterJamilaHusainCOLOMBO,July7(APD)-SriLankawillimport200,000metrictonnesofriceimmediatelyfromPakistan,MyanmarandIndiatomeetariceshortfallinitsdomesticmar
Rice,oneoftheworld'smajorstaplefoodssustainingmorethanhalfoftheglobalpopulation,wasfirstdomesticatedinChinaabout10,000yearsago,anewstudysuggestedonMonday."Sucha
China has once again broken a Guinness World Record, this time for the most people simultaneously transplanting seedlings, after an attempt in Tonghe, Heilongjiang Province on Monday.
ChinahasonceagainbrokenaGuinnessWorldRecord,thistimeforthemostpeoplesimultaneouslytransplantingseedlings,afteranattemptinTonghe,HeilongjiangProvinceonMonday.Att
TheINSIDERSummary:TheNHSsaysthatleftoverricecanbebadforyou.Uncookedricecancontainsporesthatcansurvivewhenthericeiscooked.Ifthericestandsatroomtemperaturefortool
Thailand'snewKingMahaVajiralongkornattendedanannualplowingceremonyonFridaywheresacredoxenpredictedabountifulharvest,auguringwellfortheworld'ssecondlargestriceex
Nigeria's food safety agency has denied claims by the health minister that it has cleared the reported "plastic" rice.
Indonesia’s drive for food self-sufficiency is costing consumers tens of billions of dollars and has led to the highest rice prices in Southeast Asia
Thailand’s politically powerful rice farmers are becoming the new battleground between the country’s junta and ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, with both trying to woo their support amid concerns of a flashpoint ahead of 2017 elections.
Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen on Monday thanked China for agreeing to double rice import quota, saying the quota increase clearly reflected China's intention to helping Cambodia.
Vietnam's southern Mekong Delta, the largest in the region and known as the country's "rice bowl," is striving to realize agricultural targets set for 2016 amid harsh drought conditions and saline intrusion.
Thirty years ago, crayfish were little more than a nuisance for the rice farmers of eastern and central China, but the invasive species has become big business for one city.
The traditional rural market, a unique cultural characteristic of Vietnam’s Northern provinces, will be on display to visitors at the Vietnamese Ethnic Groups Culture-Tourism Village in Son Tay district, Hanoi from October 16-18.
We hope the government’s newly established TPP task force will not disappoint by coming up with measures focusing only on agricultural protection. It is essential that it consider how to utilize the vast, envisioned free-trade area to develop our economy.
Stripped of government protection, farmers across Japan fear their livelihoods and communities could collapse once they are exposed to cut-throat foreign competition when the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal takes effect.
The flood disaster in Myanmar since June has brought the death toll nationwide to 88 and affected more than 330,000 people across the nation, prompting a state of emergency for urgent relief efforts.
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